Chapter Summaries

Vic and his companions relocated Mantis’s people to a safe island and sailed through the sky toward the New World, where Mantis wanted to meet Whitebeard. The floating island arrived above the Moby Dick, and Whitebeard recognized it as his old friend’s arrival.

• The Five Elders raised Vic’s bounty by 200 million Beli, bringing it to 1.7 billion Beli, after he attacked World Government strongholds.
• Rebecca moved Mantis’s hometown houses and reshaped a nearby island, then carried the island and their ship toward the New World while Vic and the others trained.
• Mantis resumed training and committed himself to helping Vic pursue his ambitious goal.
• Vic, Mantis, and Rebecca reached Whitebeard’s territory and contacted Edward Newgate, who gave them the name of an island where they could meet.
• Three days later, Marco and the Whitebeard crew saw a huge shadow cover the Moby Dick, but Whitebeard recognized the floating island and welcomed his old friend with laughter.

Mantis and Vic visited Whitebeard to ask him to shelter the people of Mantis’s hometown on their floating island. Whitebeard agreed and offered Mantis a commander’s position, but Mantis told him he had already joined Vic’s crew.

• Vic warned Rebecca not to bring the floating island directly over the Moby Dick, and she moved it away before lowering it nearby.
• Mantis and Vic flew to the Moby Dick with a barrel of wine, where Whitebeard warmly greeted Mantis and asked how he knew Vic.
• Mantis asked Whitebeard to protect the people of his hometown while they settled in the New World.
• Whitebeard agreed to let them settle in his territory under his pirate flag and invited Mantis to join his crew as a commander.
• Mantis declined Whitebeard’s offer, explaining that he had already agreed to join Vic’s pirate crew.

Mantis turned down Whitebeard’s invitation to join his crew, explaining that he believed in Vic and his future. After testing Vic’s strength, Whitebeard welcomed his group with a banquet and warned Vic about the World Government before they departed to settle Mantis’s people.

• Mantis praised Vic’s ambition and declared that he believed Vic would one day protect everyone, despite Whitebeard’s concerns about Vic’s current danger.
• Whitebeard challenged Vic with Murakumogiri, and their clash of Conqueror’s Coating split the clouds as Vic was driven back five steps.
• Whitebeard accepted Vic’s strength, ordered Marco and the others to care for those knocked unconscious, and resumed drinking with Mantis.
• Vic reunited with Jinbe, who explained that he had joined the Whitebeard Pirates to train with Pops after King Neptune recommended him.
• Whitebeard held a banquet for the two crews and showed particular warmth toward Rebecca and Ain.
• Before Vic and his companions left with Marco, Whitebeard warned Vic that the World Government was dangerous and advised him not to reveal all his strength.

Over two years, Vic repeatedly fought the five God's Knights, using the encounters to train before retaliating against World Government strongholds. As the New World’s balance of power shifted, Vic also mastered hypnosis-assisted illusions that could draw people into convincing false realities.

• Marco flew away after guiding Vic and the others to Whitebeard’s arranged location, and Rebecca used her ability to place the island in the sea.
• The five God's Knights tracked down Vic’s group, but Vic kept Rebecca and the others away from the fight, faced the knights alone, and escaped after testing his skills against them.
• Vic repeatedly lured the five God's Knights into fights, then attacked World Government strongholds and caused heavy losses before disappearing again.
• During the two years, Charlotte Linlin became an Emperor of the Sea, Akainu, Kizaru, and Aokiji became Marine Admirals, and Kaido expanded his power by exploiting Wano Country.
• Vic learned hypnosis from an ancient book and combined it with Observation Haki to create convincing illusions that gradually drew people into worlds of his making.

Vic used virtual-reality illusions to train his companions over two years, leaving them far stronger and ready to face the God's Knights. As he prepared to take them to sea, Saturn contacted him on the black Den Den Mushi.

• Vic used illusions to give Rebecca and the others months of instruction and combat training while only days passed in reality.
• Over two years, Vic trained his companions in Haki, Ryuo, the Six Powers, and their Devil Fruit abilities, but avoided risking their lives to teach Future Sight.
• Vic returned to Titan Island after training on Raijin Island and prepared to gather his companions to confront the God's Knights.
• The Five Elders had sent increasing numbers of God's Knights to hunt Vic, but his crew kept growing stronger and eventually could fight them effectively.
• The World Government raised the crew's bounties, with Vic's reaching two billion, and Saturn finally called Vic on the black Den Den Mushi.

After two years of fighting, Saturn offered Vic the Shichibukai position to end their conflict, but Vic negotiated for compensation instead. The World Government agreed to pay his two-billion-Beli bounty in exchange for his promise to stop attacking its bases and the Shichibukai, and Vic told Saturn to recall the eight fighters hunting him.

• Saturn proposed a truce after the World Government’s losses in its two-year conflict with Vic.
• Saturn offered to make Vic a Shichibukai and clear his name through a news report blaming someone else for the Celestial Dragon’s death.
• Vic refused the Shichibukai offer and asked for money, saying he wanted to buy a pirate ship.
• Vic demanded the two-billion-Beli bounty on his head as compensation.
• Saturn agreed to pay if Vic stopped attacking World Government bases and the Shichibukai, and Vic asked him to send the eight fighters back to Mary Geoise.

After two years in hiding, Vic secured his plan to become a Shichibukai and returned to Titan Island, where he reunited with his transformed companions. The crew had grown stronger during their seclusion, and Vic was ready to resume the plans and connections he had put aside.

• Vic and Saturn ended their call, each privately believing he had outmaneuvered the other over Vic's Shichibukai title and the two billion Beli.
• Vic reflected on the work he had left unfinished, including translating Poneglyphs, building a ship, and visiting old friends.
• Vic returned to Titan Island, where Rebecca had used the Float-Float Fruit to bring the ship safely to the island's edge.
• Rebecca, Wendy, Ain, Olvia, Barnett, and Mantis came out to greet Vic after two years apart.
• Vic observed how his companions had changed and grown stronger, including Barnett's development as vice captain and Mantis's progress toward awakening his Devil Fruit.

Vic told his crew that the World Government had compromised and that they could stop running, while explaining that becoming Shichibukai would give them time to train and build strength. The crew prepared to claim Titan Island as their territory, with Vic insisting that his long-term goal had not changed.

• Kanbo’s years of accumulated training paid off as he mastered both types of Haki and grasped Ryuo.
• Vic praised Frodeku for being able to hold off a Holy Knight and explained that his limited Armament Haki reserves kept him from winning outright.
• Vic announced that the World Government had compromised and told Mantis to move his villagers’ island near Titan Island, which he planned to claim as territory.
• Rebecca questioned whether the World Government would let Vic become a Shichibukai after he killed a Celestial Dragon, and Vic said they could shift the blame and clear his name.
• Mantis accused Vic of deceiving the crew about the Shichibukai, but Vic explained that the crew needed time to grow stronger before facing the World Government again.
• Mantis apologized and vowed to fight a Holy Knight alone next time, while Vic said he should aim to handle at least three in more than ten years.

After a celebratory banquet on Titan Island, Vic privately showed Olvia five copies of Poneglyphs he had recorded during his adventures, giving her a chance to study the Ancient Script and the history she had long pursued. Olvia was overcome with gratitude and hope that Vic might change the world.

• Vic declared the victory worth celebrating with a banquet and told Rebecca and Mantis to move the island the next day and greet Whitebeard.
• After the banquet, Vic called Olvia to his house, where he presented five scrolls covered in Ancient Script.
• Olvia recognized the scrolls as copies of Poneglyphs and marveled that Vic had gathered five when Ohara had found only one.
• Vic explained that he had recorded the Poneglyphs during his Grand Line adventures and invited Olvia to examine them now that the World Government was no longer a major problem.
• Olvia became emotional as she studied a copy, thanked Vic for changing her life, and hoped he could change the world.

Vic and Olvia read several Poneglyph records, learning about Ancient Weapons, their power source, Joy Boy’s apology, and a cryptic island. Vic decided to investigate the island’s coordinates in search of the mysterious godhood mentioned in the inscription, while Olvia was disappointed that the records revealed little about the Void Century.

• Vic read the Alabasta Poneglyph and learned that Pluton was located in Wano Country, with coordinates also recorded.
• Olvia read the Poneglyph about Poseidon and struggled with the World Government’s accusations against Ohara, reaffirming that the scholars had done nothing wrong.
• Vic learned that Pluton and the giant robot required an unknown energy source and considered having Vegapunk research it once his surveillance was dealt with.
• Olvia read Joy Boy’s apology to the mermaid princess, which said someone bearing a D would one day fulfill his promise to liberate the Fish-Man Race.
• Vic read a Poneglyph containing coordinates and cryptic clues about an island, a mirror, a tree, and godhood, and resolved to visit the location.
• Olvia finished reading the records disappointed that they offered little information about the Void Century.

After reading the Poneglyphs, Vic urged Olvia to focus on developing her Devil Fruit while keeping their discoveries secret. The World Government publicly cleared Vic of the Celestial Dragon killings and prepared the way for him to join the Shichibukai.

• Vic told Olvia that the Poneglyphs were unlikely to reveal the full history of the Void Century and urged her to develop her Devil Fruit ability.
• Olvia left after deciding to prioritize her training, then dreamed of being intimate with Vic after he secretly used illusions and his Rumble-Rumble Fruit ability to relieve her tension.
• Mantis noticed Olvia’s changed demeanor and teasingly suspected Vic had made a move, while Olvia felt embarrassed and guilty about her dream.
• Vic told the crew that the World Government’s newspaper had blamed another culprit for the killings, apologized to him, and offered compensation and a possible return to government service.
• The article also prepared the public to accept Vic as a future Shichibukai by portraying him as a former marine who would protect civilians.

Vic followed the Poneglyph’s coordinates to Mystery Island, which he had visited for years to collect Mystery Fruits, and tried to understand how its giant tree could help him become a god. He trained beside the lake while waiting for the full moon, hoping to discover the tree’s secret.

• Vic gave Rebecca, Mantis, and Barnett instructions before leaving Titan Island to investigate the Poneglyph’s coordinates.
• Vic reached the intersection of the four coordinates and discovered that the recorded island was Mystery Island in the Calm Belt.
• Vic realized the island’s mirror was its central lake and the tree that appeared there each full moon was the one described by the Poneglyph.
• Vic concluded that collecting Mystery Fruits one at a time would take too long and began searching for a way to obtain them in greater numbers.
• Vic trained by the lake for more than half a month as he waited for the full moon to reveal the giant tree.

Vic waited for the full moon to investigate the giant tree and its Mystery Fruits, but found no clue to Joy Boy’s cryptic instruction to “become a god in the tree.” He decided to try again on the next full-moon night, then cleared away the clouds so the moon would appear on schedule.

• Vic watched the full moon rise as beasts gathered around the poisonous lake, wary of his powerful aura.
• When two Mystery Fruits fell from the giant tree, Vic seized them and subdued the surrounding beasts with Conqueror’s Haki.
• Vic searched the tree for clues, but it sank back into the lake before he discovered anything, and its deadly gravity returned.
• Vic considered how Joy Boy had arranged the lake’s unnatural effects and decided to wait another month before resuming his search for Poneglyphs.
• On the next full-moon night, Vic used lightning and a wind-infused slash to disperse the clouds and reveal the moon.

Vic used the Voice of All Things to find a hidden entrance in the giant tree and discovered a glowing chamber inside its trunk. There, he found a mysterious sapling and a detailed chart of the Grand Line, but he remained unable to contact the outside world until the tree surfaced again.

• As the giant tree began sinking into the lake, Vic used the Voice of All Things to sense a hollow in its trunk.
• Vic cleared moss from the trunk, found and opened a concealed door, then entered before the tree sank beneath the water.
• The hidden entrance sealed behind Vic, leaving him inside the submerged tree with no Den Den Mushi signal and no way out until the next full moon.
• Vic followed a glowing passage into a chamber containing a small luminous tree growing from the floor.
• Vic examined reliefs on the chamber wall and recognized one as a chart of the Grand Line, which he carefully recorded.

Vic discovered that the relief depicted the woman he had seen among the powerful figures and read her account of the Soul Tree, the Gods of Law, and the Grand Line’s creation. He realized Soul Fruits could help him pursue godhood, but the inscription left him questioning the World Government’s cover-up and the threat Law Gods were meant to guard against.

• Vic recognized the woman in the relief as the powerful figure he had seen on the Red Line, whom he suspected had awakened the Woods-Woods Fruit.
• Vic read the inscription explaining that Soul Fruits strengthened souls and that strong souls and wills helped people comprehend laws and become Gods of Law.
• The woman described how King Nika and other Law Gods shaped the Grand Line’s islands to temper people, and how the Soul Tree offered another path to godhood.
• The inscription explained that the Soul Fruits would all ripen together and could be safely gathered by cutting down the glowing tree on a full-moon night; the tree also concealed the fluctuations of a breakthrough.
• Vic concluded that the World Government had suppressed the truth about Law Fruits and wondered whether it had also limited people to eating one fruit.
• Vic speculated that Law Gods needed to protect Qingning Star from enemies beyond their world, while recognizing that many mysteries remained.

Vic harvested the Soul Fruits from the Soul Tree and left Mystery Island with a stockpile that would accelerate his Haki cultivation. He headed toward the East Blue, intending to visit old acquaintances before pursuing his path to godhood.

• Vic vowed to avenge the Forest Law God once he became powerful enough, then spent a month cultivating while he waited for the full moon.
• When the Soul Tree rose, Vic cut down the glowing tree in the ring-shaped space and stored it in his Dimensional Ring.
• Vic used Conqueror's Haki to hold back the gathering beasts and Sea Kings, then collected nearly all the Soul Fruits before the tree sank.
• Vic took several striped donkeys from the island to eat and used his Rumble-Rumble Fruit power to encourage them to reproduce.
• Vic ate a Soul Fruit and cultivated his Armament Haki with its Primal Spirit, then flew from Mystery Island toward the East Blue.

Vic visited an East Blue town and learned from a newspaper that Jinbe had become a Shichibukai, prompting him to fear that Arlong had been released. He rushed toward Cocoyasi Village to save Bellemere, though a month had passed since the news was published.

• Vic heard townspeople say the Shichibukai system had been announced and learned there were five Shichibukai.
• Vic asked the crowd for a copy of the newspaper to see who had joined the Shichibukai.
• Vic saw Jinbe in the paper and realized Arlong might have been released from Impel Down.
• Vic feared Arlong would attack Cocoyasi Village and put Bellemere in danger.
• Vic turned into lightning and rushed toward Cocoyasi Village, hoping Arlong had not arrived yet.

Arlong and his crew attacked Cocoyasi Village and discovered Bellemere’s family, demanding head taxes they could not afford. Genzo and the villagers fought back to protect Bellemere, Nami, and Nojiko, leaving the village in a desperate clash with the Fish-Men.

• Arlong collected protection money from Cocoyasi Village and noticed cooking smoke rising near Bellemere’s home.
• Arlong led his crew to Bellemere’s cottage, where he injured her and captured Nami and Nojiko.
• Genzo reached the cottage and tried to persuade Bellemere to pay, but she could not afford the head tax for her family.
• Genzo attacked Arlong and was cut down by a Fish-Man.
• The villagers arrived with tools and weapons and charged the Fish-Men to rescue Nami and Nojiko.

Vic arrived in Cocoyasi Village just as Arlong shot Bellemere, taking the bullet and stopping Arlong’s attack. He gave Arlong a chance to return the villagers’ money and leave for Fish-Man Island, warning that otherwise none of his crew would escape.

• Arlong ordered the Fish-Men to beat the resisting villagers and aimed his flintlock at Bellemere as a warning.
• Genzo, Nami, and Nojiko watched helplessly as Arlong fired at Bellemere.
• Vic rushed in and took Arlong’s bullet, which lodged only shallowly in his powerful body.
• Arlong recognized Vic and fired the rest of his bullets, but Vic caught them all and dropped them at Arlong’s feet.
• Vic told Arlong to return the villagers’ money and go back to Fish-Man Island, or face him in the orange grove.

Vic drove Arlong and his men away from the village, then healed Bellemere and gave Soul Fruits to her and the children. The chapter left Vic holding Nami and Nojiko while Genzo watched jealously.

• Vic helped Bellemere up and healed her minor injuries as Nami and Nojiko ran to embrace her.
• Arlong chose to retreat, ordering his men to leave behind the money and depart rather than risk fighting Vic.
• Vic gave Bellemere a Soul Fruit and healed her broken arm and other injuries with his ability.
• Bellemere thanked Vic and worried about saving some of the fruit for Nami and Nojiko, and Vic promised them fruit as well.
• Vic gave Soul Fruits to Nami and Nojiko, then picked them up while Genzo watched with jealousy.