Chapter 266

Arriving at the relics, Robin places herself in what she takes to be Shandora's old civic core. She puzzles over how the structures sit in spots the map does not predict, and chalks the mismatch up to the brutal force that once flung the island into the sky. Recording observations as she explores, she begins to question whether this site is really the legendary city of gold, since the distances refuse to line up. Higher up, an overjoyed Chopper pictures the crew's praise once they see he located the treasure, only for a huge dog to appear at his back. Terrified, he berates himself for arrogance, sure that wandering off alone will get him killed.

The animal's owner remarks that Chopper is the third to reach him and credits the reindeer with beating Gedatsu, blaming that loss on carelessness. Stumbling over a bloodied body, Chopper panics, but the man assures him the well-trained hound bites only with cause, then admits he himself struck down the fallen figure. Introducing himself as Ohm, the priest mourns that weak mortals fight only to lose, claiming death is their path to salvation, and offers to save Chopper, who refuses.

Away from this clash, Kamakiri tells Raki to chase down Wyper and report that Enel is not at the shrine, urging that retreat is still possible since no one can beat him. Reflecting on that strength, Raki becomes the first character to speak the word Logia, and Enel's Devil Fruit is named as the Goro Goro no Mi, the lightning power she ranks among the strongest. Zoro, meanwhile, gets hauled off clinging to a southbird that seized his bag, while Luffy hits a dead end inside the strange cave and fails to smash through with a Gomu Gomu attack. Fleeing and trying to keep range from a swordsman, Chopper is struck through a wall and beaten, with Ohm declaring his Ordeal of Iron leaves zero survivors.

The Animal Theater cover shows Sanji on sunny farmland, unaware that a fox he has already thrashed is again creeping toward his meal, the "32" on his sleeve a pun in which the Japanese numbers for three and two read as sunny. This installment falls within the Skypiea Arc.