Overture

Within the Shandia village, Aisa reports to Wyper that her Mantra has sensed two voices fall quiet out in the forest. The news delights Wyper, who reads it as his cue to launch the assault, and he leaves to rally the warriors. Once he is gone, Aisa quietly tells Raki that Gan Fall was not the one who beat the priest; the credit belongs to other tremendously strong outsiders still moving through the woods. Raki asks for her purse, and when the girl refuses on the grounds that her treasure is kept inside, Raki vows to bring her more.

Out in the forest, Usopp prods Luffy and Sanji to move faster if they mean to catch the drifting boat, and his waist rope finally lets them haul themselves aboard. Nami, having figured out something about Upper Yard, gets ready to guide Zoro and Robin there to be sure. Meanwhile the surviving priests sense, through Mantra, that one of their own has been beaten by the newcomers, and the Shandia storm God's island. At their head is Wyper, set on igniting the flame of Shandia. On the altar, Chopper stirs awake to find Gan Fall and Pierre knocked out beside him, left wondering who pulled the pair from the water before they drowned. The group with Nami then reaches a clearing and spots a familiar piece, the missing half of a house they had seen down on Jaya, which leads them to realize Upper Yard once rested on the ground as a part of that island.

The Shandia mount their attack on Upper Yard, and Nami, Robin, and Zoro work out that it broke off from Jaya. The French-rooted title "Overture" points to the instrumental opening of a grand choral piece, fitting since this chapter sets the Shandia invasion in motion much as an overture opens a composition. On the cover, Wapol peddles his toys to eager children at fifty berries apiece. Those featured include the whole Straw Hat crew, a knocked-out Gan Fall and Pierre, the Shandia, the priests, a South Bird, and Wapol with Hakowan on the cover. It sits within the Skypiea Arc.