Chapter Summaries

Rebecca fought Crocodile and used her instincts to disrupt his Observation Haki, but her limited Armament Haki made it difficult to sustain the battle. After Crocodile thought her Haki had run out, Rebecca caught him off guard with a renewed Haki-coated strike, and he resumed fighting her at close range.

• Rebecca relied on instinct to evade Crocodile's attacks and slash him several times, forcing him to keep his distance.
• Crocodile used ranged attacks and movement to wear down Rebecca's Armament Haki, while Vic watched without intervening.
• Crocodile coated himself in Armament Haki and fought Rebecca at close range, but failed to land many attacks.
• Rebecca's Haki on Aizen faded, and Crocodile mistakenly believed she had exhausted her Armament Haki.
• Rebecca feinted exhaustion, struck Crocodile in the chest with a sudden Haki-coated attack, and pressed forward as he recovered and engaged her again.

Rebecca exhausted her Armament Haki while fighting Crocodile and was nearly killed when he attacked her. Vic arrived in time to save her and knocked Crocodile unconscious.

• Rebecca ran out of Armament Haki and searched for the Sand-Sand Fruit's weakness as Crocodile's attacks wore her down.
• Crocodile struck Rebecca with Sables, then prepared to kill her with Desert Spada while she was unable to move.
• Vic appeared between Rebecca and Crocodile, stopping the sand blade and warning Crocodile against harming one of his people.
• Crocodile roared at Vic, who vanished and punched him in the chest with an Armament Haki-coated fist.
• Vic sent Crocodile flying more than a hundred meters, and Crocodile lost consciousness.

Vic defeated Crocodile and brought him back to the royal palace with Rebecca, who recovered from the fight and heard Vic’s advice to value her life and grow stronger. The group reunited in Alubarna, where Rebecca began sharing her experiences and met Vivi, Chaka, and Pell.

• Vic waited for Rebecca to recover, then urged her to protect her life and keep getting stronger.
• Vic decided Crocodile could fill a Shichibukai position and found him still unconscious after knocking him out.
• Rebecca used her Float-Float Fruit powers to fly Vic and Crocodile back to the palace on flying swords.
• Vic and Rebecca landed in the training clearing, where Barnett, Chaka, and Pell saw them return with Crocodile.
• Ain introduced Rebecca to Vivi, Chaka, and Pell after Rebecca shared some of her experiences with them.

Vic captured Crocodile and offered him the position of Shichibukai, which Crocodile accepted to gain legal freedom to search Alabasta for Pluton. After Crocodile reached an agreement with Saint Saturn, Vic was told to pursue another target.

• Pell informed King Cobra and Igaram that Vic had captured Crocodile, and they came to learn the pirate's identity.
• Vic restrained the unconscious Crocodile with Seastone Handcuffs and kept him captive for three days.
• After Crocodile awoke, Vic showed him the Shichibukai conditions, and Crocodile agreed to cooperate with the World Government.
• Crocodile spoke with Saint Saturn through a special Den Den Mushi and agreed to cooperate with the government and Navy.
• Saint Saturn told Vic that Crocodile's agreement was settled and ordered him to look for his next target.

Vic forced Crocodile to accept restrictions in exchange for becoming a Shichibukai, including staying in Alabasta and protecting the country. He also made Crocodile promise not to use Haki against a future boy in a straw hat, then prepared to leave Alabasta the next day.

• Vic stopped Crocodile from leaving and threatened to kill him unless he accepted Vic’s conditions.
• Crocodile agreed to stay in Alabasta, protect it from pirates, and avoid disturbing its balance after becoming a Shichibukai.
• Vic ordered Crocodile not to use Haki against a future boy wearing a straw hat, threatening to kill him if he broke that promise.
• Crocodile agreed, left the royal palace, and flew away from Vic.
• After Chaka and Pell went to report the confrontation, Vic asked Rebecca to assist with his training and said they would leave Alabasta the next day.

Vic left Alabasta after Crocodile became a Shichibukai and traveled to the Sorbet Kingdom to look for Bartholomew Kuma. Meanwhile, Garp confronted Sengoku and Kong over Dark Dragon, and their clash of Conqueror's Haki knocked out Marines at headquarters.

• Cobra recognized the risks of the Shichibukai system but could only leave its consequences to time, then hosted a feast to thank Dark Dragon and his companions.
• Vic said goodbye to Cobra and Vivi, traveled back to the coast, and sailed away from Alabasta with his crew and provisions.
• Garp argued with Sengoku and Kong on Dark Dragon's behalf, and their competing bursts of Conqueror's Haki knocked out Marines throughout the headquarters building.
• A month later, Vic brought the warship to the Sorbet Kingdom and ordered the Marines to search for clues to Bartholomew Kuma's whereabouts.
• Vic recalled that Kuma and Ginny had lived in the country until an uprising five years earlier, after which they disappeared and were later connected to the Revolutionary Army.

Vic searched the Sorbet Kingdom for Bartholomew Kuma and learned that Kuma had once lived at a church there, but no one knew where he was now. King Bekori arrived and described Kuma as a criminal, while Vic ignored his flattery and questioned him about Kuma.

• Vic learned that Kuma had once lived at a church on the Sorbet Kingdom’s southern coast and went there with Rebecca and the others.
• Vic found the church empty but well kept, and civilians nearby whispered that Kuma and Ginny were good people whom the Marines should not arrest.
• Vic reassured Rebecca and the others that they should follow the justice in their own hearts, regardless of what civilians said about the Marines.
• Bekori arrived at the church, fawned over Vic, and invited him to the palace.
• Vic asked Bekori about Kuma, and Bekori said Kuma had joined the Revolutionary Army after escaping arrest and urged Vic to kill him if caught.

Vic drove Bekori away and used his search for Kuma to draw out Kuma’s friends, learning that Dragon was involved. After overhearing their call, Vic chose to wait for Kuma and Dragon rather than capture the two men.

• Vic threatened Bekori, who fled after falling and losing two teeth.
• Vic questioned Gyogyo and Totsu about Kuma, then announced that he would stay at the church and wait for him.
• Gyogyo and Totsu secretly called Kuma and warned him that Vic was searching for him.
• Kuma told his friends not to resist if Vic came for them and said he and Dragon would go to the Sorbet Kingdom.
• Vic overheard Dragon’s voice through Observation Haki and decided to keep waiting instead of taking the men hostage.

Vic met Kuma, Dragon, and Ginny on the beach and offered Kuma a chance to become a Shichibukai. Kuma refused, and Vic left him with a Den Den Mushi so he could personally reject Saturn, though Kuma told Vic to do it instead.

• Vic woke to find Kuma, Dragon, and Ginny had arrived on the beach, and he introduced himself and explained why he had come.
• Vic gave Kuma a paper with his proposal, while Dragon tried to recruit Vic into the Revolutionary Army and Ginny criticized Vic for threatening Gyogyo and Totsu.
• Kuma read the paper, and Ginny rejected Vic's offer on his behalf before Kuma confirmed he would not become a Shichibukai.
• Vic handed Kuma a Den Den Mushi and asked him to turn down Saturn, but Kuma refused to speak to Saturn and told Vic to reject him himself.

Vic tried to persuade Kuma to become a Shichibukai, but Saturn’s threats revealed Kuma and Ginny’s history as slaves of the Celestial Dragons. Dragon asked Kuma to show Vic the memories of that suffering, and Kuma began producing a memory bubble.

• Vic told Saturn that Kuma had refused the Shichibukai position, and Saturn threatened Kuma when he spoke to him directly.
• Vic ended the call after seeing Kuma tremble, then argued that Kuma would be a humane Shichibukai who could protect civilians.
• Ginny rejected Vic’s proposal and reminded him that Kuma would never serve the World Government.
• Dragon told Vic that Kuma and Ginny had been enslaved by the Celestial Dragons and urged Kuma to show Vic what had happened.
• Kuma used his Paw-Paw Fruit to push a large memory bubble out of his body.

Vic witnessed Kuma’s memories of slavery under the Celestial Dragons and revealed his plan to rise through the Marines so he could help turn them against their rulers. Dragon accepted Vic as an ally rather than recruiting him, and Vic offered to help the Revolutionary Army with its difficulties.

• Vic experienced Kuma’s memories of the abuse and deaths he had endured as a slave, and he wept as Kuma, Ginny, and Dragon watched.
• Dragon urged Vic to join the Revolutionary Army after showing him the Celestial Dragons’ atrocities.
• Vic explained that he intended to climb to the Fleet Admiral’s seat and lead the Marines in resisting the Celestial Dragons, declaring that his companions were allies of the Revolutionary Army.
• Dragon stopped trying to recruit Vic and asked him to recommend promising recruits who could not join the Marines.
• Vic asked what difficulties the Revolutionary Army faced and offered to find ways to help it obtain needed supplies and resources.

Vic told Dragon about Chinjao’s treasure beneath the Ice Continent as a potential source of funding for the Revolutionary Army, then asked Kuma to take him to places with special powers so he could train. Kuma agreed and transported Vic away, while Dragon and Ginny had already left.

• Vic explained that Chinjao’s treasure lay beneath the Ice Continent and advised Dragon to retrieve it discreetly.
• Dragon thanked Vic and left with Ginny, encouraged by the prospect of funding for the Revolutionary Army.
• Vic asked Kuma to take him to islands with special powers where he could train, and Kuma agreed.
• Vic told Barnett he would be gone for a few days, then Kuma transported him away from the beach.
• Saturn met with the other four in the Room of Authority at dawn.

Saturn and the other Elders planned to exploit Ginny and her future child to punish Kuma and force him into becoming a government-controlled cyborg. They also discussed how to test Vic’s loyalty and curb his attitude, then turned their attention to capturing Fisher Tiger.

• Saturn told the Elders that Kuma had refused the Shichibukai position and proposed making him suffer for defying the Celestial Dragons.
• Saturn explained that Kuma had grown up with Ginny in the Sorbet Kingdom and that both were now members of the Rebel Army.
• The Elders proposed abducting Ginny, infecting her and her child with Sapphire Scales, and using a promised cure to make Kuma obey them and undergo Vegapunk’s procedure.
• The Elders agreed that Saturn would oversee the plan, while keeping it flexible depending on Kuma’s feelings for Ginny and her child.
• The Elders discussed using the Holy Knights and the Reverie to humble Vic and test his loyalty before considering him for Marine Admiral.
• The Elders postponed decisions about Vic and moved on to discuss sending more troops to capture Fisher Tiger.

Kuma took Vic to several uninhabited islands with unusual conditions that could help him train. Vic tested the heavy water and compressed wind, then recorded the locations of the other islands for future use.

• Kuma showed Vic a South Blue lake whose water weighed more than a ton per drop, and Vic confirmed that he could use its pressure to train his Armament Haki.
• Vic entered the heavy water and found that he needed to coat his whole body in Armament Haki to withstand the lake's increasing pressure.
• Kuma took Vic to a North Blue island where wind compressed through a long rock passage struck with tremendous force, and Vic realized others could train by starting at the gentler entrance.
• Kuma brought Vic to several more unusual islands, including a freezing island, a scorching island, a poisonous pool, and a Seastone mountain, and Vic recorded their locations.

Vic discovered that Titan Island’s powerful gravity made it an ideal place to train, then returned with Kuma to the Sorbet Kingdom. Before leaving with his crew, Vic warned Bekori to stop exploiting the kingdom’s civilians.

• Vic recognized Titan Island and realized its increasing gravity could continuously temper his Armament Haki.
• Vic and Kuma returned to the Sorbet Kingdom, where Kuma asked Vic to protect the civilians because Kuma could not openly intervene.
• Vic confronted Bekori, threatened him over his treatment of the poor, and split a vast cloud with a sword slash to demonstrate his power.
• Bekori panicked and hid beneath quilts after Vic left the palace.
• Vic reunited with Rebecca and the others, ordered them aboard the warship, and told Barnett and the marines to explore the South Blue while he departed.

Rebecca and her companions traveled through the South Blue and into the Grand Line while Vic trained and later rejoined them. Vic then resumed helping the group improve their Haki and considered seeking scientists to build a gravity chamber aboard the warship.

• Vic trained at Heavy Water Lake while Rebecca and her companions sailed through the South Blue and searched for two Shichibukai candidates.
• Rebecca lost to both pirates, and Vic killed them after learning about their crimes.
• After a month and a half, Rebecca's warship crossed the Calm Belt, and she called Vic; he returned a week later after visiting Gion.
• Vic resumed Haki training with Rebecca and the others and considered asking Dr. Tsukimi or Vegapunk to develop a gravity field for the warship.
• The warship sailed toward the Florian Triangle, and Vic planned training for Wendy and Frodeku to help them awaken Armament Haki.

Vic helped Frodeku and Wendy awaken Armament Haki, leaving everyone on the team except Ain with both types of Haki. After Barnett recognized the danger of Vic’s technique, Vic considered using his Rumble-Rumble Fruit powers as a secret alternative for helping people awaken Haki.

• Vic stimulated Frodeku’s Haki with Ryuo, and Frodeku awakened Armament Haki after three days.
• Vic slowly stimulated Wendy’s Haki for more than half a month before she finally awakened Armament Haki.
• Barnett realized Vic could potentially use his technique to create many Haki users and asked how he had discovered it.
• Vic explained that he had developed the method through experimentation and warned that using it widely could expose it and disrupt the world’s balance of power.
• Vic decided to investigate whether his lightning powers could also stimulate Haki and provide a method only he could control.

Vic refused to let the Marines learn his method for awakening Haki, then responded to a distress call involving Fish-Men. He identified the attackers as the Sun Pirates and headed toward the battle, hoping to save Fisher Tiger while an old adversary suffered.

• Barnett suggested reporting Vic’s Haki training method to Marine headquarters, but Vic told him and the others to keep it secret.
• Barnett and the other Marines agreed to claim they had awakened Haki through hard training.
• A messenger reported that Marines were surrounded by Fish-Men and their warship was close to sinking.
• Vic suspected the Sun Pirates were responsible and decided to intervene because he wanted Fisher Tiger to live.
• Vic used his Rumble-Rumble Fruit and Observation Haki to locate the fight, then directed his warship toward it while Onigumo was being beaten.

Vic arranged for Rebecca to feign a difficult fight against Fisher Tiger while he stayed near the warship, then killed Fisher Tiger with a lightning strike after Rebecca was genuinely injured. The battle was still underway as Vic treated Rebecca and Arlong rushed to Fisher Tiger.

• Vic told Rebecca to make her fight with Fisher Tiger look convincing and ordered Frodeku to fight Arlong.
• Vic stopped Fish-Men from reaching the warship with lightning while Jinbe overwhelmed Onigumo and Rebecca traded showy attacks with Fisher Tiger.
• Vic signaled Rebecca to lose, and Fisher Tiger's Shark Tile Fist sent her flying and left her with real internal injuries.
• Vic roared, rushed Fisher Tiger, and struck him through the head with deep-blue lightning, leaving him motionless.
• Vic took Rebecca in his arms and treated her injuries as Arlong abandoned Frodeku and raced toward Fisher Tiger.

Jinbe learned that Fisher Tiger appeared to be dead and took command of the grieving Sun Pirates while fighting Vic. During their staged battle, Vic secretly told Jinbe that Fisher Tiger was alive in suspended animation and explained how to protect him and conceal his survival.

• Jinbe shattered Onigumo’s six swords with Buraikan, breaking his ribs and leaving him injured.
• Arlong reported that Fisher Tiger had no heartbeat or breath, then charged at Vic and was knocked aside by a lightning-wreathed kick.
• Jinbe confirmed Fisher Tiger appeared dead, and Aladdin urged Jinbe to lead the Fish-Men to safety.
• Jinbe ordered the injured Fish-Men to escape by sea and approached Vic to hold him off.
• Vic fought Jinbe hand to hand and secretly told him that Fisher Tiger would wake in an hour, that Arlong had to remain behind, and that Fisher Tiger should live under an assumed name.