Sleep

When Luffy calls Nami a crewmate, she snaps that she only ever stayed for the money and that he is a nuisance to her. Johnny brands her a cold-blooded witch, swearing he watched her kill Usopp, but Nami stays unbothered and warns the crew that none of them, monsters or not, can stand against the true monster, Arlong. She tells Zoro that Usopp lies at the bottom of the ocean, and when he moves to strike her, Sanji holds him back, sparking the two swordsmen and cooks into their first real brawl. Then, to make his indifference plain, Luffy lies down and falls asleep on the spot, which sends Nami into a fury.

Elsewhere, Usopp wanders Cocoyasi Village very much alive, puzzling over why Nami stabbed her own hand rather than him. He realizes she was shielding him from Arlong, decides she is no witch, and rushes off to warn Zoro, whom he fears has returned to Arlong Park. He instead blunders straight into the fight between Zoro and Sanji and takes a blow to the face. Nojiko, hearing a door slam, finds Nami collapsed at her desk amid overturned furniture and broken glass.

Dreading the wrath of the fish-men, Johnny and Yosaku split off from the group, vowing to reunite one day. Usopp assures Luffy that his apparent killing was a ruse Nami arranged to keep him safe, and he senses she allied with Arlong's crew for a reason no one yet grasps. Zoro and Sanji come to blows for the first time as crewmates. Nojiko then appears, tells the Straw Hats that nothing can break Arlong's grip on the islands, and agrees to recount Nami's history provided they leave once she is done.

The cover is an Animal Theater piece in which Luffy climbs a tree to imitate a pair of owls while Zoro and Sanji watch and Usopp gazes off into the distance. At the village, the Marines' sixteenth branch arrives under Captain Nezumi, who asks Genzo to lead the way toward the home where Nami lives. A trivia note marks this as the debut of the line "love is like a hurricane," spoken by Sanji. The chapter is part of the Arlong Park Arc.