Chapter Summaries

Crocodile obeyed Vic’s warning and defeated Luffy without using Haki, then left believing he had killed him. Luffy revived and pursued Crocodile while Vic turned his attention to the battle in Alubarna, where he summoned rain clouds that could bring the fighting to an end.

• Vic warned Crocodile not to use Haki against Luffy, so Crocodile drained Luffy’s water and left to pursue Nico Robin without checking whether Luffy had survived.
• A fallen ball of water revived Luffy, and he headed for the royal family’s underground mausoleum after Tashigi pointed him toward Crocodile.
• Vic stopped watching Luffy and summoned rain clouds over Alabasta as the battle raged near Alubarna.
• Nami sensed the changing weather while she and the others continued searching for the cannon that threatened the city.
• Smoker told Hina to take her ship away because the rain clouds made his Dance Powder preparations unnecessary, but Hina refused and chose to stay in Alabasta.

Vivi discovered the timed shell would still destroy the square, but Vic kicked it into the sky and saved Pell and the people below. As rain ended the fighting, Crocodile was defeated, and Robin left after saving Luffy with an antidote.

• Vivi found the timed shell in the clock tower and realized it would explode even after its fuse was put out.
• Pell seized the shell and flew upward to protect the capital, but Vic paralyzed him and kicked the shell far into the sky.
• Vic caught the unconscious Pell and laid him on a roof while Nami, Vivi, and the others realized no explosion had reached the square.
• Crocodile was defeated by Luffy without using Haki, and rain fell as the soldiers stopped fighting and wept.
• Luffy passed out after emerging with Cobra and Robin; Robin had given him an antidote to Crocodile’s poison before leaving.

Robin chose to join the Straw Hat Pirates, trusting them to become the companions she had long sought, while Vic accepted her decision and warned her to seek help if she faced danger. After leaving her, Vic considered three threats that could endanger the crew as his changes to history made their future uncertain.

• Robin told Vic she had chosen the Straw Hat Pirates because she believed they would accept her and help her uncover the Void Century, and she planned to visit her mother in the New World.
• Vic accepted Robin's choice and advised her on how to win over Nami, Chopper, Sanji, Usopp, and Zoro, reminding her that she could contact him or her mother if she needed help.
• Robin thanked Vic emotionally, and Vic vanished from the Going Merry.
• Vic considered Aokiji a threat to the crew at Water 7 because his changes to history might alter the reason Aokiji had let them go before.
• Vic worried that Kuma's changed circumstances could leave the Straw Hat Pirates without protection at Thriller Bark and Sabaody, where Gecko Moria, Marines, Kizaru, Sentomaru, and Pacifistas could threaten them.
• Vic decided he would intervene when necessary to help Luffy survive and grow into the Sun God.

Robin and Vic secretly watched the Straw Hat Pirates bid farewell to Vivi and escape the Marines pursuing them. Luffy and his crew evaded capture with Bon Clay’s help, but Bon Clay was taken prisoner, and the Going Merry sailed on after the warships were unexpectedly sunk.

• After three days aboard the Going Merry, Robin and Vic watched Luffy and the others return with Marine warships in pursuit.
• Vivi met the Straw Hat Pirates on the coast and asked whether they would still consider her their companion; they answered by showing the crosses on their left wrists, and she and Karoo Duck returned the gesture before saying goodbye.
• As Hina’s Marines attacked the Going Merry with cannonballs and iron arrows, a heavy fog concealed the ship and brought the crew together with Bon Clay.
• Bon Clay disguised himself and his crew as the Straw Hat Pirates to lead Hina’s warships away, allowing the Going Merry to escape, but Hina captured him.
• After Usopp repaired the Going Merry, the pursuing warships spotted it again, but discarded iron arrows pierced and sank them, giving the Straw Hat Pirates a chance to rest.

After leaving Alabasta without Vivi, the Straw Hat Pirates were stunned when Robin emerged aboard the Going Merry and asked to join them. Luffy accepted her, and after Robin quickly won over several crew members, Vic sensed a familiar presence and left the ship.

• The Straw Hat Pirates mourned Vivi’s absence as the Going Merry sailed away from the island.
• Robin came out of the cabin, alarming the crew, and used her Flower-Flower Fruit powers to disarm Zoro and Nami.
• Robin told Luffy she wanted to become his companion, and Sanji reacted jealously to her ambiguous explanation of their past.
• Robin said Luffy had carried her from beneath the royal tomb and asked to stay aboard; Luffy agreed despite Nami and Usopp’s protests.
• Robin gave Chopper medicine and Nami a bag of jewels, winning them over as she officially joined the Straw Hat Pirates.
• Vic smiled at Robin’s acceptance, sensed a familiar presence, and left the Going Merry in the form of lightning.

Vic waited aboard the Going Merry for a particular island and opportunity while the Straw Hat Pirates escaped Marine warships and landed on Ruluka Island. Henzo, a scientist seeking the Rainbow Mist to rescue friends lost fifty years earlier, approached Usopp and Robin for information.

• Vic returned to the Going Merry after meeting Hina, then stayed aboard and trained while waiting for the island he sought.
• Zoro spotted several Marine warships ahead, and the Straw Hat Pirates escaped their pursuit before reaching Ruluka Island.
• A soldier demanded a port tax from the crew, and Luffy knocked him unconscious after he threatened Nami and Robin.
• Vic recognized that Ruluka Island might be the place he sought and continued observing from the ship.
• Henzo approached Usopp and Robin, explained that he studied the Rainbow Mist to find his missing companions, and asked whether they had seen it.

Vic planned to exploit the Rainbow Mist’s time discrepancy and balance-point mechanism to cultivate in the Eternal Land, then return to the moment he entered while retaining his gains. He left the chapter intending to use the loophole to reach the God Realm before the coming battle.

• Vic recognized the Rainbow Mist as the passage to the Eternal Land and decided to use it to cultivate.
• Vic reasoned that time passed at different rates inside and outside the Eternal Land, and that disrupting its balance would eject entrants to the moment they had entered.
• Vic concluded that he could preserve his cultivation insights while undoing the time spent outside by exploiting the Eternal Land’s balance point.
• Vic noted that Pure Gold would let him and his companions avoid aging during the plan.
• Vic decided to use the Rainbow Mist to cut his cultivation time out of the real world and reach the God Realm.

Vic secretly prepared to enter the Rainbow Mist alone by silencing Dr. Henzo, taking Rapanui’s biography, and destroying the Rainbow Tower. He used lightning to kill Wetton and his accomplices, then left Luffy and Henzo asleep while Robin suspected his plans.

• Vic knocked Dr. Henzo unconscious and took Rapanui’s biography so the crew could not learn about the Rainbow Mist or its treasures.
• Vic summoned thunderclouds and struck Philip, Rake, and Wetton with lightning, killing all three.
• Vic destroyed the Rainbow Tower to prevent it from connecting to the Eternal Space.
• Robin suspected Vic was nearby and hiding information about the Rainbow Mist, while Luffy and Dr. Henzo remained deeply asleep.
• Robin decided not to tell the others what she had read in the biography.

Vic entered the Rainbow Mist and found a ship graveyard containing five children and one adult, Rapanui. He used a gold wire to guide the children out, then retrieved the wire and remained inside the Eternal Land.

• Vic waited at the dock until the Rainbow Mist appeared, then used gold wire as a guide to enter it.
• Vic explored the enclosed space with Observation Haki and found five children and the adult Rapanui among many shipwrecks.
• Vic reasoned that earlier people trapped in the Eternal Land had likely died because they lacked a guide to escape.
• Vic created an illusion of an adventurer sent by Henzo to rescue the children and led them toward the gold wire.
• Vic guided the children through the mist with Rapanui holding the wire, while the children failed to notice that Vic had vanished.
• After sensing that the children had reached safety, Vic pulled the gold wire back, removing the guide between the Eternal Land and the outside.

Vic stayed inside the Rainbow Mist to cultivate, while outside Henzo reunited with his childhood friends without Luffy rescuing them. Vic discovered that the mist’s unusual laws both hindered his progress and slowed his aging, and he continued cultivating while dealing with intruders.

• Rapanui led the children safely away from the Rainbow Mist, then kept his group from revealing themselves after Henzo reunited with his younger friends.
• Luffy reached the dock confused about what he had missed, while Robin wondered whether Vic was still inside the mist.
• A rainbow vortex appeared over the island as Vic stored the golden thread, killed the imprisoned pirates, and began cultivating in a wrecked ship.
• Vic found that the mist contained dense Primal Spirit but had obscure, incomplete laws that made some forms of cultivation impossible.
• As time passed, Vic killed evil intruders, guided good people out, and kept the treasure they had gathered so fewer people would enter the Rainbow Mist.

Vic emerged from the Rainbow Mist after spending at least twenty years cultivating there, having brought the Law of Lightning to great accomplishment and strengthened his Haki. He left Ruluka Island to return to seclusion and pursue a breakthrough to the God Realm, while Rebecca was tasked with watching over the Straw Hat Pirates.

• Vic gave up on perfecting the incomplete Law of Speed, comprehended the Law of Lightning to great accomplishment, and further developed his Haki.
• Vic gathered the pirates’ treasure, disrupted the balance of the Rainbow Mist’s small space, and returned to Ruluka Island on the day he had entered.
• Vic turned into lightning and left without greeting Luffy and the others, while Nami and Robin recognized him and the Rainbow Mist vortex caused a brief disturbance on the island.
• Vic headed for Mystery Island and told Rebecca to watch the Straw Hat Pirates and help them if their lives were in danger.

Vic arrived at Mystery Island and entered the Soul Tree to pursue godhood, while the Straw Hat Pirates followed clues toward Sky Island and reached Mock Town. The chapter left Vic beginning a month of seclusion and Luffy and Zoro enduring Bellamy's abuse without fighting back.

• Vic reached Mystery Island three days before the full moon and waited beside the lake as the island's beasts bowed to his powerful aura.
• Shanks tried to persuade Whitebeard to recall Ace from his hunt for Blackbeard, but their disagreement ended in a clash of Conqueror's Haki.
• Vic entered the Soul Tree's inner space under the full moon to study the Law of Lightning and break through to the God Realm.
• Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates found a sky-fallen wreck and clues to Sky Island, then followed an Eternal Pose to Mock Town on Jaya.
• Luffy and Zoro met Bellamy and his gang in a tavern, where they took a beating without fighting back despite Nami urging them to retaliate.

The Straw Hat Pirates left Jaya aboard the Knock Up Stream and reached Sky Island, where they defeated the four priests and met Wyper’s group. Meanwhile, Rebecca lost track of the pirates, and Blackbeard began pursuing Luffy but was left behind when the Knock Up Stream destroyed his ship.

• Luffy beat Bellamy in Mock Town after Bellamy’s crew injured Cricket and the Saruyama Alliance and stole their gold.
• Blackbeard saw Luffy’s new bounty poster and set out to capture him, but the Knock Up Stream carried the Straw Hat Pirates into the sky and wrecked Blackbeard’s ship.
• Rebecca arrived too late to find the Straw Hat Pirates on Jaya and could not reach Vic for further instructions.
• The Straw Hat Pirates reached Sky Island, where Wyper and his allies joined them in defeating the four priests who had seized Angel Island.
• Aisa helped clear up the misunderstanding between Luffy’s group and Wyper’s group, preventing a fight as they pursued different goals in Upper Yard.

The Straw Hat Pirates and the Shandia found the Golden Bell and brought it safely down to Upper Yard, while its chimes proved to Cricket that Noland had spoken the truth. After the celebrations began, the Sky Lord heard the bell and joined the banquet.

• Robin and Nami deduced that the Golden Bell had been knocked onto an Island Cloud near the giant beanstalk, and Luffy found it while climbing for the view.
• Nami organized a plan to use the beanstalk to pull down the Golden Bell, and Zoro and Wyper cut the stalk down while Luffy remained aboard the bell.
• The Golden Bell's chimes reached Jaya, where Cricket saw Luffy's shadow and realized that the City of Gold had flown into the sky; Rebecca also recognized the shadow and left to train.
• An Island Cloud cushioned the Golden Bell's landing on Upper Yard, and Nami beat up Luffy after he returned unharmed without bringing her any gold.
• Robin examined the Poneglyph at the bell's base and found another record of an Ancient Weapon, while Roger's message restored her confidence.
• The Straw Hats and Shandia held a banquet to the Golden Bell's music, and the Sky Lord joined them after hearing the chimes he had known as a child.

Nami went searching for gold inside the Sky Lord while the Straw Hat Pirates celebrated in Hidden Cloud Village. Two months later, Vic emerged from seclusion in the God Realm, discovered Seastone no longer affected him, and asked Rebecca about the Straw Hat Pirates’ voyage.

• The chief of Hidden Cloud Village told Nami she could search for gold inside the sleeping Sky Lord, and she brought Luffy and Usopp along.
• On a full-moon night two months later, Vic left the Soul Tree after comprehending the Law of Lightning and reaching the God Realm.
• Vic summoned and dismissed a giant made of lightning, then tested Seastone Handcuffs and found they no longer affected him.
• Vic prepared food from a prostrated beast and asked Rebecca what had happened to the Straw Hat Pirates during his seclusion.
• Rebecca recounted the crew’s trip to Jaya and Sky Island, then described watching them compete against the Foxy Pirates at Long Ring Long Land.

Rebecca fought Aokiji to protect the Straw Hat Pirates, then followed them as they continued to Water 7. After CP9 captured Robin over suspicions that she knew about Pluton, the Straw Hat Pirates and Franky set out for Enies Lobby to rescue her.

• Rebecca stopped Aokiji from pursuing the Straw Hat Pirates and fought him until the encounter ended without a clear victor.
• The Straw Hat Pirates left Long Ring Long Land for Water 7, while Rebecca flew after them and Aokiji rode toward the island.
• Aokiji gave Spandam information linking Robin to Pluton, and Spandam sent Lucci and the other CP9 agents into action.
• After reaching Water 7, the Straw Hat Pirates were caught off guard by CP9, who defeated them and kidnapped Robin.
• The Straw Hat Pirates and Franky headed to Enies Lobby to rescue Robin, and the Franky Family joined the journey.

After the Straw Hat Pirates escaped Enies Lobby, the Going Merry broke apart in Water 7, where Franky and Iceburg built them the Thousand Sunny. With Garp absent and no protection from his connections, the Five Elders sent a CP0 agent to Water 7 to eliminate the crew.

• Luffy defeated Lucci while still standing, and Nami defeated Kalifa after showing signs of awakening Observation Haki.
• The battered Going Merry rescued the Straw Hat Pirates, and Rebecca watched them escape without intervening.
• Aokiji hid in Water 7 and told his superiors he did not know whether the Straw Hat Pirates had survived the Buster Call.
• The Going Merry broke in two after reaching Water 7, and Franky volunteered to build the Straw Hat Pirates a new ship with Iceburg.
• Franky and Iceburg completed the Thousand Sunny in a few days.
• Garp did not come to Water 7, so the Five Elders sent a CP0 agent to eliminate the Straw Hat Pirates.

Rebecca killed a CP0 agent pursuing the Straw Hat Pirates in Water 7, while Aokiji left without confronting her. The Straw Hat Pirates escaped before a Shichibukai arrived and later reached the Florian Triangle, where their meeting with a ghost ship began the Thriller Bark story.

• Rebecca recognized the CP0 agent heading for the Straw Hat Pirates' lodgings and killed him with her Conqueror's Haki, earth control, and flying swords, then buried his body.
• Aokiji appeared after the killing, discussed Garp and the World Government's pursuit with Rebecca, and left Water 7.
• The World Government discovered it had lost contact with the CP0 agent and sent a Shichibukai to Water 7, but the Straw Hat Pirates had already departed with a new crewmate.
• The Straw Hat Pirates sailed through several more adventures and reached the fog-covered Florian Triangle, where the Thousand Sunny encountered a ghost ship carrying a lone skeleton.
• The Thriller Bark story began as the Straw Hat Pirates approached Gecko Moria, whose will had been broken by Kaido and Vic, leaving him unable to draw effectively on his Haki.

Vic learned that Doflamingo had attacked the Straw Hat Pirates after their victory over Moria, and Rebecca had driven him off before he could kill anyone. Vic told Rebecca to contact the Donquixote Family and keep her existence secret if possible, then asked whether Luffy’s crew was heading to the Sabaody Archipelago.

• The chapter explained that Luffy defeated Kaido by drawing on his hardened will to unleash a final attack that exhausted his Haki, while Moria had lost his ability to fight after Kaido broke his will.
• After the Straw Hat Pirates defeated Moria, Doflamingo attacked their exhausted crew, but Rebecca intervened before he could kill anyone.
• Rebecca told Vic that Doflamingo escaped using a substitute ability after she had badly beaten him, and that Luffy’s crew had left the Florian Triangle with Brook as their newest crewmate.
• Vic told Rebecca to contact the Donquixote Family and ask Doflamingo to keep her existence secret if he had not informed the Five Elders.
• Vic asked Rebecca whether Luffy and the others were headed to the Sabaody Archipelago, and she confirmed that they appeared to be going in that direction.

Vic learned that Marshall D. Teach had become the new Shichibukai and went to Marine Headquarters to ask Sengoku about the matter. He met the Fleet Admiral in his office, where Sengoku welcomed him and reflected on Vic’s departure from the Marines.

• Rebecca told Vic that the World Government had selected Marshall D. Teach to replace Crocodile as a Shichibukai after Barnett declined the meeting invitation on Vic’s behalf.
• Vic ended the call and traveled to Marine Headquarters to question Sengoku about Teach’s appointment.
• Vic appeared at the headquarters docks and asked to see Fleet Admiral Sengoku, drawing attention from Marines who recognized him as the former Vice Admiral and Shichibukai known as Thunder God.
• A colonel escorted Vic through headquarters to Sengoku’s office, while senior Marines watched him pass under the pressure of his presence.
• Vic greeted Sengoku, who welcomed him and recalled regretting the loss of Vic as a Marine after he left the service.