A Doctorless Island? Adventure in the Country Without a Name!

Enraged that a villager has wounded Vivi, Luffy is about to lash out at the people of Drum Island, but Vivi halts him with an embrace and a hard truth, that a captain who answers everything with his fists is unfit to lead. He calms down, offers an apology, and brings the islanders around, with Dalton agreeing to lead the group while Karoo keeps watch over the sick Nami. Travelling inland, the visitors are made to bow and play dead as a hiking bear lumbers past, and before long they reach the village of Bighorn.

Dalton, captain of the local guard, lends his home and a bed for Nami, whose fever has climbed beyond 42 degrees. He tells them the island's sole doctor, an old woman named Kureha, dwells atop the tallest of the Drum Rockies in a castle that no longer houses a king. Luffy decides he will carry Nami up the slope himself, and Sanji insists on joining him, while Zoro and Karoo stay back to guard the Going Merry.

Vivi defuses Luffy's anger and the crew secures the islanders' aid. Dalton describes how this nameless land was once celebrated for its talented physicians before a band of five pirates, led by a man calling himself Blackbeard, left it in ruins and hastened the collapse of the Drum Kingdom and its king, Wapol. A number of residents felt the kingdom had it coming. Taking Dalton's advised back route to skirt the lapahn packs, Luffy and Sanji are still pestered by one stubborn rabbit, which Sanji finally kicks away, only to stumble onto a much larger herd. Out at sea, the Bliking bears Chess, who spies Drum Island and reports it to his captain.

The entry closes on a snow-blanketed To Be Continued card as the shot drifts away from Vivi, Usopp, and Dalton. For the dubbed broadcast, 4Kids stitched the original Japanese installments seventy-eight and seventy-nine together with a fragment of this one into its forty-eighth release, Saving Nami, then paired what remained of this one with a piece of the next for its forty-ninth, Rabid Rabbits. Blackbeard's silhouette was drawn here as a lean figure that bore no likeness to his true design. First appearances in this entry belong to Negikuma Maria, Kureha, and the locations Bighorn and Drum Castle.