The guardians are waiting until Nekomamushi comes back with Marco.
Marco has been working as a doctor in a small island. He doesn’t discriminate against young, old, male, or female, so he is respected by the whole village. He is talking to Nekomamushi. This village was found by Whitebead. As it was once a poor country, they were not able to gather the necessary funds to continue to be affiliated to the world government. As a result, the island was attacked by pirates, and the country collapsed, and more and children become orphans. Whitebead was one of those orphans. After becoming a pirate, Whitebead continued to care about the island, and secretly send them money. After the war, Blackbead invaded this island, and Marco and the rest went to fight Blackbeard, but they stood no chance, and they were robbed everything. The only thing that was left to them was this small village, so this is their only keepsake of Whitebeard. Shanks created a grave close to the village.
As Weevil is attacking everyone connected to Whitebeard, they expect that they will eventually go after Marco and this village. Weevil is after Whitebead’s inheritance. Apparently, Weevil’s mother was on Whitebead’s ship 40 years ago.
[Wano]
Franky, Usopp, and Robin are disguised as some workers. As instructed by Kinemon, Zoro is disguised as someone part of the town. The shogun of Wano is called “Orochi”, and the ones obeying him are all also connected to Kaidou. Once they cause trouble, it will also be reported to Kaidou, so until they are ready to fight, they have to act like they are part of the country, and quietly execute their mission.
However, the town is getting noisy. Apparently, a murder who has been attacking people randomly has been caught by the magistrate, and has he has now to commit Seppuku. The one who got caught is called, “Zorojirou”. 23 years ago, during the fiasco with pirates, the legendary sword Shusui vanished, and as Zoro carried Shusui with him, the magistrate framed Zoro as the murderer, and took Shusui away from Zoro. After Zoro is given a small katana to commit seppuku, he realizes that the magistrate is the murderer, so Zoro attacks him.
Zoro: “I’m sorry! Kinemon!!”
END: "Wano arc starts. "