Chapter 297

Enel cackles while bolts of lightning batter the roots of the colossal beanstalk, slowing Nami and Luffy on their waver and tearing Upper Yard apart at the same time. Nami grasps his plan: by ripping out the plant's footing he means to bring it down entirely and rob them of any path to him. Enel taunts that Luffy's immunity to electricity counts for nothing if he can never close the distance, and Luffy fires back that the so-called god will not slip away. Below, the survivors of the ordeal, Usopp, Robin, Gan Fall, and Aisa, watch the cloud floor melt away and the sky country break apart, anguished that Zoro and Wyper are still trapped in the collapsing Shandora ruins.

A battered Wyper hauls himself upright to declare that no amount of ruin can erase Shandora's history or the pride of the Shandia, insisting the city will never bow to Enel's cruelty. Gan Fall, struck by those words, realizes the sky dwellers never truly held any claim to the land across four centuries. As the beanstalk crashes further down, Luffy leaps from the waver straight at the thundercloud, ignoring Nami's terror over the pressure and current. Performing Gomu Gomu no Hanabi: Ougon Botan, he whirls his body and smashes the massive golden ball against the cloud. The collisions flood the air with light, and Enel grasps that the boy is channeling the gold as a conductor, siphoning the charge clean out of the storm.

The single major beat is Luffy dismantling Enel's Raigo. Across Skypiea and the Shandia lands, both peoples pray for an end to the fighting, and Conis begs whatever god exists for a rescue. The cover page continues Ace's Great Blackbeard Search at volume 22, where a flaming Ace bolts as G-2's marines resume their assault. The chapter was adapted across Episode 191 and Episode 192.