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Summary:
at some point of the operation to rescue Koby, Garp’s group comes beneath assault from their former comrade Kuzan, now one of the massive captains of the Blackbeard Pirates, forcing Garp to cope with him whilst a flashback happens, revealing how Kuzan joined their group. meanwhile, the coronary heart Pirates had been defeated by way of Blackbeard himself, forcing Bep to apply a drug advanced by means of Chopper to exchange into Sulong’s form to get law to safety. Garp lands at the island and Prince Grus uses his satan fruit powers to melt the autumn of Garp’s ship. He tells the pirates that in the event that they simply blink he’ll hurt them badly, most effective to peer that they were all already unconscious. He notes that he looks like he is misplaced contact, leaving the opposite pirates in disbelief after all the damage he is brought on. He sees Koby and Hibari strolling closer to him as Helmeppo cries tears of pleasure that Koby is k. but, Hibari is frozen, courtesy of Kuzan, who is found out to be the tenth substantial Captain of the Blackbeard Pirates. Koby begs Kuzan to unfreeze Hibari, but Hibari refuses, pronouncing that it’d look awful for them if Koby escaped at the same time as Blackbeard become gone. because it turns out, approximately a year after Kuzan’s conflict with Sakazuki for the fleet admiral position at Punk danger, the Blackbeard Pirates cross paths with Kuzan consuming at a bar. Blackbeard asks Kuzan why he iced over his group, such as the large Sanjuan Wolf, earlier than worrying that he call it off, but Kuzan tells him to chill out and warns him not to use Gura Gura no Mi and threat breaking his frozen group. Kuzan says his team decided to fight him. sooner or later, the previous admiral thaws everybody out and finally ends up having a drink with Blackbeard and his team as he talks approximately his warfare in opposition to Akainu and shows off the lack of his left leg, which he has to often update with the Hie Hie no Mi. while noting that while Akainu wasn’t that badly injured, he wasn’t completely unscathed either. At one factor, Catarina Devon asks Kuzan if he knows whatever about the “flame-marked man”. while Kuzan asks what he means, Jesus Burgess tells him about the road Poneglyphs and the way Kaidou and large mom are each regarded to have one, however they do not know the location of the opposite two, but they heard a rumor that the “flame-marked man” has one . Kuzan jokingly says that he is the one she is speakme about. but, neither of them agree with him, and Laffitte says that this guy sails in a pitch-black ship and everybody who sails near him may be swallowed up via the vortex. Shiryu believes the man is operating for the world authorities, reasoning that they would want to cover one of the Poneglyphs on the road to prevent other pirates from locating the only Piece. Kuzan tells the Blackbeard Pirates that the Poneglyphs simplest give him sour recollections; despite the fact that he says he did not see the crimson Poneglyph on Ohara, he commonly recollects his pal and Nico Robin and how he decided to take his destiny into his own palms. The others are unmoved by Kuzan’s sob tale as Laffitte asks Blackbeard if they have to kill him and take his satan Fruit for themselves. Kuzan hears this and receives irritated, but Blackbeard tells him he doesn’t suggest to. In reality, he wants Kuzan to enroll in his group. Kuzan at first refuses to enroll in, but Blackbeard factors out that he sees his pirate team as a gang of people searching out for their very own hobbies. except, he now not works for the world government, so he can do anything he wants. back in the gift, Garp needs that Kuzan unfreeze Hibari, however Hibari tells him that he’s continually trendy how direct Garp is, so he wants to do matters his way. He asks if Garp can significantly kill his former primary protégé to shop his new favourite through freezing him with an ice ball, but Garp brushes himself off, reminding Kuzan that he taught him to stay within the present. He then tells Kuzan that handiest weaklings lose their manner as he grabs his face and slams him to the floor with a move known as the Blue hollow. meanwhile, on Victor Island, Blackbeard defeated Trafalgar law and destroyed the Polar Tang. He tells law that the pirates whose hearts he stole in Rocky Port to sign up for the Seven Warlords are nevertheless on Hachinos and he must probable kill him and bring his coronary heart there as a trophy. at the same time as educate debates what to do as soon as he has Ope Ope no Mi, Bepo assaults him in his Sulong form, which he became capable of accumulate outside of the full moon way to a special drug given to him by Chopper. He buys sufficient time to grab law and bounce into the sea, but law tells him to go returned for the group. Bepo tells him he cannot do it, but he believes they will continue to exist as he desperately pleads together with his captain not to die. The narration then states that the coronary heart Pirates were soundly defeated on Victory Island.