Short Summary
A cover page mini-arc that focuses on the newly-formed Straw Hat Grand Fleet, and their adventures after Dressrosa.Long Summary
The Beautiful Pirates
While his ship sails, Cavendish looks back on his childhood. The prince of a country, he was already a supreme Chick Magnet as a young boy. By the time he was a young man, a minor crisis had enveloped his nation- No girl wanted to marry anyone else! And so, Cavendish was sent away from his nation with "only" several million Beri and a few dozen servants. This is why there are two ships of fangirls chasing after the Beautiful Pirates, a story Suleiman felt was too long.
The Barto Club Pirates
The Barto Club arrives on an island and beat up a bunch of pirates causing trouble. They start selling Straw Hat merchandise to the townsfolk. When they learn the island is under the protection of Red-Haired Shanks, Bartolomeo burns their flag much to the people's horror.
The Happo Navy
The Happo Navy returns home. Sai encounters his arranged fiancee. Breaking off the engagement goes over about as well as expected... she beats him senseless and her father yells at Chinjao for leading him on that Sai would marry his daughter. We then learn it's for the best that Sai didn't marry her, because greedy Uhoricia already has plenty of husbands to spare. Now dressed in royal garbs, Sai and Baby 5 finally have their wedding.
The XXX Gym Martial Arts Alliance
Ideo and his men spot two ships fighting each other, so they go in and take them both out. The ships are revealed to belong to a group of Longleg Tribe and Longarm Tribe, respectively. After Ideo's group put a stop to their fight, they all decide to make a new ship out of the wreck and spare parts. Leaving the two tribes behind, they declare their intention to be pirates and rename themselves the Ideo Pirates.
The Tonta Corps
Leo and his fellow Dwarves, having been outfitted with pirate garb provided by Viola and Rebecca, help complete the repairs to Dressrosa. In gratitude, the townspeople give them an appropriately-sized ship of their own, the Usoland. After checking it out, the Tonta Corps learn that they have been assigned to accompany King Riku to the Reverie.
Giant Warrior Pirates
Hajrudin, along with his fellow giants, abandon Buggy's Pirate Temp Agency to set out on their own. Besides Hajrudin, the captain, this band of includes Stansen, the shipwright, Rodo, the navigator, Goldberg, the cook, and Gerth, the doctor. All five of this S-class pirates were placed on the list of deserters from Buggy's Delivery.
Yonta Maria Grand Fleet
Orlumbus returns to his homeland the Standing Kingdom and turns in his official resignation to the king. After fleeing the king's anger and armies for stealing the 56-ship fleet, Orlumbus begins his life as a pirate. They soon come upon an island to attack, but find that the people there are poor. Orlumbus instead gives them goods and bids the island farewell, his first expedition as a pirate failed.
Sidestory
Meanwhile, in a town that specializes in dyed goods, we find that Bellamy has retired from piracy and is learning to become a craftsman.
Tropes
- Department of Redundancy Department: The first cover page is named: "The Beautiful Pirates Beautifully Sail the Beautiful Seas".
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Bartolomeo burns down the flag of Red-Haired Shanks, despite the possible consequences (Shanks probably wouldn't care, given his personality, but Bartolomeo has no way to know that).
- Dramatic Irony: As an act of defiance, Bartolomeo sets fire to one of the Four Emperor's flags- The flag of Red Hair Shanks. Can you imagine what Shanks' gonna have to say when he learns this nimrod is Luffy's biggest fan and didn't know Luffy is Shanks' number one fan?
- Fangirl: The whole reason Cavendish told Suleiman his backstory was because two ships' worth of fangirls were chasing them and Cavendish wanted to let him know there was no need to actually attack them. Suleiman feels he took too long to explain all that.
- Gonk: Sai's arranged (and now former) fiancee Uhoricia.
- Not Good with Rejection: Uhoricia beats up Sai for breaking their engagement. Her father(?) isn't too happy with it, either, apparently. But then we learn Uhoricia is being a brat, as 25 other husbands isn't already enough for her.
- Now, Buy the Merchandise: In-universe. After crushing the toughest guy in the harbor, Bartolomeo and his crew are going around selling Straw Hat merchandise on an island.
- Reverse Harem: Turns out that Sai's ex-fiancee Uhoricia already has 25 other husbands.
- She Is All Grown Up: Gerth, the doctor in Hajrudin's crew, first appeared as one of Charlotte Linlin's playmates in Elbaf. She's now a full-grown and filled-out woman during the half-century since then.
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: According to Cavendish, he was so popular in his homeland that it caused a crisis because none of the young ladies wanted to get married to anybody else. It forced him to leave his homeland with only 74 servants and a mere 500 million berries to his name.
- Spanner in the Works: Ironically, Baby 5 turned out to be this. If she hadn't come along and Sai hadn't agreed to marry her, he would've married Uhoricia, and been just another husband in her collection.
