Chapter Summaries

The Recruit Camp trainees received their practical mission: rescue Peace Island from pirates and return safely to Marine Headquarters. Rear Admiral Gion joined them as captain and gave Vic a map showing that Gia Island lay near their destination, leaving Vic grateful to Garp for arranging the mission there.

• Andrew explained that the trainees would sail without service personnel, complete a mission, and be assessed by scorers under a captain's protection.
• Andrew told the trainees to rescue Peace Island's residents and defeat the pirates occupying the island.
• Rear Admiral Gion arrived as the captain and smiled at Vic, while Andrew directed the trainees to board the warship.
• Gion offered Vic information in exchange for cooking her every meal, and Rebecca's pleading persuaded Vic to accept.
• Gion gave Vic a map marking Gia Island near Peace Island and explained that Garp had selected the mission after receiving a distress call from Peace Island.
• Vic thanked Garp in his thoughts and headed for the warship with Rebecca and Wendy.

Barnett organized the warship’s crew and negotiated with Vic to lead the combat team while handling only fighting and hunting. Vic then invited Gion to spar after the crew meeting, hoping to lift her spirits and demonstrate his Armament Haki.

• Barnett assigned Abel to arrange fishing and Angelina to gather information about nearby islands so the ship could resupply.
• Barnett summoned the team leaders to a deck meeting and asked Vic to lead the combat team.
• Vic agreed to fight and hunt on his own terms, including keeping his catches and having a deputy team leader.
• Vic noticed Gion was in low spirits and invited her to an aerial battle; she eagerly accepted, but he postponed it until after the meeting.

Barnett introduced the warship’s team leaders and organized food, navigation, defense, medical, weapons, and ship inspections for the field training. Afterward, Vic and Gion discussed Barnett’s ambition and whether his character made him worth recruiting.

• Barnett introduced Kevin, Jessica, Phoebe, Wendy, Vic, and the other team leaders to the trainees.
• Barnett assigned Angelia’s intelligence team and Phoebe’s navigation team to locate islands and assess their conditions so the crew could secure food and supplies.
• Barnett arranged three layers of defense, with Kevin’s lookout team, Wendy’s sniper team, and Vic’s combat team responsible for responding to threats.
• Barnett assigned Demi’s medical team, the weapons team, and the shipwright team to carry out regular health checks and inspect the ship’s equipment and structure.
• After the meeting, Vic told Gion he was considering recruiting Barnett, and Gion suggested Barnett had held the meeting on deck to impress both of them; Vic said he would judge Barnett by his character.

Vic fought Rear Admiral Gion in an aerial sword spar, overwhelming her with his Geppo, Haki, and swordsmanship while the recruits watched. After Vic sent Gion crashing onto the deck, she rose furious, and Vic returned to training as he considered provoking her again.

• Vic asked Gion why she had not eaten a Devil Fruit, and she said she wanted to remain a pure swordswoman.
• Vic and Gion used Geppo to fight behind the moving warship, with Vic dodging and striking her while the recruits watched in amazement.
• Barnett learned that the ship’s weapons were damaged and ordered the weapons team to repair them before danger arrived.
• Rebecca explained to Wendy that both fighters’ swordsmanship had improved and that the duel’s killing intent had driven the seagulls away.
• As Gion tired, Vic struck her with the flat of his blade and sent her crashing across the deck into the cabin.
• Gion stood up furious, while Vic returned to the deck, covered himself in Haki, and sat down to train.

Vic and Gion joined an island eating contest, where Vic won a mysterious prize from the island’s richest man. The prize was a strange object called the Staff of God, and Vic prepared to test whether he was its fated user.

• Vic and Gion argued about robbing the rich, then joined Rebecca and Wendy in exploring a nearby town.
• Vic paid the entry fees for all four of them to compete in the richest man’s annual eating contest.
• Rebecca and Wendy withdrew, followed by Gion, leaving Vic to out-eat the richest man by finishing an extra cup of ice cream.
• The richest man invited Vic and the three women to his villa and presented him with a mysterious, half-meter-long object.
• The richest man called the object the Staff of God and told Vic to take it out and see whether he was fated to use it.

Vic was struck by lightning when he removed the Divine Staff from its box, then learned its history and the Ancient Script inscription describing a destined wielder. The richest man offered the staff to Vic after years of failed attempts to master it, but Vic had not yet discovered why he felt drawn to it.

• Vic took the Divine Staff from its stone box, endured two lightning strikes, and put it back when the bolts stopped.
• Barnett heard townspeople describe the richest man's supposed thunder-roaring beast and decided the story seemed suspicious.
• Vic read the Ancient Script inside the box and learned that the richest man had acquired the staff in Water 7 after it killed a salvage captain who removed it.
• The richest man explained that Ohara archaeologists had translated the inscription as a message about a person of destiny wielding the staff to restore peace and clarity to the world.
• Vic recalled Ohara's destruction and chose not to pursue the richest man's past dealings with its archaeologists.
• The richest man admitted he had concealed the staff behind a beast story and had invited powerful people to try it, but none had mastered it.

Vic took the Staff of God from the fat tycoon after discovering that neither he nor Gion could wield it safely, then concealed his plan to keep it. A day later, Vic imagined a future in which the World Government replaced the Marines and persuaded Gion to join his ship and pursue their own justice.

• Vic had Gion test the Staff of God, but lightning struck her when she lifted it, so he concluded she was not its chosen wielder.
• The fat tycoon gave Vic the staff, and Vic restored his appearance, hid it in his clothes, and decided to keep it for himself.
• Vic told Gion, Rebecca, and Wendy to keep the staff secret, and they returned to the warship before sailing for Peace Island.
• After Vic and Gion fought aboard ship the next day, Vic asked what she would do if the World Government abolished the Marines and replaced them with a mass-produced power.
• Vic warned Gion that a replacement for the Marines might not represent justice and invited her to join his ship; she agreed to strive alongside him.

Vic warned Gion that Vegapunk’s scientific inventions could help create a terrifying future, then a sudden squall trapped the warship in dangerous waters. Barnett organized the crew to row away from the storm, and the chapter ended as they rotated shifts while a massive waterspout spun behind them.

• Vic spoke with Gion about Vegapunk and the possible weapons he could create, leaving her troubled by the future he described.
• Vic trained on deck with the divine staff, which drew lightning as dark clouds gathered and a storm began.
• Phoebe identified the weather as a squall cloud that could produce hurricane-force winds and waterspouts, while Vic warned Barnett to haul up the anchor.
• Barnett ordered the crew to row the warship out of the storm, assigning the cooking, medical, navigation, and shipwright teams their tasks.
• The crew rowed through worsening rain as Vic tracked a huge waterspout behind them, and Barnett changed shifts after three hours.

During a storm, Vic and Gion tried to save the warship from an enormous waterspout, but their attacks and efforts to accelerate the ship could not stop it. Vic unleashed his powerful Dragon Slayer slash to sever the waterspout, then sped the warship away from the resulting tsunami, leaving Gion and the cadets stunned by his strength.

• Barnett used his Replenish-Replenish Fruit to restore the cadets after their massages, and Vic saw how the support ability worked.
• A huge, fast-spinning waterspout threatened the warship, so Vic told the cadets to keep rowing while Gion attacked it with Kompira.
• Gion used One-Sword Style: Iai - Full Moon, but her slash only cut an opening in the waterspout before it recovered.
• Vic accelerated the warship with his Speed-Speed Fruit, but it still could not escape the waterspout, so he prepared a powerful drawing slash.
• Vic unleashed One Sword Style: Dragon Slayer, splitting the waterspout and making it collapse into the sea.
• Vic accelerated the warship away from the resulting tsunami, while Gion and the cadets were left amazed by his swordsmanship.

After the exhausted cadets could no longer row the warship through the rainstorm, Vic ate a huge meal and tied himself to the ship to pull it through the waves. The ship stopped two hours later, but Gion revealed that Vic was safe and had gone underwater to make a sea beast pull the ship instead.

• Vic’s Dragon Slayer impressed the cadets, and Barnett ordered them back to their duties while Vic recovered his strength.
• Barnett and Phoebe warned Vic that the exhausted crew could not row out of the rainstorm cloud zone, so Vic asked the kitchen to prepare as much food as possible.
• Vic ate for half an hour, tied ropes around his waist, and swam through the sea to pull the warship while the navigator watched the heading.
• The warship sped up under Vic’s power, but after two hours it stopped, and the crew hauled in the ropes without finding him.
• Gion assured everyone that Vic was fine and explained that he had untied himself to teach a sea beast a lesson so it could pull the ship.

Vic forced a sea horse beast to pull the Marines’ warship, which reached an island near Peace Island ahead of schedule. There, the recruits fought a pirate crew being used as a test, sank its ship, and left the surviving pirates to be captured on shore.

• Vic subdued a sea horse beast and rigged it to pull the warship, threatening it into working harder.
• After the storm, Vic reflected on his new life and strengthened his resolve to live well in this world.
• Phoebe told Barnett that the warship would reach an island that afternoon and Peace Island after another day of sailing.
• Kevin spotted a pirate ship near the island, and Barnett ordered the crew to prepare for battle.
• Vic told Wendy that the pirates were a test for the sniper team, and Wendy led the recruits in firing on their ship.
• Wendy killed the pirate captain, the Marines sank the pirate ship, and island Marines captured the survivors who reached shore.

Vic experimented with Sword Qi and Mind Power on the island, developing a flexible, weaker version of Dragon Slayer that he could use as a basic attack. After returning to the warship, he considered how Mind Power differed from conviction and planned to seek Nagayama Black Gold for a new sword.

• Vic stayed aboard the warship while Barnett and the procurement and logistics personnel went ashore, then invited Rebecca to watch him test a sword technique.
• Vic went to a cliff by the sea, where Rebecca and Gion watched him test Sword Gangs with different balances of Sword Qi and Mind Power.
• Vic continued slashing until he found a flexible basic attack whose power surpassed Gion's Full Moon.
• Vic returned to the warship with Rebecca and Gion, sent them to rest, and told Rebecca to contemplate the power in his slash.
• Vic reflected on Mind Power, conviction, and his need for a new sword as he considered finding Nagayama Black Gold or stealing a sword from a pirate.

Vic led the warship into the Calm Belt, where giant Sea Kings surrounded it, and used his presence to persuade them to let the ship pass. The crew escaped safely, while the Sea Kings sensed a powerful fate-bound aura on Vic and returned to guarding their positions.

• Vic and the cadets set sail with the hippocampus pulling the warship, and Rebecca and Wendy freed its tongue after it stuck to the deck with dried drool.
• Vic sensed powerful presences as the warship entered the Calm Belt, where giant Sea Kings rose from the sea and surrounded the ship.
• Phoebe explained that the hippocampus had gone off course while the cadets on watch slept, and Gion admitted she had no way to fight so many Sea Kings.
• Vic stepped to the bow, drew part of Blood Wither, and asked the Sea Kings to make way for the ship.
• The leading Sea King opened a passage, and the hippocampus pulled the warship out of the Calm Belt.
• The Sea Kings discussed Vic's fearsome aura and the approaching 800-year promise before dispersing to guard their positions.

After surviving the giant Sea Kings, Vic and the Recruit Camp reached Peace Island and defeated the pirates holding its people hostage. He then left alone for Gia Island to seek Nagayama Black Gold, carrying an Eternal Pose Garp had given him.

• Vic heard scattered words from the giant Sea Kings about forbidden ground, an 800-year-old promise, and fate, then reassured Gion after the danger passed.
• The warship reached Peace Island, where Barnett led the combat team in defeating the pirates and rescuing the children they had held hostage.
• Barnett assigned the Recruit Camp to deal with the pirates’ observation posts, document the children, treat the injured, and help restore the island.
• Vic told Gion he was leaving alone to search for the island marked on his map, and she gave him Garp’s Eternal Pose to Gia Island.
• Vic sniffed the Eternal Pose, then used Geppo to fly from Peace Island toward Gia Island.

Vic reached Gia Island and used his Observation Haki to locate the Pet Pirates, who were plotting to seize the royal treasury’s records. He followed their plan to a courtyard behind a tavern, where he confronted them just as they were about to act.

• Rebecca grew anxious after Wendy teased her that Gion might be interested in Vic, and Wendy urged her to confess her feelings.
• Vic arrived on Gia Island, recovered his strength, and traveled by caravan to the royal capital.
• Vic spread his Observation Haki across the capital and discovered that the tavern proprietor Adrian was a pirate planning to control the treasury’s record keeper.
• Vic went to Adrian’s tavern and watched Yves bring the record keeper, who had been drugged, to the courtyard behind it.
• As Adrian reached toward the unconscious record keeper, an unfamiliar voice called him out as a pirate and asked about his bounty.

Vic was caught by Adrian’s Beast-Taming Ring after confronting the pirate, and Adrian seized Vic’s gold, swords, and Devil Fruit. Adrian carried the loot to his hidden vault at a pig farm, where an unseen voice revealed it had found the hiding place.

• Vic encountered Adrian and Yves in the courtyard and identified himself as a bounty hunter.
• Adrian sneak-attacked Vic with a Beast-Taming Ring, leaving him unable to move, and Yves revealed he was controlled by a similar ring.
• Adrian took Vic’s swords and belongings, then discovered a Devil Fruit in Vic’s bag and ordered the attendant to guard Vic, Yves, and the record keeper.
• The attendant told Vic that Adrian had controlled Yves by exploiting his rival’s daughter and trapping him in bed with her.
• Adrian hurried to his secret vault at a pig farm and opened the cellar, but an unseen voice announced that it had found the hiding place.

Vic defeated Adrian and freed the people and beasts under his control, then found the Nagayama Black Gold in Adrian’s treasure chamber. He prepared to return to headquarters and upgrade his swords.

• Vic revealed that he had blocked his ears to resist Adrian’s commands and watched Adrian transform with a red Beast-Taming Ring.
• Adrian attacked Vic, but Vic pierced his forehead and killed him, releasing everyone bound by the Beast-Taming Rings.
• The freed residents celebrated, carried Adrian’s body away to bury, and thanked Vic for freeing them.
• Vic entered the secret chamber, crushed the fake Devil Fruit, and found the Nagayama Black Gold among Adrian’s treasure.
• Vic took the Nagayama Black Gold and planned to return to headquarters to upgrade his swords.

Vic left gold for the exploited pig farm workers, escaped Gia Island, and returned to the warship after Adrian’s defeat. He reunited with Gion, Rebecca, and Wendy, but the damaged ship would keep them on Peace Island for at least another day.

• Vic left half a chest of gold coins for the pig farm workers before leaving the secret room.
• Yves strangled the unconscious attendant, took the treasury clerk to an inn, and returned home, relieved that Adrian was gone.
• Vic used Geppo to leave the kingdom and head toward Peace Island, while Queen decided to pursue Adrian on Gia Island.
• Vic returned alone to the warship and found it undergoing extensive repairs, which he suspected were part of the trainees’ assessment.
• Vic found Gion, Rebecca, and Wendy in town, and Gion told him the group would likely remain on the island for another day.

Queen sailed toward Wano Country with Auston aboard and spotted a warship being pulled by a sea beast, prompting him to plan a theft. On Vic’s warship, Gion’s terrible drawing of the seahorse Little Yellow left the creature devastated.

• Queen complained about the slow journey to Wano Country and belittled Auston, who secretly planned to kill him once he grew stronger.
• A lookout spotted a warship ahead, and Queen used a spyglass to identify Little Yellow pulling it.
• Auston suggested stealing Little Yellow, and Queen ordered his crew to seize the sea beast when they got closer.
• Gion showed Vic her drawing of Little Yellow, and Vic bluntly told her not to draw anymore.
• Vic showed the drawing to Little Yellow, which vomited and turned gray with despair as Vic tried to reassure it.

The Beasts Pirates pursued the Marines’ training ship, so Vic and Gion moved to intercept while the cadets escaped. Vic and Rebecca reached Queen’s ship, where Vic cut through the pirates’ ranks and prepared to face Queen and the remaining Headliners.

• Kevin spotted an approaching pirate ship, and Barnett ordered the warship to change course when they recognized the Beasts Pirates’ flag.
• After the Beasts Pirates pursued them, Vic announced that he and Gion would intercept while the cadets escaped; he brought Rebecca, and Wendy covered them from the warship.
• Queen ordered his crew to fire on Vic, Rebecca, and Gion, but they dodged the attacks while Wendy picked off pirates from a distance.
• Queen transformed and lunged at Vic, who struck his head with Sword Gang, broke his Haki defense, and passed over him.
• Vic threw Speed-Speed Fruit-accelerated darts that eliminated most of the pirates, leaving Queen, Auston, and several stronger fighters on the ship.