Eternal Friends! The Vowed Bell Echoes Across Mighty Seas

Mousse, cloaked, slips up on the crew's lonely doctor one night and lays bare the source of the islanders' fury. A grove of sacred trees has been felled, and the Shandia hold that every soul the Golden Bell calls home lives on inside that timber, keeping watch over the people. To chop it down, then, is to wound their faith itself. Yet a crueler truth lies underneath: those particular trees had already rotted from within, carrying the same Tree Fever the doctor once cured, so the crew had no choice but to clear them or watch the plague spread across the whole island once more. Mousse hurries to her father with this, begging him to make peace before the visitors sail.

Wracked with guilt, Noland abandons the treasure on the sand and points his ship home toward Lvneel. Kalgara sprints for the shore but arrives only as the vessel pulls away, so he screams Noland's name and vows to ring the bell forever, certain its sound will guide his friend back through any storm. Both men weep, both swear to meet again. Years afterward a royal expedition returns to find the land torn off by the Knock Up Stream, its Shandia half flung up to impale Giant Jack as a fresh god lays claim to the new holy ground. Branded a liar by a planted impostor, Noland is put to death in Lvneel still wondering whether Kalgara lived.

The voyage Noland and Aruyutayan made to reach Jaya is dropped from the adaptation. Robin's eyecatcher places the tolling Golden Bell behind her. A small continuity error has the Straw Hats missing while Aisa pulls at Wyper, then present again once Robin notes that Enel's scheme is nearly finished. Back in the present, Wyper at last hurls curses at Enel as the ground splits apart, and Luffy keeps scaling the stalk, vowing the tyrant will never touch the bell.