Chapter Summaries

Vic spent a month training and helping Ace while Garp’s warship hunted pirates around East Blue. When Garp urgently summoned the crew for a mission tied to a possible powerful figure, Vic and the others rushed to the warship and set sail.

• Vic treated Luffy to meat at Makino’s tavern and sensed Garp’s Dog-Head Warship returning to Foosha Village.
• Garp’s crew reported that they had been searching East Blue while destroying newly formed pirate crews, and Rebecca privately told Vic that Garp seemed to be looking for something.
• Over the next month, Vic trained and joined Garp in sinking pirate ships with cannon fire; he also taught Ace physical training techniques whenever he visited Dadan’s hideout.
• A Marine delivered Garp’s urgent order while Vic was treating Luffy, and Vic, Rebecca, and the others swiftly left the tavern for the warship.
• Garp said they had only a lead on a possible opponent, then ordered the assembled crew to depart aboard the prepared Dog-Head Warship.

Garp led the Dog-Head Warship on a search for a powerful older-generation pirate, but the trail took them into the Calm Belt toward Vic’s mysterious island. When a massive island fell toward the warship, Vic destroyed it with lightning, while Garp revealed that he had been trying to force their hidden target out.

• Vic told Rebecca that Garp’s target was likely a powerful pirate with strong helpers and warned her to be careful.
• After nearly half a month of fruitless patrols, Garp ordered the Dog-Head Warship into the Calm Belt, where Vic realized they were heading toward the mysterious island.
• Half a day from the island, Garp and Vic spotted a massive island hurtling toward the warship, and Garp murmured that their target had finally acted.
• Vic transformed into lightning and enveloped the falling island in bolts until it vanished, then reformed above the warship.

Vic destroyed the islands Golden Lion Shiki sent toward Garp’s warship, and Shiki revealed his plan to rebuild the Flying Pirates and destroy the East Blue. Garp prepared to confront his old rival, but Vic volunteered to fight Shiki while Rebecca and the others handled his subordinates.

• Vic used the Rumble-Rumble Fruit to destroy an island Shiki had sent toward the warship, and Shiki appeared with more floating islands and his crew.
• Shiki revealed that he planned to raise powerful savage beasts and release them in the East Blue as part of his ambition to rule the world.
• Garp told Shiki he had learned of his plans and intended to send him back to Impel Down, explaining that Vic’s speed made escape difficult.
• Vic realized Garp had brought him to the East Blue to help stop Shiki, then offered to fight Shiki while Garp stayed back and Rebecca and the others faced the crew.
• Wendy learned that Shiki had been responsible for the islands that threatened her before, and Rebecca comforted her while promising revenge.

Vic fought Golden Lion on the floating island while Rebecca, Wendy, and Barnett confronted Golden Lion’s officers. Golden Lion recovered from Vic’s opening strike and attacked from the air, leaving their duel underway.

• Vic warned his allies to stay alert, then rushed Golden Lion and knocked him back with a strike from his Haki-coated swords.
• Golden Lion’s officers were stunned by Vic’s speed, while Garp observed the fight from the warship and noted how losing his legs had weakened Golden Lion.
• Rebecca assigned Wendy to fight Indigo and Barnett to face Scarlet, while she took on Golden Lion’s other officers.
• Golden Lion admitted Vic was strong but challenged his experience, then took to the air and sent controlled flying slashes at him.

Vic battled Golden Lion in the air above an island while Garp protected the warship below from falling debris and Sea Kings. Golden Lion changed tactics and sent waterspouts at Vic, exploiting his Devil Fruit weakness to seawater.

• Vic deflected Golden Lion's Flying Slashes, sending island fragments toward the Dog-Head Warship.
• Garp smashed the falling fragments before they could hit the warship and frightened the giant Sea Kings into retreating.
• Vic used his speed to close in on Golden Lion and kept attacking him relentlessly for half an hour.
• Golden Lion raised earth pillars with Lion's Might: Earth Roll, but Vic cut them apart and destroyed later waves with lightning.
• Golden Lion used Lion's Might: Sea Twister to send waterspouts at Vic, whose Devil Fruit body was weakened by the seawater.

Vic escaped Golden Lion’s seawater trap by freezing it and shattered the ice, then charged into close combat while worrying about Golden Lion’s Conqueror’s Haki. The chapter ended with Vic slashing at Golden Lion’s neck with both blades, empowered by Ryuo.

• Golden Lion trapped Vic inside a shrinking ball of seawater and considered how to use or kill him.
• Vic endured the seawater for more than twenty minutes, relying on his breath-holding ability and Life Return.
• Vic used Swordsmanship of Ice to freeze the water ball, then shattered it and broke free.
• Vic flew toward Golden Lion with advanced Geppo and prepared a powerful attack with Haki flowing over Allen and Blood Wither.
• Vic worried that Golden Lion might use Conqueror’s Coating, then slashed both blades toward his neck.

Vic fought Golden Lion in the air, using his Ryuo-coated swords to overwhelm the older pirate and make him cough blood. Golden Lion tried to recruit Vic and questioned his origins, while Vic provoked him and remained wary of a possible trick.

• Golden Lion recognized the Ryuo on Vic’s swords and offered to make him his right-hand man and rule the world together.
• Vic rejected Golden Lion’s ambition, continued attacking, and forced him to defend as their Haki-clad weapons clashed in the air.
• Vic’s repeated sword strikes caused Golden Lion’s internal injuries to worsen until he spat blood and retreated.
• Golden Lion wondered how Vic had become so powerful at a young age and asked whether Garp had found him in the New World.
• Vic claimed he had been born in the East Blue and joked that he became a Marine to avoid being beaten by Garp, hoping to provoke Golden Lion into an opening.

Vic provoked Golden Lion by defending the East Blue, prompting Golden Lion to attack him with Conqueror's Coating. Vic struggled to withstand the assault and was left badly injured and close to losing consciousness.

• Vic told Golden Lion that the East Blue was not weak, citing Roger and Garp as proof.
• Golden Lion charged at Vic and used Conqueror's Coating on his swords.
• Vic blocked Golden Lion's first coated attack, though its force disrupted his body and mind.
• Golden Lion launched a full-strength assault, piercing Vic's Armament Haki with the power of Conqueror's Coating.
• Vic coughed up blood, suffered serious internal injuries, and neared unconsciousness as Golden Lion kept attacking.

Golden Lion overwhelmed Vic with Conqueror's Coating and left him badly wounded, but an episode caused Golden Lion to charge into Vic's counterattack. Vic stabbed him with Blood Wither, and Golden Lion recovered and prepared another attack.

• Golden Lion shattered Vic's Haki defense and slashed his chest, sending him crashing into a mountainside.
• Rebecca, Wendy, and Barnett watched helplessly as Vic lay wounded, while Garp waited nearby for a chance to intervene.
• Vic reflected on Conqueror's Coating and realized he could not withstand another attack in his condition.
• Golden Lion's lightning vanished as he suffered a mental episode, and Vic seized the opening to stab him with Blood Wither.
• Golden Lion mistook Vic for someone slaughtering a chicken and warned him about his hemorrhoids before coming to his senses and readying another Conqueror's Coating attack.

Vic killed Golden Lion, whose death caused the floating islands to fall into the sea. Back aboard Garp’s warship, Vic gave Golden Lion’s Float-Float Fruit to Rebecca and told her to eat it.

• Vic pulled Blood Wither from Golden Lion and struck him with a Haki-infused slash, sending him crashing into an island.
• Golden Lion died, and the islands in the sky began to fall as Garp ordered the marines to row the warship to safety.
• Garp’s warship escaped the falling islands, and Rebecca and the others returned aboard before Vic came back carrying two swords and a Devil Fruit.
• Vic offered the Float-Float Fruit to Garp, then gave it to Rebecca when Garp refused to eat it.
• Rebecca worried that the others would mock her for eating a Devil Fruit, and Vic told her to fight anyone weaker who laughed and to eat the whole fruit.

Vic returned to Foosha Village to recover and later came back to Makino’s tavern, where Luffy’s discovery of a Golden Den Den Mushi revealed that the village was in danger. Vic took the device from Luffy and explained that pressing its button would summon a Buster Call to destroy the Goa Kingdom.

• Vic gave the Golden Lion’s swords, Kogarashi and Oto, to Wendy and Barnett, urging them to train so they could defend the weapons.
• Garp took Vic to Foosha Village to recover, and Vic later went to the mysterious island and seized the mysterious fruit.
• Three days later, Vic returned to Makino’s tavern and found Luffy and Ain arguing over what Den Den Mushi ate.
• Vic saw the Golden Den Den Mushi in Luffy’s hands and snatched it away, then learned Luffy had found it in Garp’s room.
• Vic confirmed that Luffy had not pressed the button and warned Rebecca, Wendy, and the others that it would launch a Buster Call against the Goa Kingdom.

Vic returned Garp’s Golden Den Den Mushi and prepared to sail for the New World, where he would reunite with Gion and the other Marines. Garp told Vic that he could soon become a Headquarters Vice Admiral, but an exceptional promotion to Admiral would require an extraordinary achievement.

• Vic decided not to use the Golden Den Den Mushi and brought it back to Garp near Dadan’s hideout.
• Garp scolded Ace for getting distracted during a fight with a giant monkey, and Vic criticized Garp for leaving the Den Den Mushi unattended.
• Garp said they would set sail the next day to meet Gion, Tokikake, and the others in the New World.
• Vic watched Ace fight, then gave him pointers and sparred with him using one hand.
• Garp told Vic that his victory over Shiki had earned him enough merit for promotion to Headquarters Vice Admiral, while becoming an Admiral soon would require capturing a pirate on Kaido’s level or another exceptional feat.

Garp explained that Vic needed a major achievement soon to advance to Marine Admiral, then promised to train him to handle Conqueror’s Coating. After returning to his quarters, Vic received a late-night visit from Rebecca.

• Garp warned Vic that once Aokiji and the other candidates became Admirals, Vic might be stuck as a Vice Admiral for many years.
• Vic asked Garp to teach him how to counter Conqueror’s Coating and worried that he lacked the potential to awaken Conqueror’s Haki.
• Garp assured Vic that the fight against Golden Lion did not prove he lacked that potential and agreed to train him against Conqueror’s Coating.
• Vic asked Garp more about Haki and reflected on how their training and combat experience shaped their strength.
• Rebecca knocked on Vic’s door and came into his quarters late at night.

Rebecca asked Vic how to develop the Float-Float Fruit, and he advised her to explore its gravity-related powers while continuing to train her Haki and swordsmanship. He left her imagining a future technique in which she controlled ten thousand flying swords.

• Rebecca visited Vic late at night to ask for guidance on developing the Float-Float Fruit.
• Vic suggested that the fruit could increase gravity as well as make objects float, and warned Rebecca not to neglect Haki or swordsmanship.
• Rebecca admitted that improving her Haki was slow, and Vic told her it would improve quickly once they reached the New World.
• Vic proposed that Rebecca use the Float-Float Fruit to control ten thousand swords and coat them with Haki.
• Rebecca pictured the flying swords blanketing the sky and was stunned by the possibility.

Vic explained how Rebecca could develop the Float-Float Fruit and imagined her future as the Marine Vice Admiral known as the Ten Thousand Swords Witch. He promised to make her a case and specially designed flying swords, then sent her from his room as he continued recovering.

• Vic told Rebecca to practice controlling more flying swords and imagined her awakening the Float-Float Fruit and becoming a feared Marine Vice Admiral.
• Rebecca asked why the swords needed to be specially made, and Vic explained that hiltless blades would work better as flying swords and fit more easily in a case.
• Rebecca agreed that specially made swords were better and asked Vic to make them; he promised to build her a case and produce flying swords in batches.
• Vic considered the materials needed for thousands of swords and decided they would make them gradually, coating most in Haki rather than pursuing costly high-grade materials.
• Rebecca lingered after asking about her fruit, but Vic pushed her out because his injuries had not fully healed; his room light went out as Foosha Village grew quiet.

Vic bought materials on the way to Reverse Mountain and began forging a sword aboard the Dog-Head Warship. He revealed a fabricated storage ability to explain how he carried the metal, then melted and combined two blocks as Rebecca and the others watched.

• The Dog-Head Warship left Foosha Village and headed for Reverse Mountain with Garp and the others aboard.
• Vic left the warship at a prosperous island, bought sword-forging materials for Rebecca, and returned using Garp's Vivre Card.
• Vic pretended that his Rumble-Rumble Fruit powers let him store metal inside his body, concealing his dimensional space from Rebecca, Barnett, and the others.
• Vic carried the metal to the forward deck and told Garp to move so he could forge a sword.
• Vic heated two metal blocks until they melted, then pressed them together to combine them.

Vic used his Rumble-Rumble Fruit powers to forge more than thirty flying swords aboard the Dog-Head Warship. The swords were complete but still too hot to touch, and Garp mocked their unusual shape.

• Vic melted nine blocks of metal together and refined the combined mass with lightning.
• Vic shaped the metal into more than thirty sword blanks and embedded them in a wooden board.
• Vic used lightning to polish the blanks into smooth, gleaming flying swords and warned Rebecca not to touch them until they cooled.
• Rebecca suggested quenching the swords in water, but Vic explained that doing so would damage their structure.
• Garp laughed at the finished swords and mocked Vic because they had no guards or hilts to grip.

Vic made Rebecca a sword case for her flying swords, and she began learning to control them with her Float-Float Fruit. After Rebecca tried riding one, Vic considered how to develop her sword-riding style further, while Wendy asked about the Devil Fruit Vic had promised her.

• Vic planned and made Rebecca a sword case that could hold several rows of flying swords.
• Rebecca launched a flying sword and struck down a large foolish vulture that fell onto the warship’s deck.
• Vic told Rebecca to practice controlling multiple swords, while Rebecca insisted she would improve.
• Rebecca rode a flying sword through the sky to train her control over objects.
• Wendy asked Vic about the Devil Fruit suited to her, and Vic said he would retrieve it when the opportunity was right.
• Barnett praised the potential of Rebecca’s Float-Float Fruit and reflected on the growing gap between their abilities.

Vic explained how Rebecca could develop the Float-Float Fruit by controlling vast numbers of flying swords, and Barnett grasped the potential of her pairing with the power. Rebecca returned to the warship with a new defensive technique, while Garp asked Vic to cook the Stupid Vulture.

• Vic told Barnett that Devil Fruit abilities could be developed in different ways and encouraged him to keep exploring the Replenish-Replenish Fruit.
• Barnett explained that Rebecca could use the Float-Float Fruit to control many flying swords, potentially turning them into an overwhelming attack.
• Vic reasoned that Rebecca could eventually launch thousands of swords if she awakened the fruit, since controlling many small objects would differ from Golden Lion's control of massive objects.
• Garp asked Vic to cook the Stupid Vulture, and Vic agreed despite teasing Garp about the creature's foolishness.
• Rebecca returned on a flying sword with more than a dozen blades circling her, then demonstrated a shimmering defensive formation before the swords returned neatly to her sword case.

Rebecca practiced her Float-Float Fruit powers while Vic encouraged her to develop them and asked her to work toward making the Dog-Head Warship fly. Vic then trained with Seastone Handcuffs to overcome his Devil Fruit weakness, drawing Garp’s praise and hopes for his future as a Marine leader.

• Rebecca returned to the warship after demonstrating her flying-sword technique, and Wendy excitedly praised her while Barnett focused on getting stronger.
• Vic praised Rebecca for applying her ideas independently, and she continued practicing her powers while eating lunch.
• Vic asked Rebecca whether she could make the Dog-Head Warship fly, and she said she was determined to learn how.
• Vic trained on deck while wearing Seastone Handcuffs so that losing his elemental powers would not leave him weak or slow.
• Garp praised Vic’s self-awareness and discipline and said he hoped Vic would someday become Fleet Admiral.