Chapter Summaries

Rebecca and Kanbo pushed their duel to greater speeds as Rebecca abandoned Observation Haki and fought on instinct. Meanwhile, Barnett endured Desukurei’s shifting tabletop world and continued toward him.

• Rebecca told Wendy that Barnett was on the table and kept attacking Kanbo, whose combat awareness let him narrowly evade her strikes.
• Wendy and Ain watched miniature Barnett, and Desukurei changed the tabletop desert into an ocean, then subjected Barnett to more hazardous terrain.
• Barnett survived the tabletop world’s changes by swimming and healing his injuries, while Wendy watched anxiously and Ain applauded.
• Kanbo copied Rebecca’s Soru after watching her use it and launched an attack that she blocked with her sword.
• Rebecca matched Kanbo’s speed and fought without relying on Observation Haki, letting instinct guide her movements as their duel grew more dangerous.

Rebecca fought Kanbo, who had been hiding his strength, and wounded him badly before he revealed his left-handed swordsmanship and Flying Slash. Rebecca blocked his attacks and judged them roughly equal, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Rebecca used instinctive reactions and close-range attacks to wound Kanbo and disable his right arm.
• Kanbo revealed that he was a Two-Sword Style swordsman who was stronger with his left hand, then used Soru to attack Rebecca.
• Rebecca won their blade clash with her two-handed grip and strength, sending Kanbo flying.
• Kanbo unleashed a Flying Slash, and Rebecca blocked it while being driven back more than ten meters.
• The Elite Camp spectators discussed the fight as Rebecca and Kanbo continued exchanging attacks without a clear winner.

Rebecca defeated Kanbo but spared him after learning he had only recently joined the Round Table Pirates and had no bounty. Vic returned as Barnett remained trapped inside Desukurei’s rule-based Round Table World, and Vic explained that breaking the ability would require another rule-based power or powerful Armament Haki.

• Rebecca beat Kanbo and spared him after learning he had become a pirate less than a month earlier and still had no bounty.
• Kanbo explained that Desukurei had trapped and tortured him, then promised to free him if he served as an enforcer for a year; Rebecca urged him to return to bounty hunting, and he left.
• Rebecca told Wendy she had spared Kanbo because he had principles, and Wendy teased Rebecca before Rebecca took Ain from her.
• A young man criticized Rebecca for letting Kanbo go, but Vic threatened him and then joined Rebecca and Wendy.
• Vic looked at Desukurei’s Round Table World and explained that another rule-based ability or sufficiently strong Armament Haki could break it, while Barnett remained trapped inside.

Barnett fought Desukurei inside the round table world, adapting to its changing rules and gaining the upper hand. Desukurei revealed his willingness to fight dirty, but Barnett dodged his knife and struck him hard in the chest.

• Barnett reached Desukurei after enduring the round table’s ordeals and kicked him away with Soru.
• Barnett realized Desukurei could change the world’s rules, then charged and punched him when Soru stopped working.
• Desukurei imposed a rule restricting speed, but Barnett caught up and slapped him repeatedly.
• Desukurei created turn-based combat, hit Barnett once, and was then kicked between the legs.
• Desukurei secretly slashed at Barnett’s throat with a knife, cutting his chest before lifting the restrictions and attacking again.
• Barnett dodged Desukurei’s knife and punched him in the chest, sending him stumbling backward.

Vic stopped Desukurei from taking Ain hostage by punching him out of sight, then returned with the others to the hot springs. Afterward, they headed back to the warship, where Zephyr prepared to leave.

• Desukurei dropped his round-table ability and lunged for Ain, but Vic punched him and made him vanish; the onlookers assumed Vic had used a Devil Fruit.
• Vic sent the crowd away and took the others to soak at Kurosawa's bathhouse, where the hot springs no longer drained his energy.
• Rebecca praised the hot springs, and Vic promised they could return once their unit could operate independently.
• Vic and the others reached the dock and told Zephyr about the springs' healing effects, but Zephyr said they were about to leave.

Barnett recounted the hardships that led him to join the Marines, including his family's life under a pirate crew's rule. He described finding his village burning and his family trapped inside, then ended his story as he fell into the sea badly wounded.

• Zephyr told Vic that Garp and Sengoku had asked him to stop provoking Sakazuki, while Zephyr made clear he supported Vic.
• Vic asked Barnett why pirates had angered him so much, and Barnett explained that his past had led him to become a Marine.
• Barnett described how his family had struggled to pay tribute to the pirate crew that controlled their New World island.
• Barnett said he hunted for food while his sister and younger brother tended crops, helping the family survive.
• Barnett returned from hunting to find pirates burning the village and guarding its exits, with his family crying inside locked houses.
• Barnett killed one pirate by stealth but was overwhelmed by the others and fell into the sea with serious injuries.

Barnett told Vic how pirates burned his family alive and explained that two rival crews had destroyed his village. Vic promised to pursue them in the New World, while the trainees gathered aboard the warship after the day's battles.

• Barnett recalled surviving the attack on his village, joining the Marines, and developing a painful reaction to memories of his family burning.
• Vic told Wendy to give Barnett water after he began steaming, and Barnett gradually recovered.
• Barnett explained that two pirate crews had fought over the island and that his village had been caught in their feud.
• Vic promised to hunt down both crews in the New World, and Barnett nodded as Wendy watched him.
• Vic teased Wendy for nearly stripping Barnett, who discovered she had torn his clothes and went to change.
• The Elite Camp trainees discussed the fights and Vic's attack as they returned to the warship and waited for Zephyr to depart.

Vic reflected on his alternate-dimension ring and prepared to test whether it could contain a Devil Fruit ability after its user died. He concealed the experiment from Rebecca and joked with her about changing the group’s dinner menu.

• Vic revealed that he had put the badly injured Desukurei inside his alternate dimension to see whether the Table-Table Fruit ability would reappear inside it when Desukurei died.
• Vic observed that Desukurei was still alive in the ring and recalled that he had also stored living animals and fresh fruit there.
• Vic considered how the ring might let him collect Devil Fruit abilities, while resolving to target only people who had committed evil deeds.
• Rebecca asked Vic what he was thinking, and Vic told her he was planning a tasty meal instead of explaining the experiment.
• Rebecca asked whether Vic would catch Sea Kings, and Vic teased her about letting them rest before asking if he should catch some later.

After the warship left the hot-spring island, Vic fed his companions and reflected on the dangers of the Grand Line. In his dimensional space, he killed Desukurei and obtained the Table-Table Fruit, believing his experiment had nearly confirmed a way to acquire Devil Fruits.

• Kanbo watched Zephyr and Vic leave aboard the warship, then boarded a passenger ship to escape the island.
• Zephyr told the trainees that their actions on the island would earn military merit that could affect their ranks and assignments after graduation.
• Vic prepared a feast of chicken, duck, pork, and beef, and his companions praised his cooking before returning to their cabins.
• Wendy looked back at Vic as she left but did not tell him what was troubling her.
• Vic killed Desukurei with a golden dagger and examined the Table-Table Fruit that appeared among the fresh fruit in his dimensional space.
• Vic concluded that his experiment to obtain a Devil Fruit user's power was nearly successful and needed only one final confirmation.

Vic continued training his Haki and nurturing his sword into a Black Blade while the Marine warship sailed toward Twin Cape. When Barnett reported that Shanks had appeared in the East Blue, Vic wondered whether they would meet again on the way back to the Grand Line.

• Vic decided against giving the Devil Fruit he had obtained from Desukurei to someone else and focused on training his Haki.
• Vic considered why powerful swordsmen pursued Black Blades and remained confident he could make one before the story began.
• Half a month passed, and the Elite Camp’s warship reached a point near the start of the Grand Line during its six-month sea training voyage.
• Barnett told Vic that Shanks had appeared in the East Blue, and Vic speculated that he was looking for Yasopp.
• Vic anticipated that Shanks would stop at Twin Cape to see Crocus and hoped their routes would cross again.

Vic and the others discussed Shanks’s rise from Roger’s apprentice to a respected pirate, while Vic speculated about Shanks’s origins and ties to Roger. The crew then learned that their next stop was Flower Island, a popular destination for couples, as Wendy remained quietly troubled.

• Barnett said the news had not explained why Red-Hair had visited, and Rebecca recalled how Vic and Shanks had staged a deadly-looking test to help her swordsmanship improve.
• Ain privately imagined using her fruit ability to stay young and win Vic’s affection, while Zephyr remarked that Shanks had been a promising child aboard Roger’s ship.
• Vic speculated that Shanks might have been a Celestial Dragon found at God Valley and suggested Roger had entrusted him with his will and knowledge.
• Barnett told Wendy that the crew’s next destination was Flower Island, a safe tourist spot known for lovers and its food, while Wendy appeared burdened.

Vic and the Elite Camp crew approached an island known for romance and tempting food, while Vic considered whether to intervene in the local gang’s affairs. As the warship neared shore, Rebecca and Ain both tried to arrange to explore the island with Vic.

• Vic decided he would investigate the gangsters’ conduct after landing and intervene if they were preying on civilians, while Zephyr chose to remain aboard the warship.
• Rebecca and Wendy admired the island’s pink-and-blue appearance and its reputation as a place for pledging love.
• Rebecca invited Vic ashore, but he said he was most interested in trying the island’s food.
• Vic told the others they could explore separately after landing, and Rebecca, Ain, and Wendy each announced whom they planned to accompany.

Vic and his companions landed on an island with blue soil, pink flowers, and a sweet-and-sour scent. As they headed inland, Vic noticed the bare fields and sensed that something about the island was unnatural.

• Barnett and Frodeku agreed to go into town together so Frodeku could buy a weapon, while Vic planned to explore with the others.
• Zephyr said he would stay aboard the warship because he was sleepy, and the ship docked at a busy pier.
• Vic noticed a Shipping King passenger ship at another pier and thought about the Underworld's possible ties to human trafficking.
• Rebecca and Wendy discovered that the island's bare coastal ground was blue, and Vic smelled sweetness and sourness coming from the soil.
• Vic examined the blue soil, then led the group inland past empty fields and wondered why they had been cleared.

Vic and the others reached a romantic sea of unfamiliar pink flowers, where Rebecca and Wendy admired the scenery and asked Vic what the flowers were. Vic compared them to spider lilies and began telling the group the tragic love story of Manju and Saka.

• Vic noticed that the people hauling carts along the road looked thin and listless despite wearing decent clothes, and wondered why.
• Vic and the others reached the edge of the pink sea of flowers, which divided the blue outer land from the island’s inner regions.
• Wendy and Rebecca admired the flowers and spoke of the romance of the couples among them.
• Vic examined the flowers, guessed they resembled spider lilies, and explained that he did not know their true name.
• Rebecca embraced the name spider lilies and imagined it symbolized lovers reaching the far shore of love.
• Vic recalled the tragic story of Manju and Saka and began recounting it to the group.

Vic told Rebecca and the others the tragic story of Manju and Saka, leaving Rebecca upset by their separation. He cheered her up by promising to paint her in the flower sea, and the group left amused by a couple’s quarrel and Rebecca’s suggestive response to Wendy’s teasing.

• Rebecca grieved over Manju and Saka’s fate, while Wendy silently watched the flowers and Ain imagined becoming the god who separated Vic and Rebecca.
• Vic offered to take Rebecca, Wendy, and Ain into the flower sea, and Barnett and Frodeku continued on toward town.
• Vic promised to paint Rebecca, quickly lifting her spirits.
• A nearby woman caught her partner staring at Rebecca and Wendy and slapped him repeatedly before dragging him away.
• Rebecca and Wendy laughed at the couple, then Wendy teased Rebecca about domestic violence and Rebecca told Vic she could accept being spanked.

Vic, Rebecca, Wendy, and Ain visited a flower field, where Rebecca tried to get closer to Vic before Ain interrupted them. Vic then surprised Rebecca by producing his painting supplies from beneath his cloak and prepared to paint their pose.

• Rebecca moved Vic’s hand from her head to her cheek and urged him to touch her face, leaving him flustered.
• Ain asked Vic to carry her, giving him an excuse to pull away from Rebecca, but Rebecca soon took Ain from him.
• Rebecca and Wendy posed with Ain among the flowers while Vic memorized the scene with a single glance.
• Vic dismissed the women after looking at them, then brought out his easel, canvas, and painting supplies from under his cloak.
• Rebecca searched Vic for the hidden supplies until his cough made her withdraw her hands.

Vic painted the sea of flowers while Rebecca, Wendy, and Ain visited Konan’s home and learned about her sick grandmother. Konan revealed that her grandmother had been ill for two years and that many elderly people on the island suffered from illnesses doctors could not identify.

• Vic began painting the scene in the sea of flowers from memory, astonishing Rebecca, Wendy, and Ain with his attention to detail.
• Rebecca took Wendy and Ain to explore while Vic continued painting, attracting the attention of several young women who gathered around him.
• Rebecca, Wendy, and Ain met Konan, who invited them to her cabin after they talked about the island and its changes.
• Konan’s grandmother coughed from a side room, and Rebecca sensed that she was gravely ill.
• Konan told the others that her grandmother had been sick for two years and that doctors could not identify her illness or those affecting many elderly people on the island.

Ain used her Devil Fruit ability to restore Konan’s sick grandmother to the condition she had been in two years earlier. The old woman felt much better, though Ain was left tired, and it remained unclear whether the effect would last.

• Ain offered to use her Devil Fruit ability to help Konan’s grandmother, and Rebecca and Wendy discussed the risks before Konan agreed.
• Konan brought Ain, Rebecca, and Wendy into the side room, where her grandmother described her incurable illness and condemned the royal family.
• The old woman consented to Ain’s attempt after Wendy explained that they were Marines and Ain promised she could at least ease her pain.
• Ain enveloped the old woman in pink flame with her ability, while Rebecca restrained Konan from rushing forward in alarm.
• The old woman sat up and said she felt as she had before becoming sick, while Rebecca caught the exhausted Ain.

Ain recovered enough to reveal that the island’s beautiful flower fields concealed a royal scheme of food control and addiction that trapped visitors. Rebecca vowed to seek Vic’s help, while an unseen crisis began to approach.

• Ain recovered her health, reunited with Konan, and warned Rebecca and Wendy not to eat the capital’s addictive local food.
• Ain revealed that the royal family forced islanders to grow Devil’s Flowers, controlled food rations, and used addictive dishes to ensnare visitors.
• Konan feared the royal family would discover Ain’s confession and punish their family, but Ain said she could no longer keep the truth secret.
• Rebecca promised to ask Vic for help and said he was a powerful trainee recruit, though Ain feared the recruits and Konan were now in danger.
• Vic continued painting among admiring visitors, unaware that trouble was approaching.

Rebecca told Vic about the island’s Devil’s Flower scheme, and Vic examined the flowers and soil while considering how to confront the royal family. Meanwhile, Barnett and Frodeku noticed the town’s crowds and became curious about the petal-based food.

• The old woman urged Konan to flee with Rebecca and the others, but Konan, Rebecca, and Wendy insisted they could defend themselves.
• Rebecca relayed the island’s secrets to Vic and warned that people might soon come to arrest them.
• Vic put away his painting supplies and examined the Devil’s Flowers and blue soil, concluding that the royal family relied on the flowers and imported food to control the island.
• Vic decided he needed to learn more from the king and considered the challenges of overthrowing the royal family and replacing its leadership.
• Barnett asked Frodeku what seemed strange about the town, and Frodeku pointed out the long lines for food made from the Devil’s Flower petals.