Chapter 298: Love Song

Every soul in Skypiea gazes upward in disbelief, the Raigo meant to erase the whole nation now dispersed by a single boy, while Usopp roars praise at his captain. Down in the Shandora ruins, Wyper shouts at the captain to set the Light of Shandora burning again, and Gan Fall begs that the island's song be heard once more. On the Maxim, Enel reels that his deadliest attack failed and that Luffy has reached him yet again. Vowing not to fall, he assumes his final shape, the 200 Million Volt Amaru, and scorns the boy's belief in the legend tying the bell's toll to the end of a war.

Electricity proves useless, and Luffy lands a kick to the god's face before halting as a trident bites into his back, its heat worsening each time his own twisted arm forces it deeper. Recalling Conis weeping and Aisa's grief, he unwinds free of the weapon and lets himself drop, then snags a cloud's edge to arrest the plunge and rockets upward again. Enel readies a second trident for the heart, but Luffy lets his coiled arm release and, at blinding velocity, unleashes the Gomu Gomu no Ogon Rifle, smashing the god's teeth and launching him backward. Across Skypiea a flood of memories rises, Kalgara's pledge to Noland, the dawn of the Shandian campaign, Nola's old sorrow, just as Luffy slams the god straight into the Golden Bell, wondering whether Cricket can hear that the City of Gold has waited in the sky four centuries.

Enel is at last beaten, having unveiled his 200 Million Volt Amaru form, while Luffy debuts the gold-augmented Ogon Rifle drawn from the ball molded on his arm. The toll of the bell is confirmed to have once marked the close of the 400-year struggle between Shandians and Skypieans over Upper Yard, something Enel teased back in Chapter 295. The title's kanji literally render as Song of the Island, the phrase for the bell's sound, and this rare scene shows Luffy's private thoughts. Brought to the screen in Episode 192.