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A special chapter bundled with the tenth film, Chapter 0 reaches back roughly two decades before Luffy ever set sail. It traces the rivalry of Shiki the Golden Lion with Gol D. Roger and the birth pangs of the pirate era.

The debut installment introduces a young, rubber-bodied Monkey D. Luffy and his idol, the pirate Shanks. It follows the boyhood ordeal that forges his dream and, a decade on, the morning he finally rows out to seek the crown of Pirate King.

The second One Piece chapter drops Luffy onto an island ruled by the pirate Alvida, where he befriends her timid servant Koby, sparks the boy's courage, and flattens Alvida with a single rubber punch before they sail off together.

Chapter 3, called Introducing Pirate Hunter Zoro, takes Luffy and Koby to a Marine base holding the dreaded swordsman Zoro in chains. After learning the reason behind the jailing, Luffy sets his mind on adding the prisoner to his crew.

Chapter 4 introduces the tyrant lording over the Marine base. Luffy plots to seize Zoro's swords as recruitment leverage and wrecks Morgan's prized statue by accident, while Koby's bid to free Zoro ends with the boy being shot from above.

Execution looms for Zoro on Morgan's orders while Luffy scrambles to recover the swordsman's blades. A childhood flashback to Kuina explains the dream Zoro carries, and a single reckless rescue convinces him to throw in with the rubber-bodied captain.

Sixth chapter of the One Piece manga, carrying the title "The First." Luffy cuts Zoro loose, the two demolish the Shells Town garrison, and the showdown with Captain Morgan reaches its end while Helmeppo tries to use Koby as a bargaining chip.

Chapter 7, "Friends", wraps the Romance Dawn Arc. Grateful Marines free Luffy and Zoro, Luffy stages a fight with Koby so the boy can enlist, and the base sees the pair off with a salute as Koby finally joins the Marines.

Carrying the title Introducing Nami, this installment leaves Luffy and Zoro adrift with no navigator, has a giant bird haul Luffy off to an island, and closes on his first encounter with Nami, a thief who robs only pirates.

Chapter 9 of One Piece, titled "Devilish Woman," formally introduces Nami and the clown captain Buggy, as the thieving navigator sizes Luffy up, learns of his hat, and then hands him over to Buggy in a scheme of her own.

Nami's scheme to rob the Buggy Pirates unravels when Buggy orders her to execute the caged Luffy. Her refusal, a desperate save, and Zoro's timely arrival turn the clown's celebration into a rout.

After Zoro seemingly cuts Buggy down, the clown unveils his Bara Bara no Mi, the swordsman turns the crew's own cannon back on them, and the trio slips away across the rooftops as a furious Buggy declares all-out war.

Chapter 12, Dog, has a worn-out Zoro and the caged Luffy cross paths with a loyal shop-guarding dog, hear its sad history, and run into Buggy's beast-tamer Mohji, whose strike accidentally frees Luffy in Orange Town.

The 13th chapter of One Piece, titled "Treasure", has Luffy thrash Mohji over the loss of a loyal dog's pet shop, showing Nami a side of piracy she did not expect.

One Piece chapter 14, Reckless!!, turns Nami toward trusting Luffy, pushes the mayor of Orange Town to finally take a stand against Buggy, and shows Zoro emerging unhurt from a house leveled by a Buggy Ball.

One Piece chapter 15, Gong, sees the brave Mayor Boodle confront Buggy and nearly die for it before Luffy steps in. The rubber pirate knocks the old man clear of danger and prepares to face the Buggy Pirates while Nami goes hunting for loot.

Chapter 16, titled Versus!! The Buggy Pirates, pits a wounded Zoro against the acrobat Cabaji, who exploits an earlier injury, while Mohji warns Buggy of Luffy's rubber Devil Fruit powers.

Titled "Character," this Orange Town chapter finishes Zoro's clash with Cabaji, sees Nami break off to raid Buggy's hoard, and ends on Luffy proclaiming his Pirate King dream as Buggy lets Shanks slip into the conversation.

The 18th One Piece chapter, The Pirate Buggy the Clown, stages the duel between Luffy and Buggy, where their opposing powers cancel out until a slashed straw hat reveals Buggy's old bond with Shanks and ignites Luffy's rage.

Titled "Devil Fruit", the 19th chapter of One Piece pauses the brawl in Orange Town to flash back to Buggy's days sailing beside Shanks, explaining through bitter memory how the clown ever came to swallow his powers.

In the twentieth chapter Luffy turns Buggy's body-splitting power against him, exposing the clown captain's grounded feet, while Nami snatches the treasure and ties down his floating pieces so Luffy can blast him into the sky.

The 21st chapter of One Piece, titled "Town," closes out the Orange Town Arc as Luffy, Zoro, and Nami flee an angry mob, leave part of Buggy's loot behind to rebuild the village, and earn the grateful gratitude of a recovered mayor.

Chapter 22 of One Piece, known by the name "You're the Rare Breed," launches the Syrup Village Arc as the captain and Nami encounter Gaimon, a man wedged inside a chest who has spent twenty years guarding treasure on an island of odd hybrid beasts.

Chapter 23 of One Piece sends Luffy's crew hunting for a bigger ship and lands them on Usopp's island, where the boastful liar and his young followers cross paths with the pirates, hinting at the wealthy bedridden girl in the local mansion.

Usopp's three young followers track him to the Straw Hats and learn he spends each day cheering a bedridden girl with tall tales. When her butler sneers at Usopp's pirate blood, Usopp's pride snaps and he answers with his fist.

Titled "800 Lies," this chapter has Kaya calm Usopp's outburst against Klahadore before the crew departs. The hypnotist Jango appears, and Luffy and Usopp later overhear the butler plotting Kaya's murder on the beach.

Chapter 26, "Captain Kuro's Plan", exposes the butler Klahadore as the supposedly dead pirate Kuro and lays out his scheme to inherit Kaya's fortune, while Usopp's warning to the village falls on deaf ears.

Titled "Plan," the chapter sees the villagers refuse to believe Usopp's warning about Kuro, pushing the young liar to defend Syrup Village alone until Luffy, Zoro, and Nami pledge to fight beside him.

Titled Crescent Moon, this Syrup Village installment sets the night-before stage for the Black Cat raid. The defenders rig their trap, the butler abandons his mask under the thin moon, and at dawn the raiders strike from the harbor nobody guarded.

Titled Hill Road, this chapter strands Usopp and Nami against the Black Cat Pirates on the northern slope while Luffy and Zoro flounder on the wrong route, both unable to tell which way leads to the fight.

Titled "Great!!!," this chapter sees Jango hypnotize the Black Cat Pirates into ferocity, accidentally catching Luffy in the spell. The rampaging captain wrecks their ship before being lulled to sleep, only for two fresh fighters to surface.

Titled "Truth," this installment has Kaya finally grasp the threat Usopp tried to warn her about. As she races to stop Kuro, two fresh members of the Black Cat Pirates, the Nyaban Brothers, surface at the cliff to take on Zoro.

Great Misfortune drops Zoro into a two-against-one fight with the Nyaban Brothers. Reduced to a single blade, he soaks up heavy hits to keep his friends safe, Nami is wounded by Jango, and Kuro finally turns up atop the slope.

In this One Piece chapter, Captain Kuro returns to the battlefield. Furious that his old crew lost to children, he turns his silent Cat Claws on his own men, while Zoro reclaims his blades and Nami races to rouse the unconscious Luffy.

The thirty-fourth chapter of One Piece, "Butler Klahadore", halts the Syrup Village brawl when Kaya appears to plead with Kuro, only to learn the man she trusted views her murder as the key to his quiet retirement.

Titled Neo Hill Road, this chapter has Kuro claim Luffy for himself and order Jango after Kaya, while Buchi traps Zoro on the slope and Usopp hands his young followers the job of carrying the heiress out of danger.

Chapter 36 of One Piece, After Them!!, follows the chase through Syrup Village's forest as Zoro finishes Buchi, Luffy squares off with Kuro, and Jango closes in on the fleeing Kaya and the Usopp Pirates.

Chapter 37, "The Pirate Kuro of a Hundred Plans", opens the duel between Luffy and Kuro, flashing back to how the captain faked his own death to escape the Marines before Luffy shatters his claws and proclaims his own dream.

The 38th chapter of One Piece drives the Syrup Village clash toward its peak. Kuro reveals a cold plan to silence every witness to his survival, his own men among them, and finally lets loose a technique that turns him into a blind killer.

"For Whom the Bell Tolls" closes the Syrup Village fight, with Luffy pinning the murderous Kuro into submission with a binding grip and a headbutt, while Usopp and Zoro reach the forest in time for a slingshot shot that rescues Kaya from Jango's blade.

Chapter 40 closes out the Syrup Village battle. Luffy flings a defeated Kuro at the routed Black Cat Pirates, the villagers agree to bury the morning's events in silence, and Usopp resolves to set sail, disbanding his young crew through a tearful parting.

The Syrup Village Arc reaches its close as a caravel changes hands, a reluctant sniper is pulled into the crew, and a quiet conversation about Usopp's mother explains why a boy kept shouting about pirates long after there was any reason to.

Titled "Yosaku and Johnny," this early chapter sees Usopp prove his worth aboard the Going Merry, reunites Zoro with two old bounty hunting partners, and sets the crew on course for a floating restaurant in search of a cook.

The crew reaches the floating restaurant Baratie, where a clash with a Marine lieutenant leads Luffy to wreck part of the place and where the establishment's sharp sous chef makes his memorable first impression by humiliating the same Marine.

Tempers boil over inside the Baratie as Luffy bargains down his debt, Sanji nearly kills a rude Marine, and a starving runaway prisoner coaxes out the cook's buried compassion, convincing Luffy he has found the right chef.

Sanji turns down a place on Luffy's crew out of his bond with the floating restaurant, and Gin sails home to the Krieg Pirates planning to point his enormous fleet straight at the Baratie. A storm is gathering over the sea.

One Piece's 46th chapter, "An Uninvited Guest", shows Sanji fawning over the women at the Baratie before the dreaded Don Krieg staggers in starving and reveals his true intentions.

Chapter 47, titled Pirate Fleet Admiral Don Krieg, has the armored warlord seize the Baratie and demand the cooks feed his dying men, exposing both his ruthlessness and his fear of the legendary Red Leg Zeff.

Chapter 48, titled Leave That Path Alone, recounts the legend of Red Leg Zeff as Don Krieg demands his Grand Line logbook, prompting Luffy to declare he will be Pirate King and Gin to name Hawk-Eye as the fleet's destroyer.

"Storm" confirms that the hawk-eyed warrior who wrecked Krieg's fleet is the very swordsman Zoro has hunted. Krieg moves to seize the Baratie, and by the end both the Going Merry and Nami have vanished as a lone boat drifts toward the restaurant.