Chapter 159

Cover
Vol: 18 Pg: 67

Jango's Dance Paradise Vol. 26: "The Man Who Came Back"

Jango, back in his original clothes, returns to help Fullbody.

Quick Summary
After been saved by Ace, the Straw Hat reach the Going Merry and departs to the desert. While Luffy explains his friends that Ace and him are brothers, Ace his jumping on board for a quick family reunion.

Long Summary
The Baroque Works association has some strange rules, in order to reach the envied agent seats, its members do not hesitate to kill eachothers. Mr. 11, who has been arrested by the marines, learns it at his expense of.

Meanwhile the Straw Hat have escaped the marines thanks to Ace and are going back to the Going Merry. They will depart to the desert in the search of the rebells leader. But before leaving, Vivi entrust Carue with a paper explaining her situation and what she has discovered. The duck has to deliver it to her father so that Cobra understand there is still hope.

On board of the Merry, Luffy tells his friend about Ace. He his is 3 years older brother and is a pirate as well. Talking about the wolf, Ace appears suddenly onboard. He propose Luffy to join the Whitebeard Pirates as himself but Luffy declines. Unfortunatly their encounter is a quick one, indeed Ace his chasing after a pirate named Blackbeard who committed a great crime. Before leaving, he gives Luffy a strange piece of paper which is supposed to help them see eachother again. He then help again his brother by getting rid of the Baroque works Billion boats in an instant making the Straw Hat able to leave safely.

Back in Nanohana, Smoker looks concerned, but not because he was not able to catch the Straw Hat, rather because he saw that the princess of Alabasta was among them.

Chapter Quote
"The next time we meet will be at the pirate summit": this sentence can be found in the traditionnal english scanlation and often leads to the misunderstanding that a pirate meeting will occurs. This is a misinterpretation (Cf Mythbusters), the sentence shall rather be understood as something like "The next time we meet, we'll both be high ranked pirates"

Plot Points

 * Ace ate Mera Mera no Mi
 * Ace is searching for a guy named Blackbeard who killed one of his crewmate
 * Ace gives a paper to Luffy
 * Smoker noticed that Vivi is among the Straw Hat

Characters Introduced

 * Mr. 11
 * Blackbeard: someone researched by Ace

Returning Characters

 * Straw Hat
 * Luffy
 * Sanji
 * Chopper
 * Carue
 * Zoro
 * Nami
 * Usopp
 * Vivi
 * Marines
 * Smoker
 * Tashigi
 * Whitebeard pirates
 * Portgas D. Ace

Attacks

 * Ace
 * Hiken (Fire Fist)

Anime episode
p2 to p4 and p7 to p19: Episode 95

p5 and p6: Episode 96

In the anime, Ace continues his journey with the Straw Hat into some filler episodes, so he only give Luffy the paper in Episode 101.