Cover Page: Crocodile and Daz Bonez walking casually away from a fire along with their entourage of hippopotamuses.

Porchemy continued his interrogation of Luffy, badly wounding him. Ace and Sabo appeared and rescued him, and Sabo decided to stay with Ace and Luffy. Due to their actions, Porchemy was killed by Bluejam and Ace, Sabo, and Luffy became infamous throughout Goa Kingdom.

Porchemy took Luffy to an abandoned capsized ship where the Bluejam Pirates tried beating the location of Ace and Sabo out of him. After failing due to Luffy's Gomu Gomu no Mi abilities, Porchemy pulled out spiked gloves with which to beat the boy, and sent his men to look for Ace and Sabo in the meantime. At the same time, Ace and Sabo rushed to hide their treasure from Porchemy's men, who were unsuccessful at finding information from the locals. Later in the evening, Ace finished hiding all of their treasure, but Sabo returned to reveal that Luffy still had not betrayed their location. At the same time, Captain Bluejam grew tired of waiting, and Porchemy, knowing this, grew increasingly frustrated and moved to kill Luffy.

Ace and Sabo then came to Luffy's rescue, cutting his ropes. Sabo prepared to run, but Ace, having resolved not to run from any enemy, faced off against Porchemy, forcing Sabo to turn back and help defeat the pirate. When Captain Bluejam found the beaten Porchemy, he killed his underling for the failure. Afterwards, when questioned by Ace as to why he did not betray their location, Luffy responded that Ace was the only person he could rely on, and wanted him to live. Ace responded by calling Luffy a spoiled brat, which sparked an argument between them about crying at their age and being a pirate, until it was interrupted by Sabo, who now needed a place to hide outside the Gray Terminal.

They decided to have Sabo stay with Dadan as well (both Dadan and Sabo recognized each other's names and their infamy), and the three of them started fighting wild animals, the town punks, villains in the Gray Terminal, and pirates in the inlet, until they became known in the Goa Kingdom. One day, Dadan read in the newspaper about the World Nobles' upcoming visit to the kingdom.

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