Chapter Summaries

After Vegapunk developed gravity bracelets, Vic trained Rebecca and Frodeku on Raijin Island until Sengoku recalled him for a new mission. Kizaru arrived to replace him on Punk Hazard, and Vic departed with a special ten-thousand-times-gravity bracelet and his companions.

• Vic returned from the South Blue with plant, soil, and heavy-water samples, then left Vegapunk to study them while he trained Barnett and himself.
• After three months, Barnett told Vic that his Replenish-Replenish Fruit could restore a substance that helped Haki recover quickly.
• Vegapunk gave Vic ten gravity bracelets capable of reaching a thousand times normal gravity, and Vic took Rebecca and Frodeku to train on Raijin Island.
• Sengoku recalled Vic from Raijin Island, and Kizaru arrived on Punk Hazard with an Eternal Pose for Vic's new mission.
• Vegapunk gave Vic a special gravity bracelet capable of reaching ten thousand times normal gravity, and Vic said goodbye before leaving with Barnett and the others.

Vic and his crew left the shore on a new Marine mission after Kizaru declined his challenge. As they sailed, Vic had the crew use gravity bracelets to keep training, while Ain asked for one of her own.

• Vic challenged Kizaru to fight, but Kizaru refused, and Vic left aboard his warship with Rebecca and the others.
• Vic explained that their mission was to support government agents capturing dangerous criminals by preventing anyone from escaping.
• Vic and the crew activated their gravity bracelets to continue training during the voyage.
• Ain asked Vic for a gravity bracelet, but he warned that it was too dangerous for a child and promised she could have one when she grew up.
• Vic handed the Eternal Pose to Barnett, went to his cabin, and increased the gravity to train.

Vic led his warship with a World Government fleet across the Calm Belt toward Dabo Haisita, where the mission was targeting criminals in the West Blue. After CP0 agents offended him, Vic withheld his aura and let Sea Kings damage the fleet; the chapter ended with the agents reporting to Renka, a Celestial Dragon and Holy Knight leading the mission.

• Two CP0 agents berated Vic for arriving late, but he threatened them and refused to help them unless they changed their attitude.
• The agents backed down and coordinated the crossing with Barnett, while Vic stayed in his cabin and restrained his aura.
• Sea Kings attacked the fleet during the Calm Belt crossing, sinking two warships and damaging the others while Vic's ship remained unharmed.
• The fleet repaired at the edge of the Calm Belt, then sailed for five days to Dabo Haisita as Vic kept cultivating and left the mission to Barnett.
• A CP0 agent told Barnett to keep the marines from letting anyone escape by sea, then reported to Renka, the green-haired Celestial Dragon and Holy Knight in charge.

Renka ordered the World Government forces to surround the island while waiting for Vic to come ashore, and the island’s civilians were trapped as agents destroyed their boats. The wanted group surrendered to protect the civilians, and a Cipher Pol agent uncovered the masked woman’s scarred face before returning her mask.

• Renka told a CP0 agent to capture the targets and said he would go ashore when Vic did.
• Barnett stopped Vic’s warship near the island as the other ships formed a blockade, and agents destroyed boats belonging to civilians trying to flee.
• The masked woman explained that escape was unlikely and could put the island’s civilians in danger, and the group gave up resisting.
• CP0 agents searched the island, captured the group, and brought them to shore.
• The masked woman asked the Cipher Pol agent to spare innocent people, and he briefly revealed her burn-scarred face before covering it again.

Renka ordered the island’s inhabitants killed to conceal the World Government’s research and planned to draw Vic into a fight. As civilians fled toward the warships, Rebecca and the others resisted the order to shoot them, and Barnett went to wake Vic.

• The masked CP0 agent reported that the criminals had surrendered, and Renka ordered them imprisoned while directing his forces to kill everyone else on the island.
• Renka flew toward the island’s center, while the masked agent sent most of the warships’ men ashore and ordered the others to guard against fleeing civilians.
• Rebecca and the others watched agents shoot civilians trying to escape by sea, and Barnett admitted he did not know why the island was being attacked.
• The masked agent flew to Vic’s warship, killed civilians who surfaced beyond the blockade, and ordered the marines to shoot anyone who tried to flee.
• Rebecca refused the masked agent’s command, and Barnett went to wake Vic as civilians cried out that the island’s people were being slaughtered.

Vic discovered that World Government agents were massacring civilians on Boheista and confronted Renka, who ordered the island’s population killed because survivors of Ohara were believed to be hiding there. The Five Elders watched the mission as a test of whether Vic would put the government’s orders before his own sense of justice.

• Barnett interrupted Vic’s cultivation and warned him about the agents’ killings, and Vic used Observation Haki to see the slaughter across Boheista.
• Vic kicked the masked agent away from the warships, ignored Rebecca and Wendy, and turned into lightning to reach the island.
• Vic blocked Renka from striking a civilian and demanded to know why he was killing people.
• A CP0 agent defended Renka, and Renka revealed his identity as Donquixote Ronka and ordered the agents to leave no one alive.
• The Five Elders discussed how the massacre would test Vic’s obedience to the World Government.

Vic awakened Conqueror's Haki as he witnessed the agents slaughter civilians across the island. He chose to defy the World Government's orders and stop the massacre, while Renka recognized the strength of Vic's newly awakened Haki.

• Saturn and the bespectacled Elder discussed using Renka to test and control Vic, while they also considered choosing a Marine Admiral.
• Renka ordered the agents to massacre the civilians, and the agents began killing people across the island.
• Vic's Mind Power merged with his Observation Haki, letting him sense the suffering and terror of people throughout the island.
• Vic roared in fury and awakened Conqueror's Haki, releasing it across the island and the surrounding warships.
• Vic decided he would stop the massacre even if it cost him his Marine status, and Renka praised his strength after sensing his Haki.

Vic awakened powerful Conqueror's Haki, killed a CP0 agent, and decided to defect from the Navy after witnessing the government agents slaughter civilians. Rebecca, Frodeku, Wendy, and Barnett chose to follow him as he prepared to fight Renka and the Celestial Dragon.

• Vic's newly awakened Conqueror's Haki overwhelmed almost everyone on the island and aboard the warships.
• Vic killed the masked CP0 agent with a swift Ryuo-coated slash, making his defection from the Navy clear to Renka.
• Vic told Rebecca, Barnett, Wendy, and Frodeku that he would leave the Navy and let them choose whether to join him.
• Rebecca, Frodeku, Wendy, and Barnett each chose to fight alongside Vic, while Barnett told the marines aboard his ship to stay put.
• Vic condemned the World Government, the Navy, and the Celestial Dragons, then challenged Renka and the Holy Knights to stop him.

Vic fought Renka, a powerful Celestial Dragon and Holy Knights member, and killed him with a sword strike after using bioelectricity and the Speed-Speed Fruit to briefly stop his body. The battle revealed that elite Celestial Dragons existed, and Vic recognized that he needed to tell Dragon about them.

• Vic clashed with Renka at high speed, and their Haki-powered fight wrecked the surrounding buildings.
• Renka grew alarmed as Vic's strength and Haki reserves overwhelmed him, while Vic held back and watched for a Devil Fruit ability.
• Renka claimed he had no Devil Fruit power and called the fight the most exhilarating of his life.
• Vic used charged particles to disrupt Renka's bioelectric signals and slowed him with the Speed-Speed Fruit, then pierced his heart with Blood Wither.
• Vic declared that Renka was flesh and blood like everyone else, then sheathed his swords as Renka died.

Vic killed a Celestial Dragon and two CP0 agents while protecting civilians on Dabo Haisita, forcing him to leave the Navy. He arranged for Dragon's Revolutionary Army to evacuate the survivors and warships, then told the marines to leave the ship and report the incident only after he had departed.

• Vic killed the injured CP0 agent attacking Rebecca and sent her to help eliminate the remaining government agents.
• Vic contacted Dragon, explained that he had killed a Celestial Dragon and two CP0 agents, and proposed that the Revolutionary Army take the island's civilians and warships.
• Vic warned Dragon that the Celestial Dragon belonged to the Holy Knights, who were far stronger than CP0, and Dragon agreed to send Kuma and a small team to Dabo Haisita.
• Vic decided to stay until the civilians were safe and returned to the warship, where he told the marines they could remain in the Navy if they disembarked and delayed reporting the incident.

Vic left the Marines after the battle and learned that the masked historian who helped drive Saul to defect was Nico Olvia, Nico Robin’s mother. Olvia revealed how she survived the Ohara buster call, while her reunion with Robin remained unresolved.

• Vic handed over his coat of justice, told the Marines to say he had left voluntarily, and sent them ashore after they packed.
• Rebecca and the others brought the captured historians to Vic, who demanded to know who they were and why their capture had caused the Marines’ downfall.
• The masked woman told Vic she had been the one who made Saul betray the Marines, and Vic recognized her as Nico Olvia.
• Olvia removed her face covering, revealing severe burn scars, and Rebecca gently wiped the pus from her face.
• Olvia explained that she survived the Ohara buster call by hiding in a water-filled hollow near the Tree of Knowledge, but flames burned her face when she surfaced for air.

Vic invited Olvia to join his group after rescuing her and the scholars, and she agreed to consider it. With the World Government likely to brand them pirates after Vic killed a Celestial Dragon, Vic reassured Rebecca and the others that they would live freely, then said they needed to find a safe place for Ain.

• Vic realized Olvia had survived Ohara with Saul’s help and had continued researching the Poneglyphs in secret.
• Vic invited Olvia to join his group and offered to protect her from the World Government.
• Olvia said she would think about the invitation and went to the rear deck with the rescued scholars.
• Rebecca asked Vic whether they really had to become pirates, and Vic told her they should embrace their freedom and grow stronger.
• Vic said they needed to find somewhere safe for Ain because enemies would keep pursuing them.

Vic agreed to let Ain stay with his group after she and the others pleaded with him. Meanwhile, Olvia accepted Vic’s invitation, encouraged by her fellow scholars and the chance to keep researching history and reunite with Robin.

• Vic worried that Renka’s death could bring the Holy Knights and the Donquixote Family after his group, and told Ain she should leave for her safety.
• Ain cried and insisted she wanted to stay, while Rebecca and Barnett argued that the group could protect her; Vic agreed to keep her with them.
• Olvia hesitated to join Vic because she feared her identity would endanger the group, but the scholars described Vic’s strength and urged her to accept.
• Olvia agreed to join Vic and said she would ask him to take the other scholars too; they told her they could remain hidden and continue their work from afar.

Vic arranged for the Ohara scholars to join the Revolutionary Army while Olvia joined his crew, then left the island aboard a pirate ship. He called Garp to confess that he had killed a Celestial Dragon and could no longer serve as a Marine.

• Olvia asked Vic to take her fellow scholars aboard, but Vic said the Revolutionary Army could shelter them and that his crew needed to stay small.
• The scholars agreed to go with the Revolutionary Army, and Olvia accepted that she would part from them.
• Vic sensed Kuma and the others arriving, and Olvia said goodbye to her comrades before returning to the ship.
• Vic ordered Barnett to paint the warship's sails black and called Garp to apologize for killing a Celestial Dragon and leaving the Marines.
• Garp answered from Marine Headquarters as Vic explained that he had been unable to endure the Celestial Dragons' actions.

Vic left the Marines after killing the Celestial Dragons, and Garp accepted his choice while grieving their coming separation. Vic then collapsed after unleashing Conqueror’s Haki, leaving Rebecca and the others unsure what to do.

• Garp told Vic to pursue his chosen path and not hold back if they met as enemies, then broke down after ending their call.
• Garp informed Sengoku that he was taking leave to visit his grandson in the East Blue and left to prepare his warship.
• Vic knelt before the Den Den Mushi, put it away, and entered the cabin after questioning Rebecca and himself about the Marines.
• Vic collapsed as his Conqueror’s Haki erupted, knocking out agents and killing sea creatures while leaving his companions and the island’s civilians unaffected.
• Kuma sent the unconscious agents away as Marines discussed Vic’s newly awakened Haki, while Rebecca worried over Vic and asked what they should do.

After Vic’s group escaped Dabo Haisita, the Five Elders and Donquixote Family set a huge bounty and organized a pursuit. The chapter ends with newspapers branding Vic and his companions as mass murderers, shocking the world.

• Barnett steered the ship toward the Calm Belt while Kuma evacuated the civilians and left the surviving Marines behind on the island.
• Sengoku reported the disaster to the Five Elders, who decided to hunt Vic and set his first bounty at one billion Beli.
• The Donquixote Family privately added five hundred million Beli to Vic’s bounty after learning that one of their young relatives had been killed.
• Newspapers announced Vic’s defection and accused him and his companions of killing more than five thousand government soldiers, over thirty thousand civilians, and a Celestial Dragon.
• The wanted posters spread worldwide, and readers were stunned that a former Marine Vice Admiral had become a feared criminal.

The World Government blamed Vic and his companions for the disaster at Dabo Haisita and moved to pursue them, while Marine leaders privately regretted the events that had driven them away. The chapter left Garp and Tsuru mourning Vic and his friends’ departure from the Marines as they read the news and bounty posters.

• Saturn and the other Five Elders discussed concealing the slaughter at Dabo Haisita, blaming Vic’s group, and pursuing them while considering how to recover the people Vic had taken.
• Kong and Sengoku regretted that the Marines’ tests had driven Vic and his companions away, and they planned to tell Borsalino not to pursue them too aggressively.
• Garp read Vic’s bounty poster and ordered his ship to sail at full speed, while trusting Vic’s strength and ability to escape pursuit.
• Tsuru read the news with Rebecca and lamented that Vic and his companions had become pirates, while warning Rebecca that they would be enemies when they met again.

After Vic and his companions were branded criminals in the newspaper, Marines and powerful figures across the seas reacted to the news. The chapter ended with Big Mom celebrating Vic’s departure from the Marines and planning to make him her husband.

• Hina read the newspaper and, despite the accusations, believed in Vic and hoped he would protect Rebecca and Wendy.
• Gion drank alone aboard her warship while staring at Vic’s wanted poster and worrying that she could not reach him.
• Smoker tried to return to Marine Headquarters to learn the truth, but his commanding officer refused to let him disobey orders.
• The Marines reacted with grief, anger, and suspicion, while Aokiji, Kizaru, Akainu, and Zephyr considered Vic a future enemy or lamented his departure.
• Whitebeard distrusted the newspaper’s claims and grew more interested in Vic, while Katakuri reflected on his recent gains and his encounter with Vic.
• Big Mom celebrated the news and announced that Vic would become her husband and the father of her children.

News of Vic becoming a pirate spread through the New World, prompting fear, speculation, and plans among pirates and civilians. Shanks decided to draw Marine forces toward himself to ease Vic’s pursuit, while Kaido celebrated Vic’s defection and attacked Orochi.

• Katakuri feared that Big Mom’s interest in Vic would reach him and provoke him to retaliate against Whole Cake Island.
• Kaido read Vic’s news and bounty, approved of his becoming a pirate, then got drunk and beat Orochi.
• Shanks read about Vic’s defection and told Benn Beckman to raise the Red Hair Pirates’ profile and draw Marine forces away from Vic.
• Beckman doubted Vic needed help, but Shanks warned that the World Government would send formidable enemies after him.
• Pirates and people across the world reacted to Vic’s news with mixed hopes, fears, schemes, and skepticism, while most ordinary people believed the newspapers and cursed him.

Vic remained unconscious as his crew escaped the West Blue by flying their warship over the Calm Belt, while the World Government’s forces searched for them. Two months later, the search had found no trace of Vic or his companions, but it had thrown the West Blue’s pirates into chaos.

• People who knew Vic and his companions rejected the newspapers’ reports, while Makino and others worried about their safety.
• Rebecca, Barnett, Wendy, and Frodeku discussed Vic’s unconscious state and the danger posed by his continuously leaking Conqueror’s Haki.
• Rebecca used the Float-Float Fruit to lift the warship above the clouds and carry the crew over the Calm Belt, concealing their trail.
• Olvia marveled at the crew’s strength but felt sorrow when she touched the scar on her face.
• After two months, the Holy Knights and Kizaru’s Marines searched the West Blue without finding Vic’s group, while their operations disrupted the region’s pirates.