Introducing Sanji

As the ship draws up on the Baratie, a dining hall built in the shape of a fish, the Marine known as Iron Fist Fullbody is entertaining a young woman. Johnny and Yosaku duck out of sight, Johnny moping over having lost to a captain whose crew has barely existed a few days. Fullbody, recognizing the bounty hunters, mocks them and beats them off the page when they swing back, then warns that, being off the clock, he will let them go just this once. As Johnny hits the ground, wanted posters spill from his pocket; Nami takes one and grows quiet. Breaking his own word, Fullbody decides to sink the ship, so Luffy swells up with his Gomu Gomu no Mi and bats the cannonball away, only to miss and strike the Baratie instead.

Within the restaurant, Fullbody tries to show off for his date by naming the wine, but the waiter, revealed to be none other than the sous chef Sanji, points out that he was poured a different vintage from the one he ordered, leaving him red-faced. Outside, the head chef Zeff pulls Luffy up and sets the terms: a full year of work to settle the damage. Bent on payback, Fullbody slips a fly into his soup, yet Sanji simply flirts with the woman and shrugs the insect off. The humiliated Marine slams the table down and goes to strike the cook; despite the other chefs begging him not to react, Sanji leaves Fullbody bloodied, beating his code as a cook into him and warning that mocking a chef out on the open ocean is a suicidal move.

The Baratie is presented in full, with head chef Zeff revealed and the assistant head chef Sanji introduced while waiting tables, alongside the Marine Fullbody. Luffy's accidental damage saddles him with a year of repairs. Nami quietly pockets the wanted poster of a particular fugitive, later shown to be Arlong. The cover carries on the chronicle of Buggy's crew, as Buggy crash-lands on an island whose odd beasts come paired with a still odder man, Gaimon.