Chapter 159

Chapter 159 is titled "Come On".

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.

Short Summary
After been saved by Ace, the Straw Hat Pirates 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 each other for the seat. Mr. 11, who has been arrested by the Marines, learns it at his own expense.

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, Cobra, so that he will understand there is still hope.

On board of the Merry, Luffy tells his friends about Ace. He is his brother (who is 3 years older) and is a pirate as well. Suddenly, Ace appears on board. He proposes for Luffy and his crew to join the Whitebeard Pirates, but Luffy declines. Unfortunately their encounter is a quick one since Ace is currently chasing after a pirate named Blackbeard, who committed a crime of killing a crewmate. Before leaving, he gives Luffy a strange piece of paper which is supposed to help them see each other again. Ace then gets rid of the Baroque works Billion boats, who were targeting him, in an instant.

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 Notes

 * 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 notice that Vivi is among the Straw Hats.
 * "The next time we meet will be at the pirate summit": this sentence can be found in the traditional 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"
 * 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.

Anime episode
p2 to p4: episode 95

p7 to p12: episode 95

p14 to p19: episode 95

p5 and p6: episode 96

p13: episode 101