Legendary Family! Noland the Liar!

Usopp struggles to patch the sonar damage while the crew talks of replacing the ship, sparking his temper as he reminds them how they earned the Merry. Circling Jaya by Nami's map, Luffy and Usopp gawk at a grand carnival palace that turns out to be a flat cutout hiding a modest house. Robin guesses the resident was outcast for talk of gold, thrilling Nami, who sets Chopper digging. Inside, Nami finds an old North Blue picture book titled Noland the Liar, and Sanji explains it is famous in that sea and based on a real man from long ago.

A flashback recounts how, four centuries earlier, the explorer Mont Blanc Noland told his king of a golden mountain on a distant island. The king sailed with two thousand soldiers, but only a hundred survived the voyage to find nothing but jungle, and Noland was executed for lying, insisting to the end that the gold had sunk beneath the sea. In the present, a blond, Maroon-tattooed man bursts from the water and drags Luffy under, only to collapse from caisson disease that Chopper treats. The two salvage-ape brothers arrive, and the man, revealed as Cricket, apologizes for assuming the crew wanted his gold. He explains that Noland was actually honest, that generations of Mont Blancs vanished trying to clear the name, and that he fled home, became a pirate, and stumbled onto this very island. He hands Nami Noland's four-hundred-year-old logbook describing skyfish, then persuades the bickering brothers to help the crew reach the sky island.

The episode belongs to the Jaya Arc and debuts Mont Blanc Cricket, head of the Saruyama Alliance whose headquarters is the cutout house. Chopper diagnoses Cricket with decompression sickness, dangerous only if he overexerts himself. The closing scene shows Dracule Mihawk examining the new bounties of Luffy and Zoro.