Chapter Summaries

Crocodile turned on Nico Robin when the Poneglyph failed to reveal Pluton, but Barn intervened and brought Luffy to face him. After Luffy defeated Crocodile, rain fell over Alabasta, and Vivi, Chaka, and Koza tried to stop the armies from fighting.

• Crocodile learned that the Poneglyph contained no information about Pluton and tried to kill Nico Robin, who attacked him with water and a blade.
• Crocodile dodged Robin’s attack and moved to strike her, but Barn’s slash stopped him and Barn tossed Luffy toward him.
• Luffy defeated Crocodile, and the wounded Crocodile flew from the palace as the Straw Hat Pirates and Vivi saw his fall.
• Rain began falling over Alabasta, and Vivi told the armies that the nightmare was over.
• Rebel soldiers rejected Vivi’s words and raised their weapons, but Chaka ordered the Royal Army to lower theirs and Koza called on the Rebel Army to do the same.

After Crocodile’s plot was exposed, the rebellion ended and rain returned to Alabasta. Tashigi and Smoker dealt with the aftermath, while Tashigi regretted helping the Straw Hat Pirates escape.

• Koza told the Royal Army and rebels to put down their weapons, and Igaram announced that the war was over.
• Barn rescued Robin and helped Luffy and Cobra escape the collapsing Royal Tomb, while Tashigi reported Crocodile and the dance powder to the Marines.
• Crocodile was sent to Impel Down, and the World Government revoked his titles and privileges.
• Vivi checked on the wounded Koza as Alabasta’s people celebrated the rain, and Dodo rejoiced in Yuba.
• Tashigi stopped Marines from attacking the unconscious Straw Hat Pirates, then returned to Smoker and apologized for helping them escape.

After the Crocodile incident, Smoker rejected the government’s attempt to credit the Marines and concealed Barn’s presence in Alabasta. As the kingdom rebuilt, Barn advised Zoro on swordsmanship and invited the newly freed Robin to join him.

• Smoker rebuked Headquarters for planning to award him and Tashigi credit for Crocodile’s defeat, then lied about Barn’s presence to protect Alabasta from a Buster Call.
• Tashigi vowed to become stronger, while Smoker angrily told Hina to pass an insult to the officials at Headquarters.
• Usopp and Sanji gathered supplies as Alabasta’s people rebuilt, and Zoro resumed training while still wounded.
• Barn demonstrated how to turn sword slashes into waves and told Zoro he had reached the threshold, then left with Mr. 1.
• Barn met Robin in a secluded room, asked how freedom felt, and invited her to join him.

Barn and the Straw Hat Pirates celebrated Alabasta’s peace, while Cobra thanked them and Barn asked about Pluton. The crew left secretly that night, and Vivi stayed behind, finding comfort in the quiet even as she missed them.

• Robin declined Barn’s invitation to join him, and Barn asked Mr. 1 to deliver a Den Den Mushi to Koza before heading to the banquet.
• Barn joined the Straw Hat Pirates and Alabasta’s leaders at a lively banquet, where Cobra thanked them for saving the country.
• Barn asked Cobra whether Pluton was in Alabasta, but Cobra remained silent and gave him no clear answer.
• The Straw Hat Pirates decided to leave that night, while Luffy insisted they eat one more Alabasta meal before departing.
• Igaram hurried to warn the crew that the Marines had issued wanted posters, but found them gone; Vivi said she had sent the Black Duck squad to see them off.
• Vivi told Igaram the crew would not change course even if warned, then went to sleep with Black Duck and reflected on how much she missed her friends.

Vivi said goodbye to Luffy and the Straw Hats because she loved Alabasta, but admitted to Barn that she most wanted to be a free pirate. Barn took her and Black Duck away aboard Laboon as Alabasta celebrated Vivi’s choice.

• Barn gave Vivi until noon the next day to decide whether to join his crew, while Vivi weighed adventure against her duties to Alabasta.
• The Going Merry passed East Harbor, and the crew prepared to leave when Vivi did not appear; Luffy still believed she would come.
• Vivi reached the shore with Barn and told the Straw Hats she could not go with them, thanking them and asking whether they would still call her a friend.
• The Straw Hats silently raised their left arms to show their friendship, and Vivi and Black Duck raised theirs in response.
• After the Going Merry disappeared, Barn asked Vivi what she wanted most, and she declared that she wanted to be a free pirate.
• Barn summoned Fitz and Laboon, then helped Vivi and Black Duck aboard; Cobra accepted Vivi’s choice and started the celebration while Barn reminded Vivi of a condition she had agreed to at the clock tower.

Robin revealed she had been aboard the Going Merry and asked Luffy to let her join the crew, which he accepted. A huge ship and a skeleton then fell from the sky, and Barn and Vivi called out to the crew from below as the Log Pose pointed toward Sky Island.

• At Yuba, Koza and Dodo dug to clear the town, and a cloaked visitor asked for Koza.
• The Going Merry's crew mourned Vivi's departure until Robin revealed herself aboard the ship and asked to become Luffy's companion.
• Luffy accepted Robin, and she began getting along with the crew while Zoro remained suspicious of her.
• A ship fell from the sky into the sea near the Going Merry, creating huge waves, and a skeleton landed on Usopp.
• Nami found that the Log Pose pointed straight up, and a voice from below said its destination had been overridden by Sky Island.
• The crew recognized the voices below as Barn and Vivi.

Barn and the Straw Hats reunited with Vivi and learned that the Log Pose pointed toward a legendary Sky Island. After Luffy found a map of Skypiea aboard a sunken ship, Barn offered a bubble coral to help them salvage its records and pursue the island.

• Barn and Vivi arrived at the Going Merry, where Vivi reunited with the crew and Barn greeted Robin.
• Barn explained that Roger had told him about Sky Island, and Robin urged Nami to trust the Log Pose pointing upward.
• Luffy and Sanji explored the wreck, and Robin identified its remains as the St. Briss, a ship lost over two hundred years ago.
• Luffy found an old map labeled Skypiea, prompting the crew to search the sinking wreck for records about reaching Sky Island.
• Barn offered bubble coral to let the crew dive safely, and Robin recognized it as an item from Fish-Man Island.

Luffy, Sanji, and Zoro explored a sunken ship while Nami and the others encountered the Salvage King and his crew. A gigantic turtle-like Sea King swallowed the Salvage King, Barn, and seemingly the others, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Luffy, Sanji, and Zoro entered the sea and found a wreck as the Salvage King arrived aboard his ship, claiming the sunken vessels as his territory.
• Nami asked the Salvage King to demonstrate a salvage operation, and his crew lowered a Salvage Basket and began pumping air into the wreck.
• Luffy, Sanji, and Zoro were trapped inside the ship when the air burst their bubble, and the Salvage King broke into their compartment to confront them.
• The Salvage King knocked out a sea snake and joined Luffy, Sanji, and Zoro, while a gigantic turtle-like Sea King crept up behind them.
• Barn was dragged into the sea by a bite on his fishing line, and the turtle-like Sea King surfaced, apparently swallowing Barn, the Salvage King, and the others.

The Straw Hats rescued Barn from the giant sea turtle, and Barn’s slash ended the strange darkness and drove off the apparent monsters. After the crew returned with scrap instead of clues about reaching the sky, Robin gave Nami a Log Pose pointing to Jaya.

• The sea turtle dragged the Going Merry into danger, but Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji escaped its mouth and rejoined the crew.
• The Salvage King climbed aboard to reclaim his salvage, then fled when he saw five enormous winged figures in the mist.
• Robin spotted Barn inside the turtle’s mouth, and Fitz brought him the First-Generation Onikiri so he could cut the turtle’s teeth and the five figures.
• Barn reached Laboon and then returned to the Going Merry, while the crew discussed the darkness and the creatures they had seen.
• Nami berated Luffy and the others for bringing back scrap instead of information about reaching the sky, and Robin handed her a Log Pose marked Jaya.

The Straw Hats sailed toward Jaya, hoping to find a way to reach Sky Island without losing their Log Pose recording. They arrived at Mock Town, Jaya’s violent Pirate Paradise, where Barn recognized the place and Luffy met a sickly man whose horse also seemed frail.

• Robin explained that the stolen Eternal Pose pointed to a fixed island, and Nami identified its destination as Jaya.
• After Usopp warned that sailing directly to Jaya could overwrite the Log Pose’s Sky Island record, Luffy insisted they go there and ask for directions.
• Barn recognized Jaya’s west coast and silently realized that Teach was there; a gunman on the island had shot down seagulls.
• The Going Merry reached Mock Town, where Barn described the lawless settlement as Pirate Paradise, and Luffy and Zoro went ashore.
• Luffy approached a sickly man who had fallen from his horse, and the man offered him a basket of black apples after both he and his horse appeared frail.

Barn and the Straw Hats encountered dangerous characters in Mock Town, where Barn recognized a man connected to Blackbeard and confronted members of the Bellamy Pirates. The chapter ended with Saschi learning that Barn Bashut was worth ten billion and deciding to tell Bellamy about him.

• A man offered Luffy a basket of black apples, and Luffy ate one after Zoro refused; Barn stopped Zoro from attacking when he realized Luffy was safe.
• Barn asked the apple seller where Blackbeard was, and the man hurried away without answering.
• Luffy and Zoro became interested in a commotion about a fighting champion, while Nami urged them onward to the Tropical Hotel.
• Saschi and Sarquiss ordered the Straw Hats out of the hotel and mocked them, so Barn cut Sarquiss's hair and threatened him with the First-Generation Onikiri.
• A Bellamy Pirate showed Saschi a bounty poster identifying Barn Bashut as a man worth ten billion, and Saschi decided Bellamy should meet him.

Barn and the Straw Hats visited Mock Town's largest bar while waiting for the Log Pose to finish recording, where Luffy clashed verbally with Teach and the Bellamy Pirates arrived. After Bellamy attacked Barn from behind and was sent crashing through a wall, Barn calmly asked Teach why he was there.

• Barn told Nami that Mock Town was built on pirates' money and that the Log Pose needed four more days to record.
• Luffy and Teach argued over cherry pie, beer, and their competing orders, but Nami stopped them from fighting.
• Teach learned that Luffy claimed to have a thirty-million bounty, then noticed Barn and returned to speak with him.
• Bellamy and the Bellamy Pirates entered, and Bellamy took Zoro's seat beside Barn.
• Bellamy punched Barn from behind, but Barn blocked the blow and sent Bellamy through the bar's wall.
• Barn calmly drank his rum and asked Teach why he was there.

Barn declined to interfere in Teach’s fate and asked him about reaching Sky Island, prompting Bellamy and the bar patrons to mock Luffy’s dreams. Teach defended the enduring power of people’s dreams as the chapter ended.

• Barn told Teach that Ace had set out after him but that Barn would leave the matter to Whitebeard’s crew.
• Barn introduced Luffy as his student, and Teach revealed Barn’s close connection to Whitebeard and his ten-billion bounty.
• Bellamy attacked Barn with Spring Cannon, but Barn dodged every punch with Observation Haki and blasted him away with a finger flick.
• Barn asked Teach for information about Sky Island, and Bellamy mocked the idea while ridiculing Luffy’s dream of becoming Pirate King.
• After Bellamy and his crew left, Teach silenced the bar and declared that people’s dreams never ended.

Teach defended people’s dreams in Mock Town, while Barn encouraged Luffy to ignore those who mocked his goal of reaching Sky Island. Luffy’s crew followed Robin’s map to Mont Blanc Cricket’s home, learned the tale of his likely ancestor Mont Blanc Noland, and were confronted by a man who accused them of coming for gold.

• Teach argued with the tavern crowd about dreams and told Luffy he hoped he could reach Sky Island; Barn then left with Luffy and the cherry pies.
• Back aboard the ship, Robin returned with a map and directed the crew toward Mont Blanc Cricket, a dreamer living across the shore from Mock Town.
• Luffy and his crew reached Cricket’s castle and discovered that much of its grand appearance was only plywood.
• Vivi found the picture book Liar Noland, and Barn told the crew the story of Mont Blanc Noland, who was executed after the king’s expedition found no gold on Jaya Island.
• Robin and Barn suggested that Cricket might be Noland’s descendant, while Luffy mourned the supposedly lying explorer.
• Luffy fell into the sea, and a brawny old man emerged, accusing the crew of seeking gold and threatening to kill them.

The Straw Hat Pirates met Cricket, a diver searching the sea despite suffering from decompression sickness, and learned he was a descendant of Mont Blanc Noland. Cricket explained that his family had been disgraced because Noland was called a liar, but insisted that Noland had been an honest man.

• Luffy fell into the sea, and Sanji fought Cricket until Luffy knocked Cricket unconscious.
• Chopper diagnosed Cricket with severe decompression sickness and warned that continued diving could kill him.
• Two giant ape-like members of the Saruyama Alliance arrived, calmed down when Luffy spoke to them, and explained that Cricket's house was their headquarters.
• After Cricket woke, Luffy asked him how to reach Sky Island, and Cricket laughed at the idea before describing his ancestor Noland as a world-famous liar.
• Cricket revealed that his family had been mocked for generations but had never hated Noland because he had been an honest man.

Cricket explained his determination to find the gold on Jaya and escape the shadow of his ancestor, Noland, while Luffy and his crew learned that Noland’s logbook recorded signs of Sky Island. Cricket decided to help them reach the sky, as Barn received a new system quest.

• Cricket told Sanji and the others how Noland died branded a liar and described the burden of sharing his ancestor’s disgrace.
• Cricket explained that he had returned to Jaya to search for gold for himself, and that Masira and Orangutan had joined him and saved him from loneliness.
• Luffy announced that he wanted to go to Sky Island, and Cricket warned him that people might laugh at him as they had laughed at Noland.
• Nami read Noland’s logbook, which mentioned a Waver powered by something found only on Sky Island and described the Sky Sea.
• Cricket asked Masira and Orangutan to help Luffy’s crew reach Sky Island, and they agreed.
• Barn felt a stirring while fishing, and the system activated the Second Awakening Quest.

Barn joined the Straw Hat Pirates as Cricket explained the Knock Up Cloud and the dangerous Knock Up Stream that could carry them to Sky Island. Cricket said the stream would occur tomorrow at noon, but Usopp doubted him and accused him of lying.

• Barn checked a newly appeared Second Awakening quest, then returned to Cricket’s house to discuss reaching Sky Island.
• Barn proposed that the winged monsters Usopp had seen were shadows or mirages of creatures in the sky, and declared that Sky Island existed.
• Cricket explained the Knock Up Cloud and the Knock Up Stream, warning that the current could destroy the Going Merry and that a failed attempt would be fatal.
• Luffy agreed to pursue Sky Island, while Nami and Usopp worried about the dangers and the ship’s condition; Masira and the other apes offered to reinforce the Going Merry.
• Cricket said the Knock Up Stream would occur tomorrow at noon, and Usopp accused him of lying because he was descended from Liar Noland.

Usopp lashed out at Cricket over the promised route to Sky Island, but Barn helped him face his fear and make peace with Cricket. As the group celebrated and learned more about Noland’s final words, Bellamy’s pirate ship approached, with Bellamy plotting revenge on Barn.

• Usopp accused Cricket of lying and questioned why he was helping them, but Cricket calmly explained that a Knock Up Stream was likely to appear the next day.
• Cricket invited the group to rest and eat, and Barn stayed behind to reassure Usopp that fear did not make him a coward or keep him from being a sea warrior.
• Barn urged Usopp to apologize to Cricket, and Usopp regained his cheerful spirit and followed him inside.
• During the feast, Cricket told Robin and Nami that Noland’s final words mentioned gold in the Skull’s Right Eye, and he explained that his crew searched the seabed for the truth.
• A pirate ship approached the island, and Bellamy ordered his crew to land and planned to make Barn pay for humiliating him.

The Straw Hats learned they needed a South Bird to navigate to the Knock Up Stream, while Barn protected Cricket from Bellamy’s attack. Bellamy escaped after revealing he had alerted the Navy, and Barn sensed a large force approaching as warships gathered along the shore.

• Nami and Cricket read from Noland’s logbook, and Cricket showed the crew golden artifacts and explained that a South Bird could guide them south to the Knock Up Stream.
• Cricket sent Luffy and the others into the forest to catch a South Bird before dawn while the monkeys reinforced their ship.
• Bellamy arrived with Saschi and demanded Cricket’s gold, then attacked Cricket with his spring-powered punch.
• Barn stopped Bellamy’s attack and swiftly beat him, while Cricket and the monkeys continued their work.
• Bellamy revealed that he had informed the Navy about Barn and fled as warships appeared along the shore.
• Cricket recognized Barn as Asura, and Barn urged him to move the ship to the cape after sensing a large force nearby.

Barn and the Straw Hats fought off the Marines’ Buster Call while Cricket urged the crew to pursue their dream of reaching the sky. After rejoining the Going Merry, they entered the whirlpool as the Knock Up Cloud moved into position.

• Robin panicked at the sight of the Marine fleet, slapped Barn, and broke down over memories of Ohara before Barn comforted her.
• Cricket sent Luffy, Vivi, Nami, Robin, and the others toward the cape to sail for the sky, while Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji stayed behind with Barn to face the Marines.
• Barn and the three Straw Hats deflected the bombardment, and the Saruyama Alliance helped escort the others to the cape as Cricket told Nami that dreams made adventure possible.
• Vice Admiral Momonga ordered a full bombardment, but Barn and the Straw Hats leaped across the cannonballs and reached the Marine warships.
• As the Going Merry entered the whirlpool, Barn returned aboard with the unconscious Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji on his back.