Summary:
Bellamy laughs at Luffy’s demand to return the Mont Blanc Cricket gold. After their last encounter in Mock Town, he doubts that Luffy even knows how to throw a punch. Sarquiss still believes that the reward poster for Luffy with his new Beli 100,000,000 reward is fake. He’s not even sure the old one for Beli30,000,000 is real as he watches Luffy fight Bellamy. Bellamy breaks the roof they’re on and lunges at Luffy with a Spring Snipe, but Luffy jumps out of the way. The Bellamy Pirates sit back and “watch the show”. Bellamy manages to hit Luffy as he falls from the rooftops, smashing him onto the sidewalks. Luffy gets up as if nothing happened, but Bellamy is still unimpressed by his efforts.
Wanting to finish it off, Bellamy starts jumping out of all the nearby buildings around Luffy with his Spring Hopper technique, while mocking Luffy for being among the dream chasing pirates. An angry Luffy cracks his knuckles and remembers Bellamy asking if he even knew how to throw a punch. As Bellamy lunges at him to finish him off, Luffy slams down and slams Bellamy across the walkways hard enough to leave a fist print in the now unconscious pirate’s head. Sarquiss urges Bellamy to get up, thinking it’s a joke. But it turns out that the drunk who found Luffy’s new wanted poster was right about Luffy’s notoriety. As Bellamy’s fist drips with blood, Luffy demands Cricket’s gold back, and the townspeople scatter in panic after realizing that Luffy and Zoro’s bounties are real.
Back at Cricket’s camp, all of his co-workers are back to work refitting the Going Merry thanks to Chopper’s care. Nami scolds Zoro for not going with Luffy to challenge Bellamy, even though he was also beaten up before. He doesn’t take kindly to her insults and Usopp tries to cool them off when they start fighting in their argument on the ship. Back in Mock Town, Luffy picks up Cricket’s gold. With Bellamy still lying on the broken boardwalk, Sarquiss tries to challenge Luffy, but the others hold him back. When asked where he was going, Luffy raises his fist, still covered in Bellamy’s blood, causing Sarquiss to fall to the ground in fear. Luffy then points up and tells them, “Sky!”
Dracule Mihawk drifting in the ocean gets new posters of Luffy and Zoro. They are pleased to see that they can now shake up the world government by defeating the Crocodile.
Meanwhile, in Mary Geoise, the Five Elders—the de facto rulers of the world—find out from a marine that “Red Hair” is trying to get in touch with “Whitebeard” via messenger. They find that the meeting of the two is too dangerous and must quickly find a successor for the defeated Crocodile among the Seven Warriors of the Sea in order to maintain the balance between the “Great Powers”. They also admit that they cannot leave Luffy unchecked. Indeed, a meeting of the remaining sea warriors was ordered. Two come: Donquijote Doflamingo and Bartholomew Kuma, both of whom had huge bounties before becoming robbers. When they arrive, Doflamingo is toying with the two marines present, using his powers to make them fight each other out of sheer boredom. He was told to stand down by Marine Admiral Sengoku, who was impressed that two of the remaining six sea warriors had also appeared. Doflamingo said that he only came because his “island business” was doing so well that he was bored. Shortly after, Mihawk joins them, making him three warriors. He says he was only a bystander in the proceedings because he is interested in the pirates responsible for defeating the Crocodile.
Shortly after, a strange voice joins in and a tall, lanky man in tap shoes bursts into the room. One of the marines present identifies him as Lafitte, a former peace officer from West Blue who was persecuted from his country for his cruel methods. He says he’s here to recommend someone to replace Crocodile…
Somewhere at sea, the captain receives a letter from Shanks. His men insult the messenger, Rockstar, a relative newcomer to the Red Hair Pirates who has Beli’s bounty of 94,000,000. The intended recipient of the message, Whitebeard, tears up Shanks’ letter. The captain appears to be sick as he has nurses all over him and is connected to several IVs and oxygen lines. He tells Rockstar that if Shanks wants to send a message, he should deliver it in person and bring good booze with it. Rockstar highlights Shanks from Den Den Mushi. Shanks apologizes for putting Rockstar through all this and tells his men to prepare to set sail to meet Whitebeard.
In the Mary Geoise, Lafitte advises his captain, Marshall D. Teach, to replace Crocodile as Warlord. Sengoku doesn’t even know who this pirate is, but Lafitte tells him that his crew, the Blackbeard Pirates, is making a plan to release their names.
In Mock Town, while the citizens were talking about Bellamy’s defeat, Teach looks at Luffy’s bounty poster and comments on it. Sarquiss then runs at him and tells him to get off, so Teach rams his head into the ground. He then declares that he does not intend to capture weaklings, but one man out of 100,000,000 Beli, and so he and his companions begin to leave the city, discussing Lafitte and fate.
However, Luffy is already on his way to the other side of Jaya with Cricket’s gold.