Chapter 4, eh. Even in comparison to the average filler chapter, very very little happens here.
In our last episode, Asshat Luffy (btw, he's wearing that hat because he is bald as an eagle) kicked Aleppo's ass for some reason or another. The latter now makes a great deal of never having been hit by his father, Ass-Hand Morgana. Is it common for the One People to hit their children? Luffy sure could've used some smacking education, but alas, as an orphan he lived the good life.
So Gestapo asks his father, Ass-Hand Morgana, to kill Luffy for him, because he's trouble. Now what does his father, the Marines(tm)' captain do? He hits him, after a lifetime of not hitting him. What are the odds, huh? Chekov's gun much?
Luffy bickers with Zoro, who doesn't want to join him and become a pirate. Now let's see whether that will happen with future potential crew members as well, eh? The PIRATE ERA all right, where nobody wants to become a pie rat. Drinking game: take a sip whenever Luffy shouts that he wants to become the Pirate King or somebody else refuses to become a pirate. Anyway, Zoro loves to be tied to a post and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
After that filler^2, the plot finally moves on a little. Captain Morgan turns out to be more paranoid than Hitler in his bunker days, outright killing (!) a subordinate Marines officer for refusing to kill (!) a little sister of Nami (the one that tried to poison/feed Zoro at the stake in the previous chapter). Course he may just have wounded that guy, but fuck if we, the readers, are ever told. Characters in One Piece, save for the main characters, are throwaway one-shows anyway, inevitably only turning up again 500 chapters later, minimum.
Now Ex-Ess Morgan deserves some special mention as one of the weirdest freaks in a manga where all characters are weird freaks. His lower jaw has been replaced by metal, so How would he be able to talk if his c
