Uprising of the Navigator! For the Unyielding Dream!

While the crew lounges and fishes off the deck, Luffy reels in a giant sea snail whose shell pops open to reveal a stranded traveling merchant, Rice Rice of the Den-Den Company, blown off course mid-delivery. Grateful to be rescued, he hands out catalogs and starts hawking gadgets, only to have Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper rummage through his Escar and toy with the wares. Nami's attention locks onto one item in particular: a sheet stock tough enough to shrug off weather and time.

Rice Rice tries to gouge Nami on the price of his Millennium Paper, climbing into the tens of millions of beli, before the haggling collapses into a standoff that Sanji ends by offering to cover it. When the salesman realizes the captain he just met is the wanted Monkey D. Luffy, he panics at the sight of the Jolly Roger and flees in his snail, leaving the paper and his samples behind. Nami seizes the chance, retreating to her room to draft maps of Little Garden, Drum Island, and Alabasta, recalling her childhood on a Cocoyasi cliff with Bell-mère and Nojiko and the vow she made to map every place she would ever sail.

The story keeps Nami at its center, with her crewmates repeatedly jolting the ship and ruining her ink strokes through fights, soap bubbles, and Luffy crashing into her supplies. A frightened Chopper, sworn to silence, finally spots an approaching tornado and breaks down, prompting Nami to rally everyone to steer through the storm. Robin spends the episode reading the second Rainbow Mist volume, and this marks the final use of Shining Ray as the closing theme.