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Chapter 679: The G-5 Spirit
This chapter's foreshadowing ledger — what it plants, what it pays off, and what debuts here. Locked seeds pay off beyond your ⚓ progress; tap one to reveal it anyway.
- Plants
- 2 seeds🌱 chekhov-explicit🌱 chekhov-explicit
- Firsts
- Caesar Clown deliberately sacrifices his own remaining lab guards: he orders the walls of Structure A blasted open and the lone exit gate sealed to flood the building with 'Land of the Dead' and trap everyone — heroes and his own soldiers alike — to give his underworld brokers 'a proper showing' of the weapon's totality
- Caesar's lab geography is mapped on-screen: the 'Third Lab Complex (Caesar's Lab)' — Structures A, B, C, D, R plus the front entrance — connected by a single corridor whose closing gate is the only escape off the building
- Brownbeard has turned against Caesar — alive (despite the off-page 'eliminated' report) and carrying the fleeing Straw Hats and G-5 marines toward the gate; the marines note 'Did he turn traitor on the master?'
- Kin'emon, disguised as Vergo (the 'Captain Copycat'), intervenes to herd the G-5 to the gate, telling them 'this is no time to fight' — first on-page use of his appearance-copying ability as an ally
- Vergo declares he will personally hunt down Law and Smoker rather than trust Caesar's gas-trap ('I can't leave this entirely in your hands')
- Robin is on the scene acting on Luffy's request ('Luffy asked me to take care of something')
- Caesar's men fire a calibrated cannon to blast open the outer wall of Structure A, flooding the base with killer gas; many G-5 sailors are left behind to die and Captain Tashigi is carried to safety against her will, devastated
Arc: Punk Hazard · Saga: Dressrosa · Released:
Summary
As “Land of the Dead” smothers Punk Hazard, Caesar gloats to his hidden underworld brokers that no place is left for life — yet his monitors show no corpses at the front entrance, proof his prisoners escaped the cage. Rather than let them flee through the lab, Caesar coldly orders the walls of Structure A blasted open and the single connecting gate sealed, flooding the building with gas and sacrificing his own remaining guards for the sake of “a proper showing.” Vergo declares he won’t trust the trap and will hunt Law and Smoker personally. In the corridors, Luffy smashes through a centaur guard (Lin the Machete); Smoker and Law read the closing-gate alarm; the G-5 marines abandon their fight with the Straw Hats to race for the same exit. A figure who looks like Vergo — actually Kin’emon disguised, the “Captain Copycat” — herds the marines onward, while a betrayed-and-still-alive Brownbeard carries the wounded toward the gate and Robin works a job Luffy asked of her. Caesar’s gunners blast the outer wall, the killer gas pours in, and the escapees barely squeeze through the closing gate — but many G-5 sailors are left behind. Carried to safety against her will, Captain Tashigi screams to go back for her trapped men as Caesar, in gas form, laughs that they will “all be DEAD in the end.”
New reveals
- Caesar sacrifices his own men. With his prisoners loose inside Structure A, Caesar orders the walls “destroyed” to let “LAND OF THE DEAD flow inside,” then seals the gate to isolate Structure A — knowingly killing his own remaining guards “to give our brokers a proper showing” (pp. 5–6).
- Caesar’s lab map is shown on-screen: the Third Lab Complex (Caesar’s Lab) — Structures A, B, C, D, R plus the Front Entrance — linked by a single corridor; the closing gate is the only exit off the building (p. 6).
- Brownbeard is alive and turned traitor. Despite the off-page “eliminated on Caesar’s orders” report (Ch. 667), the croc-centaur carries the fleeing crew and marines to the gate; G-5 ask “Did he turn traitor on the master?!” (pp. 12, 15, 18).
- Kin’emon’s “Captain Copycat” disguise. A Vergo look-alike blocks and then herds the G-5 to safety (“this is no time to fight, G-5!!”); the marines dub him “Captain Copycat” — Kin’emon using an appearance-copying power as an ally (p. 13).
- Vergo goes hunting. He refuses to leave Law and Smoker to the gas-trap — “I can’t leave this entirely in your hands!!” — and sets off personally (p. 7).
- Robin on assignment. Robin reveals she is acting on Luffy’s request — “Luffy asked me to take care of something” (p. 15).
- Cannon breach. Caesar’s gunners outside calibrate and fire on “the outer wall of third laboratory, Structure A,” blasting it open so the gas floods the base (pp. 16–17).
- A small sedated dragon (Momonosuke) is hauled inside; it “can’t fly right now because it’s been given a sedative,” and onlookers find it “almost cute” (p. 12).
Foreshadowing seeds planted
Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)
Mentions / appearances
- Characters: Caesar Clown, Vergo, Monet (referenced with Caesar in the control room), Trafalgar Law, Smoker, Tashigi, Kin’emon (disguised as Vergo, “Captain Copycat”), Brownbeard, Robin, Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Brook, Nami, Chopper, Momonosuke (sedated dragon), Lin the Machete (one-off centaur guard of “Building 8”)
- Crews / groups: Straw Hat Pirates, Marines (G-5 unit), Heart Pirates (Law)
- Fruits / lore: Gasu Gasu no Mi (Caesar’s gas form + “Land of the Dead”), Ope Ope no Mi (Law / the heart-collateral time-pressure)
- Locations: Punk Hazard (Caesar’s lab — Third Lab Complex, Structures A–D/R, the R66-style gate), New World (broker audience), G-5
- Cover story: Caribou’s New World Kee Hee Hee, Vol. 5 — “Here Comes Coribou” (Caribou’s crew in bubbles, with Coribou); header illustration p. 1.
Notable panels
- p. 1 — Title page + cover-story header: Caribou’s New World Kee Hee Hee, Vol. 5 — “Here Comes Coribou.”
- p. 3 — Caesar names his spectacle: “This is my big public demonstration of Land of the Dead!!” (map of his prisoners overlaid).
- p. 6 — On-screen schematic of Caesar’s lab (Structures A/B/C/D/R, Front Entrance, “Land of the Dead” front) as he orders the gate sealed.
- p. 8 — Luffy one-punches the centaur guard “Lin the Machete” (“What kind of ‘taur are you supposed to be?!”).
- p. 13 — “Captain Copycat”: Kin’emon, disguised as Vergo, blades the G-5 then herds them to the gate.
- pp. 16–17 — Cannon breach blasts open Structure A’s wall; killer gas floods the base (“Anyone left behind is a DEAD man!!!”).
- p. 18 — Brownbeard leaps through the closing gate with the wounded (“And we’re through!!!”).
- p. 19 — Tashigi screams to go back for her trapped men; Caesar (gas form) gives a skull-ringed thumbs-up — “you’ll all be DEAD in the end!!!”
- p. 20 — SBS Question Corner (volume column): the Vergo silhouette quiz (answer A — “Vergo with a hamburger patty stuck to his face”; B = Bon Clay, C = Lulu), Usopp’s chikuwa nose, breast-bands gag.
Open questions raised
- Will any of the G-5 sailors and guards left behind survive the gas, or is the unit gutted?
- With the gate sealed and the base full of gas, how do the escapees actually get off Punk Hazard?
- Vergo is hunting Law and Smoker personally — what happens when he reaches them?
- What is the nature of Kin’emon’s appearance-copying disguise power (“Captain Copycat”)?