Roger's Adventure

Emerging safely from Skypiea, the crew arrives at Water 7, where Oden and the two minks admit a red Poneglyph sits in each of their homelands. The delayed news irritates Roger, though a duplicate rubbing already belonging to him accounts for one of Big Mom's Road Poneglyphs, so his odds of assembling the whole set leave him thrilled. A final meeting with Tom follows, and when Oden invites a young Cutty Flam along, the orphan declines, unwilling to risk being deserted by pirates once more.

Voices reach both Roger and Oden as the ship travels below the surface toward Fish-Man Island. Neptune stops them, uneasy over a prophecy that his kingdom's gates will be broken. A Sea King then rips open the bubble wall, and the king reads it as the prophecy coming true regardless. A three-year-old Shyarly explains their agitation: the Sea Kings stir because a Mermaid Princess is soon to be born.

Leading the pirates to his Road Poneglyph and to the stone bearing Joy Boy's apology, Neptune cannot present Poseidon, which is missing despite what Skypiea's writing claimed. His theory is that the daughter Shyarly foresees, born within a decade and able to speak with Sea Kings, will be that weapon. Rayleigh reassures him that they seek the fortune of the weapon's maker, not the weapon.

Pressing on toward Wano, Toki collapses with a fever, and Crocus judges that she cannot keep sailing. Inuarashi, Nekomamushi, and Oden decide to remain at her side, but she orders Oden to keep his vow and see the journey through. Pleas from his retainers to stay and rule are hushed by Toki, and Oden departs without glancing back at the factory-strewn land he could not bear to abandon twice.

Zou comes next, where letters from the minks are delivered to Duke Hitsugisukan and the last of the Road Poneglyphs is found within the whale tree. Pedro's plea to join is gently refused, Roger deciding the young mink's time has not yet come. As they near the destination, Buggy falls ill, so Shanks stays behind with him, promising the two will one day make the crossing on a ship of their own.

Reaching the final island and conquering the Grand Line, the crew uncovers what history had concealed: the significance of the D. bloodline, the truth of the Ancient Weapons, the events of the blank century, and Wano's forgotten connection to the outside world. Joy Boy's treasure is met with nothing but laughter, and Roger, wishing he had lived in that man's age, dubs the place Laugh Tale.