Let's Eat

Cricket urges the crew to trust everything he says about the sky island. He reframes the sudden midday darkness they witnessed not as monsters but as the shadow of an immense, unchanging cloud he calls a millennium cumulonimbus, the only place a sky island can rest. The Straw Hats celebrate the proof that their goal exists, though Nami points out they still have no way up.

Cricket details the Knock Up Stream as the sole known path skyward, a deadly gamble requiring extreme luck, with Masira and Shoujou reinforcing the ship. Nami warns the stream erupts only five times a month and must align directly beneath Skypiea, yet Cricket confirms the next one strikes the following day at noon, just before their Log Pose resets. Overwhelmed by how smoothly everything fits, Usopp lashes out accusing Cricket of lying because of his Noland blood, then breaks down and embraces him in apology. The group feasts together while Bellamy's ship nears the house.

In this Jaya arc chapter, Robin reads Noland's logbook, noting his final line about gold lying in the skull's right eye. The Animal Theater cover shows Luffy fishing for a giant bird from a belltower with a bread roll.