Chapter 271

Having heard the account of how Pierre, Gan Fall, Aisa, and Nami wound up trapped here, Luffy calls their being eaten unlucky, oblivious that the same fate has befallen him. Nami yanks his nose in frustration, and even Gan Fall doubts he is truly the captain as the realization finally lands. His bright idea of hunting for the snake's exit at the rear earns a smack, and the women's harshness toward his nonsense rattles the others. His thrashing eventually disturbs the creature itself, which tips Wyper outside that the victims must still be breathing. He moves to blast the belly open, but the snake's wild lurching ruins his aim, and the beast then turns to come straight at him.

Elsewhere, Zoro keeps slipping past Ohm's whip-like blade while racking his mind for a way to free his friends, unsettled that the priest can pin his position even behind walls. After both men cut down intruding fighters, dropping the field to four men and two beasts, Zoro lunges only to watch the blade harden into an iron wall. Repeatedly sliced as the weapon shifts to counter each move, he opens distance and fires his thirty-six pound cannon, yet Ohm blocks even that. Casting off his goggles and tying on his bandana, Zoro stands on the far side of a thick barrier from Ohm, each blind to the other but fully aware. When Ohm claims his heart is already targeted, Zoro draws his third blade, framing each as thirty-six worldly cravings, and looses his Three Sword Style technique, the 108 pound cannon, whose flying slash obliterates the wall, the iron whip, and the priest at once.

Luffy at last accepts that he sits inside Nola's stomach. Zoro defeats Ohm by scaling up his single-blade thirty-six pound cannon, first seen against Braham back in Chapter 259, into the triple-blade 108 pound version. With the priest down, the group inside the serpent can begin working toward escape.

The Animal Theater cover sets Vivi, Karoo, and Matsuge at rest outdoors as her washing flutters dry under the desert breeze. The chapter title keeps to the arc's recurring naming scheme, and the installment falls within the Skypiea Arc.