The Captain Koby Incident

Near Sphinx, Whitebeard's homeland in the New World, a solitary ship moves across the sea. The Straw Hats call out, "All right, thanks again for the ride-yoi!!" and ask whether Marco is really not going to join the crew. Marco laughs, "Hahaha! Quit dreaming," saying he is too old and worn out to keep playing babysitter for great pirates. He tells Luffy to back him up, and Luffy replies with a casual "See ya around!!" The scene flashes back to Wano, where the others asked whether Marco was leaving with them. He said there was a nearby ship that would give him a lift and that he would head off first. The page begins with a quiet farewell to Marco, framing him as an elder ally who helped Wano but will not sail into the new era with the Straw Hats.

Back in Wano, Yamato explains why he chose to stay. He says the forest admiral was only driven off because someone unleashed an immense burst of Haki, and that with Kaido gone, Wano's absence has opened the floodgates for dangerous people to pour into the country. Yamato says he cannot simply abandon everyone, and if the Straw Hats were always worrying about Wano they would doubt their adventures. He still really wants to be one of them and a real crewmate, so this choice is painful but necessary. Luffy understands and says that if Yamato stays it would be a load off his mind. He tells Yamato he will leave Momo and the others to him. Momonosuke is warned that he has a lot of pride, and Yamato cheerfully says he will find another reason to stay. The page clarifies Yamato's choice as protection and trust rather than hesitation.

Marco finishes his farewell with Luffy. Luffy asks, "You saved me back in the Summit War, right? I never got to say thanks!!" and remembers Jinbe urging Marco to take Ace's brother and go. Marco smiles and says it makes him wonder, because back then they all seemed so ready to spring into action. Luffy laughs, and Marco tells him, "I'm sure Ace would be proud to see how far you've come-yoi!!" Luffy answers with a beaming "Oh yeah?!" Marco then flies away, telling the youngsters, "The times belong to you youngsters now!! Stay strong!!" The page passes the torch from Whitebeard's generation and Ace's memory to Luffy's current era, before the chapter turns to another part of the world.

At Amazon Lily in the Calm Belt, the town is in bad shape. It is the first time in history that men have invaded the Isle of Women like this. Hancock says that as long as she remains there, the Navy will not stop coming, and wonders where in the world she would go. Gloriosa suggests, as she always does, that Hancock should go and marry Luffy, but Hancock snaps that she always thinks that. A caption moves the story a few weeks prior, when the island's gates are down and the Kuja are under fire. The page shifts from Marco's farewell to the consequences of abolishing the Warlord system: Amazon Lily itself is no longer untouchable.

A few weeks earlier, Navy forces attack Amazon Lily. Soldiers report, "The gates are down!!" and "We're under fire! The Kuja are resisting!!" Vice Admiral Yamakaji orders the new Pacifistas deployed, saying the Seraphim should be on the front lines. He tells the troops to record what happens because Hancock still is not ready to come out and face them. Then a child-sized figure with overwhelming strength appears, shocking the Kuja. They say, "Who is that?! I can't fight a child!!" and recognize that the child resembles someone. The page introduces the Seraphim as the Navy's replacement weapon after the Warlords' abolition, and shows the Kuja facing a power they do not yet understand.

The siege is interrupted by a new threat. Marines spot a warship at the stern and report that the Kurohige Pirates are incoming. The sea quakes as Blackbeard arrives, laughing, "Zehahaha! It's a seaquake!" His crew declares that an emperor's crew is here, and Blackbeard announces, "Zehaha! I've come for the pirate empress!!" He says he will not let a power like hers fall into the Navy's clutches. The page turns Amazon Lily's crisis into a three-way battle: Hancock is being targeted by the Navy, Blackbeard wants her Devil Fruit, and the Kuja are caught between two outside forces.

Blackbeard's crew closes in on Hancock. Catarina Devon praises her beauty, saying Hancock's head would make a wonderful trophy after she wrings her neck, while another Blackbeard pirate says they can have their way with her after they take her powers. Blackbeard says he is not there for the Marines and charges into the battle, while Vice Admiral Yamakaji tells the Navy not to engage Blackbeard without orders from headquarters. The island erupts in chaos as Hancock and the Kuja resist, and Koby reacts that they expected other pirates to want a piece of the former Warlords. The visible text is partly obscured by the local page overlay, but the action clearly shows Blackbeard forcing his way toward Boa Hancock while Navy forces hesitate.

Koby tries to resolve the siege by negotiation. He says, "The Navy isn't looking for a fight!! Hancock-san!! If you surrender yourself to us, I promise we'll leave immediately!!" A Kuja warrior calls this hero conceited and says they should handle him, but Hancock steps forward and says, "Don't waste your breath!! I'll never submit to another's captivity!!" As she prepares to attack, one of the Seraphim or child weapons draws shocked attention. Someone says, "You're kidding!! White hair, brown skin... and black wings?!" while Koby recognizes the traits and reacts that it is not what he expected. The page shows Hancock's refusal to return to bondage and reveals the Seraphim's Lunarian-like features.

The Seraphim proves terrifyingly strong. Blackbeard's men ask whether the Navy is serious, because the kid took down all of them by himself. The child weapon charges through trees and stone, and someone shouts, "He's a Pacifista?!" while Blackbeard curses, "Damn it...!! A Pacifista brat!! What the hell is going on?!" The attack is huge, and even Blackbeard is forced to respond as the battlefield fractures around him. The page emphasizes that the Seraphim are not ordinary Pacifistas: they are childlike, powerful enough to threaten veteran pirates, and strange enough to unsettle even an emperor.

Blackbeard uses his darkness power, shouting "Black Hole!!" and swallowing parts of the battlefield in gravity. Hancock answers with "Slave Arrow!!" and turns masses of attackers to stone, the heart-shaped arrows striking Navy and pirates alike. Koby calls for Helmeppo and Yamakaji, and orders the Pacifista to stop because it will smash the people who have already been turned to stone. Hancock begins another attack with "Perfume..." while chaos spreads across the island. The page shows all three forces losing control: Blackbeard's darkness, Hancock's petrification, and the Seraphim's indiscriminate destructive power are all endangering everyone present.

Blackbeard seizes Hancock by the throat before she can use her power freely. She tells him to get his filthy hands off her and is identified as former Warlord "Pirate Empress" Boa Hancock with a bounty of 1.659 billion. Blackbeard, identified as Emperor "Blackbeard" Marshall D. Teach with a bounty of 3.996 billion, says he has had his eye on her power for quite a while. Hancock says her beauty is what makes the power formidable, and that if Blackbeard kills her all his little friends will remain statues forever because whoever inherits the power will not be able to release them. Blackbeard notes most of the morons in his crew are petrified and asks whether she has really got them good. Koby realizes Hancock is far trickier than expected and wonders what to do because everyone has been turned to stone. The page places Hancock and Teach in direct stalemate: he can kill her, but doing so may doom his own crew.

Blackbeard proposes a brutal bargain: if he unhands Hancock, does Koby think she would play nice and change everyone back to normal? He says he does not buy it and assumes she would just turn them to stone too. Hancock, struggling, offers her own condition: if Blackbeard and Koby get off her island, she will restore everyone. Koby calls it a real head-scratcher but says they have to kill her if they cannot trust her, while his men beg him not to throw lives away. Blackbeard says it seems like they are at an impasse and reminds Koby that he did him a favor at Rocky Port, which let him oust Ochoku and become boss of Pirate Island. The page connects Koby's past hero reputation to Blackbeard's rise, while Hancock's life and everyone's petrified bodies hang on trust no one has.

Silvers Rayleigh suddenly arrives and breaks the stalemate. He apologizes to Hancock for being late and says he knew the Navy would lay siege to the island, but he did not expect the terrain to become so devastated. Blackbeard recognizes him as Whitebeard's old apprentice and admits, immature though it may be, that he really does not like Rayleigh. Others gasp that the Pirate King's right-hand man, "Dark King" Silvers Rayleigh, is here. Rayleigh says Hancock should release everyone who has been turned to stone, and that the invaders will then leave the island. He adds that he will not allow any funny business. The page uses Rayleigh's reputation as a deterrent strong enough to make even Blackbeard and the Navy accept a withdrawal.

In the present day on Amazon Lily, Hancock is grateful that she survived. She thanks Rayleigh, while he says that with Vegapunk's seastone paddle ships out there even the Calm Belt is not safe anymore. Between the Navy's new weapons and Blackbeard's arrival, Gloriosa says she thought they were done for. Shakuyaku is revealed as the former empress of Amazon Lily from two generations ago and ex-captain of the Kuja Pirates; she says that, to be frank, they got lucky, and with her current reputation she is pretty certain she would not win a head-on fight against Blackbeard these days. The page reframes Amazon Lily's security: geography and legend are no longer enough against the new age of Navy technology and emperor ambition.

The Kuja discuss the Navy's new weapons, with Hancock saying it sounds like the Navy is looking to replace the Seven Warlords with them. The warriors say that even after everything, those two Seraphim did not have a single scratch on them, and that one looked just like big sister did when she was a child. Elsewhere, a ship reports that it will be docking at Egghead Port soon. The narration turns to the kidnapping of Captain Koby, hero of the Rocky Port incident. Word spreads across the world that Koby has been abducted by one of the Four Emperors, Blackbeard, and that his current status is unknown. The chapter ends with Koby's face on the report, making the Amazon Lily invasion the beginning of the Captain Koby Incident.

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