The Eleven Supernovas

At Sabaody, Luffy floors a third bounty hunter while three companions cheer him on, namely the octopus Hatchan, the mermaid Camie, and the starfish Pappag, with the reindeer and the skeleton also traveling in the party. Hatchan explains they have wandered into the Lawless Zone, a stretch of twenty-nine mangroves usually claimed by pirates and hunters instead of tourists, and that his coating-expert friend waits at Grove 13. The group reaches a rip-off place run by Shakuyaku, a woman with a cigarette between her lips who holds a bloodied patron that tried to skip his tab. She greets Hatchan warmly, pleased he has left piracy behind, and offers the crew food, only to catch Luffy and Brook already raiding her fridge. Admitting she is well-informed, she recalls being chased by Garp four decades earlier, which leaves Luffy puzzling over her true age.

Asked about Rayleigh the Bubble Coater, Shakky says he vanished half a year back and can look after himself. She warns the group to stay cautious, since eleven fearsome rookies, counting both Luffy and Zoro, crossed the Grand Line by separate routes and reached Sabaody, earning the label of Supernovas for bounties above 100 million Berries, one of which even outstrips Luffy's own. The story then tours the rival crews: Capone Bege eyeing Jewelry Bonney's endless eating, the card-reading Basil Hawkins sparing a crewman from a foreseen death, the long-armed Scratchmen Apoo taunting Eustass Kid in battle, and the sky-born monk Urouge trading blows with Kid's man Killer until the former marine X Drake breaks the two apart. As Drake departs, a composed Trafalgar Law quietly wonders aloud about the tally of lives Drake has taken.

The cover continues the CP9's Independent Report, with Blueno hosting a tiny circus that sends a hybrid-wolf Jabra leaping through a burning hoop to help fund Lucci's operation. Shakuyaku enters here as a former pirate active forty years ago and often pursued by Garp, and her husband Rayleigh, also an ex-pirate, gets his first mention. The Super Rookie term debuts; nine additional Supernovas are named with their bounties, among them Eustass Kid at 315 million, whose figure beats Luffy's because his crew injures civilians. Shakky notes Rayleigh outstrips all these rookies a hundredfold, and one of Law's crewmates is revealed as a polar bear.