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Chapter 220: A Walk on the Seafloor
This chapter's foreshadowing ledger — what it plants, what it pays off, and what debuts here. Locked seeds pay off beyond your ⚓ progress; tap one to reveal it anyway.
- Plants
- 1 seed🌱 cover-story-payoff
- Firsts
- Introduction of Masira, captain of the Saruyama Alliance salvage crew, who raises sunken wrecks from the seafloor
- The Straw Hats (Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Sanji) are exploring a sunken wreck in diving helmets while Masira's crew salvages it
- Masira raises the wreck by clamping it with the 'Barco Grabber' and inflating the hull with his own breath
- A giant eel-like sea creature and, at chapter's end, a giant sea turtle ('CHOMP!') menace the salvage operation
Arc: Jaya · Saga: Sky Island · Released:
Summary
The opening chapter of the Jaya arc / Sky Island Saga. A new salvage crew is introduced: their boss is Masira, a huge monkey-faced man in a diving helmet (the headphone earpiece reads “MASIRA”), who leads a hyperactive crew of helmeted divers hauling treasure off the seafloor. Masira’s men work atop a sunken wreck; meanwhile a separate group of helmet-wearing “underwater crew” — actually Luffy, Zoro, Nami, and Sanji — are exploring the same wreck below, marveling at it (“This is no ordinary prow,” “Beware of the mysterious enemy below!!”), with Luffy poking at clocks, fish-shaped clutter, a treasure chest, and a robed corpse-like figure among the debris (pp. 2-7). Masira’s crew rigs the wreck with a “Cradle Set,” engages the Barco Grabber (a giant tong/clamp lowered on cables), links it to the hull, and then Masira personally inflates the sunken ship with his own breath to float it to the surface — “No way, he’s going to raise the wreck… with his breath?!” (pp. 8-13). As the ship rises, a giant eel-like sea creature lunges at the underwater Straw Hats; Masira dives down and drives it off with a “Monkey Punch” (pp. 15-16). The salvaged ship surfaces; Masira boards it and confronts the four interlopers — “Who are you?! How dare you invade my territory!!” The standoff defuses into comedy: Luffy calls him “a monkey,” Masira (vain) preens (“You think I’m hunky?”), and the two bond over Masira being flattered to be called a monkey and over Luffy being “from the East Blue” — “Really? You’re from the East Blue?!” (pp. 17-19). The final panel is a cliffhanger: a giant sea turtle clamps down (“CHOMP!”) on the raised ship from below. Nami and Robin are referenced as being elsewhere/not responding to radio calls (p. 17).
New reveals
- Masira debuts — a hulking, monkey-faced salvage captain (“ROAR!! BLAST! I’ll teach them to mess with my men!!”) who runs a deep-sea wreck-raising operation. His signature method: clamp a sunken hull with the Barco Grabber, then inflate it with his own breath to refloat it (pp. 9-13). Combat technique on-page: “Monkey Punch” (p. 16). (No vault note for him yet — first appearance.)
- The Straw Hats are deep-sea diving in old-style copper diving helmets/suits, exploring a sunken wreck while Masira’s crew salvages the same ship from above (pp. 2-8). Confirmed underwater divers: Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Sanji (pp. 8, 18).
- Nami and Robin are off-panel during the dive — Luffy: “I hope Nami and Robin are okay,” “They haven’t been responding to my calls!” (p. 17). (First chapter where Robin is part of the crew’s casual roster banter after joining.)
- A giant sea-creature menace is established for the seafloor: a large eel-like beast (pp. 15-16) and, at the cliffhanger, a giant sea turtle that chomps the raised ship (p. 19).
Foreshadowing seeds planted
Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)
Mentions / appearances
Luffy · Zoro · Nami (referenced, off-panel) · Sanji · Nico Robin (referenced, off-panel) · Usopp (cover only) · Tony Tony Chopper (cover only) · Masira (no vault note yet — first appearance) · Straw Hat Pirates · Grand Line · East Blue (referenced) · Hatchan (cover serial) · Octopako (cover serial)
Notable panels
- Page 1 (cover): Chapter splash + cover serial — “Hachi’s Walk on the Seafloor, Vol. 34: Octopako is Drawn by the Aroma of the Sauce.” Hatchan (octopus fish-man) and Octopako on a beach; a smell-trail heart motif. (Cover-story tracker: Hachi B-plot, vol. 34.)
- Pages 2-3: Masira introduced — giant monkey-faced diver, “MASIRA” earpiece, rousing his hyperactive helmeted crew (“Don’t be nervous just because we have observers, men!” / “AYE AYE!!”). Underwater “BLUP” panels show the helmeted Straw Hats.
- Pages 4-7: The underwater wreck interior — grandfather clock, fish-shaped clutter, a robed corpse-like figure, and a treasure chest; Luffy and crew explore in diving helmets.
- Pages 8-10: “CRADLE SET!!” / Barco Grabber engaged; “No way. He’s going to raise the wreck… with his breath?!” — Nami: “That’s ridiculous!!”
- Pages 11-13: Masira inflates the hull with his breath; the ship begins to rise (“It’s rising!!” / “Heave! Pull it up!!”).
- Pages 15-16: A giant eel-like sea creature lunges at the underwater crew; Masira dives in — “Monkey Punch!!”
- Page 17: Surfaced ship; Masira boards and confronts the four — “Who are you?! How dare you invade my territory!!” Nami/Robin noted as not answering calls.
- Pages 18-19: Comedy beat — Luffy: “A monkey.” / Masira: “You think I’m hunky?” The two bond; Masira delighted to be from-East-Blue pirates’ “monkey.” Final panel: a giant sea turtle “CHOMP!“s the raised ship.
Open questions raised
- Who is Masira, and is his salvage crew allied with anyone (the broader Saruyama Alliance / the approach to Sky Island)?
- What is the abnormally deep, monster-haunted seafloor here, and why do so many wrecks accumulate? (Connects forward to the Jaya / Knock-Up Stream geography.)
- Where are Nami and Robin while the others dive? (Aboard the Going Merry, presumably — they don’t answer the radio.)
- Will the giant sea turtle’s “CHOMP” threaten the raised ship / the crew next chapter?