Chapter Summaries

Vic revealed the God Realm to Ace and left him to decide whether to prepare for the coming war, prompting Ace to renew his training. He then visited Robin on Zou and explained that the three Road Poneglyphs could not reveal Laugh Tale without the final stone, urging her to train instead of searching for a loophole.

• Vic showed Ace the power of the God Realm and warned him that war with the World Government and Celestial Dragons was unavoidable.
• Ace realized Vic's words had given him a new goal and began training to reach the God Realm, keeping its secrets from others.
• Vic used Robin's Vivre Card to arrive in Zou's Whale Forest, where Luffy and his crew were hiding.
• Vic told Robin that the coordinates on the three Road Poneglyphs were deliberately scrambled and that only Luffy's Voice of All Things could lead them to the final stone.
• Robin hoped to find a flaw in the coordinates, but Vic dismissed the idea and told her to spend her time training.

Vic gave Robin a Pure Gold bracelet from Olvia and explained why the secret had been kept, then went to find Nami as Aokiji approached. Nami heard Vic call her and left her card game with Usopp and Chopper, while they wondered whether she had imagined the voice.

• Vic gave Robin the Pure Gold bracelet Olvia had asked him to deliver and explained that it could preserve her youth.
• Robin realized Olvia had used Pure Gold for years, while Vic said they had kept it secret to avoid the World Government.
• Vic told Robin that Aokiji was coming, then vanished to find Nami.
• Vic called Nami from the distant forest while she played cards with Usopp and Chopper.
• Nami heard Vic's voice again, left her winnings behind, and ran toward him.
• Usopp questioned whether he had gone deaf, and Chopper offered to examine him.

Vic visited Nami and asked whether she could sense changes in the weather with her body. After Nami described her natural weather sense, Vic explained that she had a strong affinity for the Law of Weather and began teaching her how people could gain abilities by comprehending laws.

• Nami accused Vic of staying away for two years, then imagined that he had secretly protected her and the others from the World Government.
• Vic asked whether Nami could use her body to sense weather changes, and Nami mistakenly thought he was asking to use her body for something else.
• Nami explained that she had sensed weather since childhood and believed she could guide Luffy and the others to Laugh Tale if they knew its location.
• Vic told Nami that her weather sense came from her affinity with the Law of Weather and explained how comprehending laws could grant abilities without Devil Fruit drawbacks.
• Vic shielded their conversation with Observation Haki and continued explaining the process of comprehending, analyzing, mastering, and using a law.

Vic told Nami she could gain power by comprehending the Laws without Devil Fruit drawbacks, and explained that her natural affinity for the Law of Weather made her exceptionally gifted. Nami eagerly agreed to train, and Vic began guiding her through her first meditation.

• Vic explained that Nami's ability to sense weather changes revealed her talent for understanding the Laws, though she had never studied them deeply.
• Nami joked that she could have defeated Luffy and become captain if she had known her talent could become a power.
• Vic urged Nami to pursue Law comprehension, promising it could strengthen her and help with navigation.
• Nami agreed to follow the path after recalling how weak she felt beside the powerful enemies and allies she had encountered.
• Vic told Nami to close her eyes, calm her mind, and empty her thoughts as he began her instruction.

Vic taught Nami to sense the Law of Weather, and her exceptional compatibility let her enter its depths almost immediately. He left her to practice using the law and planned to continue training her the next day.

• Vic told Nami to sense changes in the weather and stirred up overlapping laws to help her perceive the Law of Weather.
• Nami quickly saw through the changing weather and began comprehending the Law of Weather, which could eventually let her control many weather elements and natural disasters.
• Vic watched Nami immersed in the law for three hours, then woke her and told her to go eat and return the next day.
• Nami said the experience had gone smoothly, and Vic vanished as she admired his ability to disappear.

Nami secretly spent half a month studying the Laws with Vic, hiding that she learned to borrow their power after only three days because she wanted more time with him. Vic discovered her act, praised her talent, and gave her Pure Gold earrings before she returned to camp.

• Nami turned down Sanji's suggestion that they eat alone, and Vic watched them leave before reflecting on her feelings for him and how she had changed since childhood.
• Nami visited Vic every day to meditate on the Laws, while Vic used illusions to keep Sanji from discovering where she was.
• Vic confronted Nami about pretending to be a beginner, and she admitted she had hidden her progress to spend more time with him.
• Nami told Vic it had taken her three days to borrow the Power of Law, and he praised her talent and gave her Pure Gold earrings.
• Nami returned to camp smiling with her new earrings, and Robin recognized them and felt envious.

Nami demonstrated her growing control of the Laws by unleashing extreme weather across Zou, and Vic praised her progress before spending two months with her in an illusion. Vic returned to his base, where Ain asked about her still-unawakened Return-Return Fruit ability.

• Nami showed Vic how she could summon rain, lightning, snow, blizzards, heat, fog, ice, and destructive winds across Zou.
• Vic praised Nami's progress and spent two months with her in an illusion before urging her to claim she had eaten a Devil Fruit if anyone asked about her abilities.
• Vic returned to his base, where S-Dog and Ain ran to greet him.
• Vic asked Ain whether her Return-Return Fruit ability had awakened, but it still had not.

Vic traced Ain’s Return-Return Fruit to the Laws of Time and helped her awaken it by showing her an illusion of vast changes across history. At a celebration banquet, he told Fisher Tiger that Shirahoshi was Poseidon, the mermaid who could command the Sea Kings.

• Vic realized that Ain’s Return-Return Fruit was connected to the Laws of Time and that she needed to witness the passage of time to understand its power.
• Vic brought Ain into an illusion depicting thousands of years of change, and she awakened her Return power less than a month later.
• At a celebration banquet, Vic asked Fisher Tiger about Shirahoshi’s communication with the Sea Kings.
• Fisher Tiger said Shirahoshi had mastered communicating with the Sea Kings, who called her their king.
• Vic revealed that Shirahoshi was Poseidon, the current king of the Sea Kings, and Fisher Tiger understood why they obeyed her.

Vic heard that Law and Kid had returned to the New World, while both captains pursued Road Poneglyph rubbings after recovering and growing stronger. Their crews later joined forces near Whole Cake Island, where Kaido and Big Mom’s alliance made taking the third rubbing by force seem impossible.

• Vic learned that the Heart Pirates and Kid Pirates had reappeared, then spent the next six months studying the Law of Space and training his Haki.
• Shanks and Buggy’s crew searched for the last Road Poneglyph, while Law and Kid also pursued rubbings to advance their ambitions.
• Kid returned to Wano Country and received a Road Poneglyph rubbing from Momonosuke and Kozuki Sukiyaki; Law secretly obtained the same rubbing and later took one from Zou.
• Law met the Straw Hat Pirates in Zou, shared a banquet with them, and left with a rubbing; Luffy’s crew departed soon afterward, with Luffy having mastered the Voice of All Things.
• Law and Kid separately found Kaido’s Beasts Pirates stationed at Whole Cake Island alongside Big Mom’s crew, and their Heart Pirates and Kid Pirates formed a temporary alliance to seek Big Mom’s rubbing.

Law and Kid infiltrated Whole Cake Island, defeated King and Katakuri, and took a rubbing of Big Mom’s Road Poneglyph. Two years later, their crews had reached Lodestar Island, but the search for Laugh Tale remained stalled without the fourth Road Poneglyph.

• Law and Kid exploited a busy day on Whole Cake Island to search for the Road Poneglyph while Kaido and Big Mom drank at a banquet.
• Law fought Katakuri and learned Future Sight, while Kid fought King and discovered Conqueror’s Coating, defeating him with it.
• Law and Kid defeated their opponents and escaped with a rubbing of Big Mom’s Road Poneglyph while Kaido and Big Mom remained drunk.
• Law gave Kid a copy of the Zou rubbing as agreed, leaving the Kid Pirates and Heart Pirates with three Road Poneglyph rubbings each.
• Two years passed, and the Kid Pirates and Heart Pirates reached Lodestar Island but could not find Laugh Tale without the fourth Road Poneglyph.

Vic visited Gion, the Marines, and the Revolutionary Army before asking Shanks about the missing fourth Road Poneglyph. Shanks admitted he had no useful information from Roger’s ship, leaving Vic without a new lead.

• Vic received Luffy’s call about the Straw Hats’ unsuccessful search and decided to visit old friends and acquaintances.
• Vic visited Gion, then checked on the Marines and found that his chosen officers had become influential among the mid-ranking ranks.
• Vic visited the Revolutionary Army and saw Vegapunk’s Seraphim program growing with Gild Tesoro’s financial support.
• Vic went to Shanks’s base and asked about the last Road Poneglyph and what Roger’s crew had known.
• Shanks said he and Buggy had been apprentices who paid little attention to navigation, so he could not help Vic find the missing Poneglyph.

Vic helped Shanks realize that Roger’s crew left for Laugh Tale in mid-August because the island appeared at a specific time, giving Luffy a possible clue for finding it. Shanks then agreed to have Vic regrow his missing arm, and Vic requested a Sea King feast for the treatment.

• Vic urged Shanks to reconsider why Roger had left for Laugh Tale without waiting for Buggy to recover.
• Shanks realized the crew had been pressed for time and remembered that Laugh Tale appeared around the middle of August, which Vic could tell Luffy.
• Vic asked Shanks what Roger had said to him and wondered whether the tattoo on Shanks’s back held a clue to the missing Road Poneglyph, but Shanks could not recall anything meaningful.
• Vic offered to regrow Shanks’s missing arm, and Shanks agreed to undergo the treatment.
• Vic told Shanks to have his cook prepare a Sea King feast to provide the energy needed to grow the arm.

Vic regrew Shanks' left arm, then returned to his base and read Oden's travel journal to learn more about Roger's route. The journal revealed vivid scenes of the Roger Pirates' voyage but no codes or secret messages.

• Vic sent Shanks' noisy officers away and regrew Shanks' left arm while Beckman watched.
• Shanks admired his new arm and thanked Vic, who joined the crew's feast before leaving without telling Red-Hair about the God Realm.
• Vic returned to the base and asked Yamato for Oden's travel journal.
• Yamato insisted she had never used the journal as toilet paper and explained that reading it had made her admire Oden.
• Vic read the journal and relived the Roger Pirates' voyage in his mind, but found no codes or secret messages.

Vic deciphered the guide hidden in Oden’s logbook and Shanks’s tattoo, revealing Laugh Tale’s location and the time it appeared. He decided to keep the fourth Road Poneglyph from Luffy so he could delay the final battle with Imu until their allies had time to grow stronger.

• Vic spent days studying Oden’s logbook and realized the entries after the torn-out Laugh Tale pages concealed a clue.
• Vic translated the later entries into Ancient Script and uncovered the steps for decoding Shanks’s tattoo.
• Vic decoded the tattoo and combined its writing with the other three Road Poneglyphs to find Laugh Tale’s coordinates and entry window.
• Vic returned the logbook to Yamato and resolved not to give Luffy the fourth Road Poneglyph.
• Vic planned to delay Luffy’s discovery of the One Piece and use Pure Gold and the Soul Tree to prepare Luffy and others to confront Imu later.

Vic learned that Luffy had found the fourth Road Poneglyph and planned to go to Laugh Tale, threatening Vic’s effort to delay the coming war. Luffy had discovered it in Loguetown after returning from Foosha Village to see the dying old mayor, and Vic accepted that he could not stop him.

• After three years, Vic had brought his comprehension of the Law of Space close to great perfection while Luffy and the others continued studying Laws.
• Luffy called Vic and announced that he had found the fourth Road Poneglyph and could now reach Laugh Tale.
• Vic feared that Luffy’s discovery would expose their plans to Imu and the World Government before Joy Boy’s allies could reveal the Void Century’s truth.
• Luffy explained that he had returned to Foosha Village because the old mayor had died, then sensed the Poneglyph while resupplying in Loguetown.
• Luffy found the fourth Road Poneglyph and the Supreme Great Grade Sword Ace on a mountain behind Loguetown.
• Vic offered condolences for the mayor and congratulated Luffy, realizing he could no longer stop him from going to Laugh Tale.

Vic waited on Lodestar Island and studied the Law of Space while Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates prepared to find Laugh Tale. After locating its entrance, the crew stood ready for it to open, while Vic still lacked the inspiration to perfect his understanding of space.

• Vic gathered his companions, traveled to Lodestar Island, and secluded himself in a cave to study the Law of Space.
• Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates left Loguetown with all four Road Poneglyphs and sailed toward Lodestar Island.
• After reaching Lodestar Island, the Straw Hat Pirates rested, then followed the Road Poneglyph coordinates to locate Laugh Tale’s entrance, with Vic following them.
• Vic failed to complete his mastery of the Law of Space before the entrance appeared, and he waited in an alternate space as the Straw Hat Pirates waited aboard the Thousand Sunny.
• The chapter recalled the Straw Hat Pirates’ ten-year journey and described Luffy’s desire for freedom and Zoro’s ambition to defeat Vic.

The chapter reflects on how the Straw Hat Pirates’ dreams had developed during ten years at sea and how several of them depended on reaching Laugh Tale. As they approached the island, the crew felt excitement alongside uncertainty about what would happen to them after their voyage ended.

• Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper, Robin, Franky, and Brook each pursued their dreams through the crew’s ten years of travel, while Robin and Luffy’s goals converged on reaching Laugh Tale.
• Jinbe carried the Fish-Man Race and Merfolk’s dream of living on the surface, while Aokiji joined to pursue his goals of ending the Great Pirate Era and overthrowing the World Government.
• Vic recognized that Aokiji’s goals aligned with those of Luffy and his father and steered him toward the Straw Hat Pirates.
• The Straw Hat Pirates reached the entrance to Laugh Tale and expected to become the second crew after the Roger Pirates to sail around the world.
• The crew wondered whether they would keep adventuring together or disband after reaching Laugh Tale, and felt anxious about losing their life together at sea.

Vic entered Laugh Tale ahead of the Straw Hat Pirates, recorded the Ancient Script covering a stone mountain, and left before Luffy came ashore. Back on Lodestar Island, he deciphered Joy Boy’s message and learned that Joy Boy’s plans were meant to protect the future of the world and humanity.

• When Laugh Tale’s entrance appeared under the full moon, Vic entered the alternate space before the Straw Hat Pirates.
• Vic found a stone mountain covered in Ancient Script and memorized its inscriptions, along with a giant spotted egg Roger had left at its summit.
• As Luffy and the others approached the island, Vic escaped through a spatial gate and returned to Lodestar Island.
• Vic recreated Laugh Tale’s mountain in his illusory world and deciphered Joy Boy’s message.
• After reading Joy Boy’s account, Vic realized that Joy Boy had made contingencies to oppose Imu for the sake of the world and humanity, not for revenge or power.

Vic learned that Joy Boy’s account traced the conflict on Qingning Star back to the arrival of moon-dwelling Space Wanderers 900 years ago. After decades of war between the visitors and the Sun Kingdom’s people, Joy Boy investigated the visitors’ origins during a truce.

• Nine hundred years ago, Space Wanderers arrived from the moon and asked the Sun King to let them settle on Qingning Star.
• The Sun King agreed to let the visitors live on islands, but over the next fifty years they exploited the natives, and conflict between the groups worsened.
• The visitors launched a surprise attack on the Sun King and his retainers, and the strongest fighters on both sides died in battle.
• Joy Boy led the natives against the visitors, while Imu led the Twenty Kingdoms’ Allied Forces through decades of fighting and truces.
• During a truce, Joy Boy traveled to Sky Island, the moon, and outer space to investigate the visitors’ origins.

After hearing the Moon People’s account, Joy Boy visited the dead moon and explored space, learning that the Space Wanderers were notorious planet-destroying parasites. He returned to Qingning Star determined to defeat Imu, but after losing, he arranged for Queen Lily to preserve the truth and tools for future generations before dying, unable to fulfill his promise to the Fish-Man Race.

• Joy Boy learned that Moon People had fled the moon to Sky Island, while others had been enslaved by the Space Wanderers.
• Joy Boy traveled to the moon and found it lifeless, with ruins that supported the Moon People’s account of the invaders.
• Joy Boy explored space and discovered the Space Wanderers had a reputation for exhausting planets and moving on to new worlds.
• Joy Boy returned to Qingning Star and resolved to defeat the Space Wanderers led by Imu, but he lost the war.
• With Queen Lily’s secret help, Joy Boy left behind the Poneglyphs, the truth of Laugh Tale, and clues to the Ancient Weapons and Ancient Giant Robot before he died.