Chapter 265

Near the Going Merry, Nami marvels at how much faster her rebuilt sky-skiff runs after Pagaya's repairs. He notes that the Jet Dial powering it belongs to a variety extinct for centuries, so finding one astonished him. With mobility restored, the group agrees to gather at the beach. Nami voices her trust in a squad of four, and when she counts off Zoro, Luffy, Robin, and Chopper, Aisa cuts in to say no group of that size exists anywhere on the island at present. From this Nami deduces that the girl also possesses the Mantra gift, which Aisa confirms she has carried since birth, adding that no one else grasps how terrifying it is to sense so many presences wink out in rapid succession.

When Nami dubs her a crybaby, the little girl bristles, and Conis steps in to explain that Aisa's own craft had been broken and that skyfish were assailing her when they found her. Pressed on what she hoped to achieve by reaching them, Aisa can only say she worried for her friends, which stirs a flicker of concern in Nami. Off in the forest, Luffy frets over everyone's safety while picking through peculiar ruins, sore at having abandoned the pack holding his treasured lunch and utterly lost as he hunts for an exit from what he takes to be some strange cave. In another quarter of the trees, Zoro snaps at a huge southbird to stop trailing him, insisting his food is long gone and would not be shared regardless, and finally challenges it to a fight.

In yet another stretch of Upper Yard, one Shandia fighter is shaken to feel Enel close by. He steels himself to strike, but in a single blink the self-styled god materializes at his back and drops him before he can respond, cutting the survivor count to twenty-four. Robin, meanwhile, stays locked with Commander Yama, working to lure him away from the ancient ruins he keeps leveling. He runs her down in a clearing and seems mildly startled that she has stopped fleeing. She tells him it is pointless now and warns that no apology will win pardon for the ruin he has caused. Snaring his airborne charge with Treinta Fleurs grown from a nearby vine, she drives his face into a tree, and when he unfastens his Axe Dial belt to roll at her, she covers his eyes and turns the belt back against his own body, sending him crashing into the trunk behind her.

Hoisting the battered commander's head, Robin lectures him that history is ceaselessly made yet can never be relived, and once more denies his plea for mercy. When he grabs at her, sprouted limbs snap his fingers, and with Cien Fleurs she blankets the forest floor with arms that roll him toward a cliff before pitching him over the edge, where a final crop of limbs fractures his spine through Clutch in midair. The Animal Theater cover shows a wallaby offering Zoro a broad leaf for shelter from the rain, seemingly in return for the haramaki Zoro gave it. This installment first confirms that Aisa's Mantra has been with her from birth, and its title page was later reused for Zoro's ending in One Piece: Grand Battle! 3. It sits within the Skypiea Arc.