Miraculous Creature! Apis' Secret and The Legendary Island!

Stranded in the windless, currentless Calm Belt and balanced atop a Sea King's head, the Going Merry is encircled by more of the beasts. Zoro urges total silence and stillness, but a frightened Usopp cries out and triggers an assault. Apis pitches overboard and is plucked to safety by Luffy's elastic arm; spotting the creature's snout, she has him fling her back down to wrench out a nostril hair. That colossal sneeze hurls the vessel clear across the whole Calm Belt, dropping it back to safety beyond the region's boundary.

Sailing onward, the crew takes the towering shape ahead for a giant vessel until Apis clarifies that it is Warship Island, so named for looking like a warship. Alarmed residents arm themselves at the sight of the pirate flag, yet Apis vouches for the Straw Hats, and her grandfather Bokuden welcomes them with a celebration of her safe return.

Marines patrolling the surrounding sea catch sight of the girl and report to Nelson Royal, who had assumed her lost and now commands Eric to seize her again. As Bokuden's pork buns cook, Nami probes why the navy pursues Apis, who feigns ignorance and confesses she had lied about knowing. Bokuden then shares the island's lone notable secret, an old legend: the people of Warship Island descend from Lost Island, which sank a thousand years past and once sheltered millennial dragons whose bones, called dragonite, are reputed to bestow eternal life.

Bored by the recounting, Apis slips off with a sack of pork buns. A hungry Luffy trails the scent, and Nami follows them both across a cliff toward a cave.

Within the cave, Apis tends an aged dragon she calls Grandpa Ryu and feeds him the buns. Luffy and Nami find the legendary creature, and to his own astonishment Luffy grasps the dragon's meaning though he hears no spoken words. This moment marks an early display of the voice of all things, a power Luffy can wield to perceive what such beings communicate. Apis explains that having once eaten the Hiso Hiso no Mi, she can read animals' thoughts; Ryu longs to reach his nest on Lost Island but no longer recalls where it lies because of his age. The Marines, having glimpsed her dragon-claw pendant, took her over the dragonite. Stirred by the tale, Luffy swears to help Ryu return home, and a reluctant Nami relents, as Eric nears Warship Island certain the girl knows everything.