Chapter Summaries

After the group discussed how their experiences had changed their view of the world, Vic urged them to grow stronger while thinking carefully before confronting the World Government’s powerful allies. The others found renewed resolve, and Vic ended the gathering by asking Frodeku for the Lunar Eclipse so he could replace its scabbard.

• Vic warned the group that Rebecca’s sense of justice could lead them into conflict with the Celestial Dragons and urged her to consider the consequences before acting.
• Barnett reflected that the group’s survival had depended on their own strength, while Frodeku decided that following Vic was his best course.
• Vic encouraged everyone to recover and turn the day’s ordeal into motivation, and he told Wendy to have the ship’s doctor examine her injuries.
• Rebecca declared that she would become strong enough to do whatever she wanted, and Vic told her she would also need the resolve to endure failure.
• Wendy and Rebecca spoke about their determination to keep improving, and Vic asked Frodeku for the Lunar Eclipse so he could get it a new scabbard.

Vic made a new scabbard for Lunar Eclipse and discussed with Zephyr how someone had secretly arranged their mission to the island. Zephyr feared the plot was meant to expose the Marines’ actions and drive them into conflict with the World Government, while Vic remained unconcerned about the hidden schemer.

• Vic crafted a pitch-black scabbard for Lunar Eclipse from black ironwood and rejected the concealed blade in the old scabbard as an underhanded weapon.
• Vic thanked Zephyr for guiding him and the others, and Zephyr recalled that an unknown person had diverted their warship onto the island’s route.
• Zephyr explained that a messenger claimed a colonel assigned the mission, but the colonel denied giving the order and had been found unconscious.
• Zephyr suggested the schemer had anticipated how Rebecca, Vic, and their united squad would respond to the crisis, while Vic argued the person was not a serious threat.
• Zephyr warned that revealing the truth about the incident could make the World Government wary of the Marines and eventually set them against each other.

Vic and his crew began a new day as Frodeku received the scabbard Vic had made for Lunar Eclipse, and Vic discussed Wendy’s recovery and Haki training with Barnett. The chapter ended with Rebecca playfully putting Vic in a headlock while Ain slapped Rebecca on the butt.

• Vic wondered whether a mysterious figure opposed to the Celestial Dragons was behind recent events, while Zephyr remained deep in thought.
• Rebecca teased Wendy and Konan about their red faces after they shared a room, and Wendy denied doing anything unusual.
• Frodeku praised the black ironwood scabbard Vic had made and named the sword Lunar Eclipse.
• Barnett told Vic that Wendy’s wound had healed and that she had awakened Observation Haki, and Vic encouraged Barnett to prepare to awaken Haki.
• Rebecca accused Vic of talking behind Wendy’s back, jumped onto his back, and threatened him with playful tortures and a beauty trap.
• Ain grew jealous of Rebecca clinging to Vic and slapped Rebecca on the butt.

Wendy collapsed with a dangerously high fever aboard the training ship, while the Five Elders discussed the Flower Kingdom incident and ordered a secret investigation into Vic. The chapter left Wendy awaiting the ship's doctor and the World Government watching Vic as a possible future threat.

• Rebecca accidentally shook off Ain, then scooped her up and comforted her.
• Wendy collapsed on deck, and Vic found that she had a dangerously high fever.
• Vic carried Wendy to the dormitory while Rebecca went to get ice and Barnett fetched the ship's doctor.
• Vic suspected Wendy's injuries or exposure to the fireworks might have caused an unusual reaction, but told Ain to wait for the doctor before using her ability.
• The Five Elders debated the losses in the Flower Kingdom and whether Vic knew the World Government's secrets.
• The Five Elders ordered Cipher Pol to investigate the incident secretly and instructed Kong to keep the training warship from leaving.

Wendy was diagnosed with the Black Death, a terminal disease with no known treatment, and Ethan warned that those who had been near her might be infected. Vic wanted to take her to the Drum Kingdom for treatment, but Zephyr explained that orders and unfinished business meant the warship could not leave.

• Ethan diagnosed Wendy with the Black Death and warned that it could spread through blood, so he drew blood from everyone and took Lunar Eclipse for testing.
• Barnett blamed Lao Si for infecting Wendy, and Vic asked Frodeku to have Lao Si's sword examined for Yersinia.
• Vic told Zephyr that Wendy needed immediate treatment and suggested taking her to the Drum Kingdom.
• Zephyr said the warship could not leave because he had to witness the World Government's arrival, finish business on the island, and meet the Red Hair Pirates at Twin Cape.

Wendy woke after collapsing from the Black Death, and her friends tried to reassure her while planning to take her to doctors in the Drum Kingdom. Zephyr learned the World Government would hold the warship until its people arrived, so he arranged for one person to take Wendy by another boat as the others continued their route.

• Vic urged Zephyr to seek permission before leaving him behind, and Zephyr went to contact headquarters.
• Wendy briefly woke but remained too weak to speak, while Vic and her friends promised she would recover.
• Konan arrived and learned that Wendy's companions considered her their friend.
• Zephyr told them the World Government had barred the warship from leaving until its people arrived, and he said one person could take Wendy toward Drum Island by another boat.
• Rebecca and Barnett considered accompanying Wendy, but Wendy looked toward Vic, leaving Rebecca jealous and Barnett bewildered.

Vic prepared to take Wendy to Drum Island for treatment after the ship's doctor found no Yersinia Bacterium in the group or on Lunar Eclipse. As the boat was readied, Rebecca named her sword Aizen, and Vic set off with Wendy while promising to reunite with the others.

• Vic agreed to take Wendy to Drum Island and asked Zephyr to spare Shanks if he encountered the Red Hair Pirates.
• Vic comforted Rebecca, who was upset about their impending separation, and named her sword Aizen.
• Ethan reported that nobody had Yersinia Bacterium in their blood and that the blade was clean, so Vic suspected Lao Si's scabbard concealed the source.
• Vic and Zephyr prepared a boat with supplies, an Eternal Pose for Drum Island, and Zephyr's Vivre Card.
• Rebecca, Barnett, and Frodeku brought Wendy and her belongings aboard, and Vic urged them to return to the warship while he hurried to Drum Island with Wendy.

Vic and Ain restored Wendy to health temporarily so she could say goodbye to everyone, then Vic set off alone to take her by boat toward Drum Island. After half a day of towing the boat, Ain's ability wore off and Wendy's illness returned, leaving Vic worried about her fever.

• Ain reversed Wendy's condition to how it had been a week earlier, and Wendy said goodbye to Rebecca, Barnett, and the others.
• Vic left Wendy in Zephyr's care, tied the small boat to himself, and pulled it away from the warship toward Drum Island.
• Rebecca and Ain called after Vic as he sped across the sea, while Wendy watched him leave and returned to bed.
• Half a day later, Ain's ability wore off, and Wendy's illness and high fever returned.
• Vic covered Wendy with a blanket, checked her forehead, and worried that her temperature remained dangerously high.

Vic raced toward Drum Island with the feverish Wendy while caring for her. When a wounded sea beast led a pirate ship to his boat, Vic freed it and confronted the pirates, ending with their captain's punch swallowed by a cloud of dust.

• Vic changed Wendy's ice, fed her Sea King bone broth, and hurried toward Drum Island while she grew delirious and fell unconscious.
• A harpooned white sea beast dragged a pirate ship around Vic's boat, and Vic learned it had sought his help.
• The pirate captain and his crew plotted to capture Vic and sell him, so Vic used Geppo to board their ship and Rankyaku to cut the harpoon ropes.
• Vic offered the captain three moves, and the captain charged and punched him as his crew assumed Vic had been defeated.

Vic defeated a pirate captain whose attacks could not hurt him, captured the captain in his extradimensional space, and destroyed the pirate ship. As he continued toward Drum Island, the sea beast he had saved followed his boat, still carrying a harpoon in its fin.

• The tall captain’s first punch failed to hurt Vic, and his underlings convinced themselves that their boss was holding back.
• The captain transformed into a giant black gorilla and struck Vic again, but the blow still had no effect.
• Vic grabbed the gorilla’s arm, punched him with a black-and-red-coated fist, and put the bleeding captain into his extradimensional space.
• Vic used Geppo to return to his boat, split the pirate ship in two with a wind blade, and continued swimming toward Drum Island.
• The sea beast with a harpoon lodged in its dorsal fin followed Vic’s boat and repeatedly disrupted its progress with its leaps.
• Vic warned the sea beast not to push him, and it raised its head and bobbed it in apology.

Vic freed a giant white dolphin from pirate harpoons, and it repaid him by pulling his boat toward Drum Island while he cared for the unconscious Wendy. He stored the defeated pirate captain's Zoan Gorilla Fruit and ended the chapter watching over Wendy as Xiaobai kept to their course.

• Vic removed the harpoons from the giant dolphin, which nodded goodbye before diving underwater.
• The dolphin returned and offered to pull Vic's boat, so Vic harnessed it and directed it toward Drum Island.
• Vic threw the defeated pirate captain into the sea, took his Zoan Gorilla Fruit, and stored it in his extradimensional space.
• Vic named the dolphin Xiaobai, fed it roasted Sea King meat, and resumed preparing soup for Wendy.
• Vic fed Wendy soup, checked her condition, and meditated beside her while periodically making sure Xiaobai stayed on course.

As Rebecca and the others waited for a chance to find Vic, he continued sailing with the unconscious Wendy when a violent storm struck. Vic fought to protect their small boat from enormous raindrops, but the storm clouds remained overhead as the chapter ended.

• Rebecca, Ain, Barnett, and Frodeku discussed when they would leave to find Vic and worried about the dangers ahead.
• Vic meditated and trained beside Wendy, who remained unconscious on the boat.
• Enormous raindrops began crashing down, and Vic secured Wendy while Xiaobai dodged the falling drops and towering waves.
• Vic used his swords to cut apart the drops threatening the boat until the rain stopped.
• Vic kept his swords ready as dark storm clouds, lightning, and thunder remained over the sea.

Vic protected Wendy and their boat from a storm of lightning and hail, then drew every thunderbolt toward the Divine Staff. The staff became the center of an enormous funnel of lightning as the storm continued over the sea.

• Vic split the giant hailstones with Sword Gang while Xiaobai kept the boat afloat beneath him.
• Vic sent Xiaobai into the deep sea and arranged harpoons around the boat to conduct lightning away from Wendy.
• Vic sat at the bow with Blood Wither and Allen, enduring the lightning while the boat remained unharmed.
• Vic took out the Divine Staff, and the thunderbolts converged on it to form a gigantic funnel of electricity.

Vic escaped a series of falling islands by slicing them apart, then suspected Kaido was behind the attacks. The story shifted to Drum Island, where armed pirates were marching a group of bound doctors through the snow.

• Vic put away the Divine Staff, gathered the harpoons, and rushed to free Wendy after Xiaobai warned him of danger.
• Vic cut a falling landmass in two with a Sword Gang, and Xiaobai pulled the boat onward toward Drum Island.
• Vic split a larger falling island with One-Sword Style: Iai and accused Kaido of causing the attacks, but more islands fell without Kaido appearing.
• At Drum Island, a group of armed pirates led by a towering man marched two lines of bound doctors along a snowy path.

Double Axe and his pirates kidnapped a group of doctors and used them as hostages to evade Dalton and the Drum Kingdom guard. As they reached their ship, an old doctor challenged the pirates’ claim that the doctors would be better off working abroad.

• Double Axe ordered his men to keep the bald old man, who claimed he was not a doctor, with the captured doctors.
• A guard reported that Dalton was pursuing the pirates, and Double Axe chose to use the doctors as hostages rather than fight him directly.
• Dalton and his soldiers caught up, but the pirates surrounded the doctors and held Dalton back with threats against their lives.
• At the waterway, Dalton demanded that the pirates release the doctors, while the blade-wielding lackey argued that the doctors’ talents were being wasted in Drum Kingdom.
• An old man with a long white beard and a red-cross hat insisted that the doctors could advance medicine and teach future generations at home.

Dalton struggled to save about forty doctors held hostage by Double Axe’s pirates, who demanded that he sacrifice a limb. After his soldiers stopped his first attempt, Dalton transformed and charged, but the pirates threatened a doctor, forcing him to turn his saw blade on his own left hand again.

• Double Axe’s subordinate offered to release ten doctors if Dalton cut off one of his limbs, while the hostages urged him to leave and protect Drum Island.
• The subordinate threatened to sell the doctors as slaves, including to the Celestial Dragons, and Dalton drew his saw blade to cut off his left hand.
• Dalton’s soldiers pinned him down and begged him not to sacrifice himself, but he transformed into a minotaur and charged at Double Axe.
• Double Axe seized a doctor and raised his axe, so Dalton stopped and swung his saw blade at his own left hand.
• Double Axe halted his attack too, since the doctors were valuable hostages, and Dalton remained poised to sacrifice himself for their freedom.

Vic arrived on Drum Island carrying Wendy and asked the doctors to treat her. After killing the pirates who held the doctors hostage, he faced Double Axe’s attack and protected himself with Armament Haki Hardening.

• Vic emerged from the fog with Wendy tied to his back and asked the doctors to examine her.
• Vic offered to defeat the pirates so the doctors could treat Wendy, then killed the pirates holding the doctors hostage with throwing knives.
• Double Axe survived Vic’s attack by blocking a knife, but trembled as Vic carried Wendy toward the doctors.
• Double Axe attacked Vic from behind with his great axe, and Vic hardened his body with Armament Haki, shattering the axe on his head.

Vic defeated Double Axe and sought help for Wendy, whose illness appeared to be the Black Death. When the doctors admitted they could not cure it, Vic left with the bald old man, hoping he could help.

• Double Axe shattered both axes against Vic, who killed him with a Haki-coated strand of hair.
• Vic told the freed doctors that another doctor had diagnosed Wendy with the Black Death and asked them to examine her.
• The doctors said Wendy likely had the Black Death but could not treat it if the diagnosis was confirmed.
• Vic secured Wendy on his back and started to leave after learning the doctors had no cure.
• Dalton offered to seek help from the king, but Vic said he needed only the bald old man and flew away with him.

Vic brought the critically ill Wendy to Dr. Kureha, who confirmed she could treat the Black Death but demanded that Vic stay on Drum Island for three years. Vic refused because he was a navy soldier and asked her to name another condition.

• Vic carried a frightened bald old man to a tree house on Drum Island, hoping its resident doctor could help Wendy.
• Dr. Kureha opened the door, saw Vic, and shut it again, but she came back after he called out that Wendy was dying.
• Vic told Dr. Kureha that Wendy had the Black Death, and she said she could treat it because the other doctors lacked the necessary ingredients.
• Vic and the little old man urged Dr. Kureha to save Wendy, but she threatened the old man after he called her little sister.
• Dr. Kureha agreed to treat Wendy if Vic stayed and lived with her for three years, but Vic refused and asked for another condition.

Vic negotiated with Dr. Kureha to treat Wendy without requiring him to stay on the island, promising her a favor in return. Kureha began treating Wendy while Vic and Dr. Tsukimi settled into her treehouse.

• Dr. Tsukimi told Kureha that Vic had defeated the pirates who kidnapped dozens of doctors and urged her to save Wendy.
• Kureha reduced her demand from Vic staying for a year to Wendy staying with her for three years, but Vic refused to decide Wendy’s freedom for her.
• Vic offered Kureha plum wine and promised her a favor, and she agreed to treat Wendy without making him stay.
• Kureha began treating Wendy and told Vic and Dr. Tsukimi to remain upstairs in the treehouse.
• Vic introduced himself to Dr. Tsukimi, who recognized him as the up-and-coming marine from the papers.