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Chapter 71: Lords of All Creation

Summary

Page 1 — chapter splash + Buggy cover-story Part 24 (“BODY PARTS RUN AMUCK!!”). The chapter opens inside Nojiko’s house the morning after Ch. 70’s Nami-is-my-step-sister reveal. Page 2 establishing-shot: DOOM!! SFX, Nojiko’s tangerine-grove house, “NAMI’S HOUSE?!” / “THIS IS…” Usopp’s reaction. Nojiko, calmly seated at the kitchen table with Usopp, delivers the chapter’s first oblique Bell-mère reveal: “Long ago, the three of us lived here happily in Coco Village. But the one who raised us is dead now. Yes, Nami and I were orphans. We grew up together in this house.” Three reveals in one panel: Bell-mère raised them, Bell-mère is dead, both girls were orphans.

Page 2 bottom — Usopp’s outraged reaction: “A real witch, huh?” / “That’s about right.” (Nojiko, deadpan). “She betrayed her own people?!” / “In this village? Then why would Nami join Arlong’s crew?! They tyrannize these parts!” — Usopp escalates from victim-witness shock (Ch. 70 close) to villain-collaborator outrage (Ch. 71 open). Page 3 — Usopp upgrades to theft-suspicion: “What you just told me changes everything! She was fooling us the whole time! She was only after our treasure!!!” / “But all the while she was planning to ditch us!!!” / “And she was so friendly on the ship, too!!” / “She fought to protect my village…” / ”…It makes my blood boil!! When I think of it…” — WONK!! — Usopp punches his own fist. “Then you won’t attack Arlong and his pirates?” (Nojiko, watching him calmly). “Someone that low, that mercenary, isn’t worth finding!! Boy, that makes me mad!!” / “Really? She was friendly?” / “The witch?” (Nojiko, hand-on-cheek, gentle smile — the adult-who-knows-more-than-she-says register from Ch. 70 continues).

Page 4 — Nojiko, calm: “Well, that’s probably a good idea. If you run afoul of the fish-men… you’ll probably end up dead.” Usopp pivots to retrieval: “All I care about now is getting our ship back. I’ll find the Merry Go and go Merrily away from here.” Page 4 middle — WUM-P!! SFX as Nojiko throws open the window: “Hey!! Is it that one? The Merry Go!!” / “In a place like that?!” (Usopp, gawking). Page 4 bottom — Nojiko sketches the arc-geography map for Usopp: three labeled signposts (ARLONG PARK | COCO VILLAGE — YOU ARE HERE | GOSA VILLAGE) with a compass rose, miniature buildings, palm trees, the MERRY GO marked as a sprite between Coco and Gosa. “That’s where the fish-men came after us. Then the center of Coco Village must be just west of here.” / “I’m beginning to understand the geography around here.” First on-page arc-geography map.

Page 5 — Usopp, beanie pushed back, sweat-drenched: “He was already half dead. I only hope he didn’t provoke them into making him all dead…” / “One of our mates… got captured by fish-men! I’d forgotten!!” (the chapter’s pivot from retrieval-mode to rescue-mode — Usopp realizes Zoro is alone on the boat). Page 5 mid — WOOOOOO — Arlong Park interior establishing-shot for the first time: the central pagoda, the shark-toothed gate, the ARLONG PARK signage on the central pagoda’s facade, palm trees flanking, Roman-letter signage confirming the arc-location across the establishing-shots. Page 5 bottom — interior of the pagoda: Zoro on the floor (bound, panting, sweat-drenched), surrounded by Arlong-Pirates officers. “You darn, dirty half-fish!!!” (Zoro). “I told you, I’m looking for a woman!!!” — first on-page Zoro-inside-Arlong-Park sequence.

Page 6 — fishman officer, sharp-toothed-grin close-up: “Watch it, human! I’ll let it slide once, but don’t ever call me a half-fish again!!” — first slur-and-correction beat for the fishman race. The same officer delivers the chapter’s central doctrinal monologue: “We fish-men are evolved humans who have developed the ability to breathe seawater. Our fish-like powers make us far superior to you!!” / “We fish-men are the lords of all creation!!! We can do a lot of things that no human can!!” — the chapter title is a fishman-self-quote. The Arlong-Pirates fishman-self-theory is evolved-humans-with-seawater-breathing; the supremacist axiom is lords-of-all-creation. Page 6 bottom — wide-shot of Arlong Park interior pool/courtyard: Arlong cross-legged on the throne foreground, Nami standing nearby (her first on-page panel in the chapter, in a cow-spot-print top), Zoro on the floor between them. “A human fighting the fish-men… is fighting the power of nature itself!!!” — the doctrine extends to a fighting-nature claim.

Page 7 — close-up of Nami’s face, calm: ”…Arlong. I’m sick of that stupid theory of yours…” Page 7 top right — !!? Zoro reacts. Nami, calm: “My brain’s just different from yours. It works.” / “What do you expect?!” (Arlong, off-panel). Page 7 middle — Arlong, in foreground reclined on a striped-recliner, recliner-shaped foreshortened chair, gesturing at Nami: “You’re different!! Don’t be offended, Nami!” / “You’re my talented and esteemed Surveyor, the pride of my crew. Your maps are the best!!” — first on-page named role for Nami: SURVEYOR. Page 7 bottom — Zoro, eyes wide: “Surveyor?! Nami?!!” / “Are you in cahoots with these freaks?!” The Ch. 69 Officer Nami reveal is now role-specified.

Page 8 — wide-shot of the Arlong Park pool/courtyard from above: Nami and Zoro at center, Arlong Park officers seated around the pool’s edge, Arlong’s recliner in foreground right. “You know this human?” (Arlong, off-panel). “Of course not. He just followed the loot. I helped myself to his treasure.” (Nami). ”…!?” (Zoro, beat). Page 8 middle — Nami and Zoro side-shot: “I knew you’d try to follow me, but… I didn’t think you’d make it all the way here.” / ”…” (Zoro). Page 8 bottom — Nami, eyes closed, smug, gesturing at her own chest: “That’s right. I’m an officer in Arlong’s pirate crew. Surprised?” / “I was a pirate all along.” / “So this is the real you?” (Zoro, narrow-eyed close-up).

Page 9 — Arlong, head-tilted-back, gleeful, sharp-toothed laugh: “BWA HA HA HA! She made a fool of you!” / “That one even forgave the death of a parent for money. She’s our cold-blooded witch woman!!” — the chapter’s most load-bearing dialogue: Arlong canonizes on-page that Nami’s parent was killed and Nami took payment to forgive it. The Bell-mère death is now villain-narrated as a fact about Nami’s past. Page 9 middle — Hatchan (assumed; ape-face fishman): “And we back her up.” / Arlong: “Trickery and treasure stealing are her specialties!” — Arlong endorses Nami’s Ch. 8-50 MO as the operational identity of his crew. Page 9 bottom — Zoro and Nami side-by-side, Zoro shrugging dismissively: “I see…” / “Well, I never trusted her anyway. It wouldn’t surprise me if she’s a murderer, too.”

Page 10 — Nami, head down close-up, gentle smile: “Then let’s get down to brass tacks. Now that you know you were tricked… forget me and the treasure and scram! You’re an eyesore!!” / ”…I knew she was no good. The first time I saw her…” (Zoro, grinning). Page 10 middle — wide-shot from above the courtyard: Nami trips Zoro into the pool (foot extended, TUMP…!). Page 10 bottom — SPLOOSH…!! — Zoro hits the water; Nami foregrounded, hand-to-chin (?!), Arlong-Pirates officers in background reacting (WHA— / WHAT?!).

Page 11 — wide-shot of the pool: Zoro sinks (blub blub…); Nami’s face, sweat-drop (…!?); fishmen on the pool’s edge reacting: “Suicide?” / “No way. A human can’t swim with his arms and legs tied.” / “He’s escaping!!” / “Banana peel? Somebody push him?” / “What happened?! Why’d he suddenly jump in?!” — the chapter’s central fishman-can’t-read-human-distress gag. Page 11 middle — Nami runs (KLAK KLAK, sandals slapping): “That idiot…” / Arlong (close-up, sharp-toothed-grin): “Let him drown!!” Page 11 bottom — wide-shot of the pool from outside the park gate (WOOOOOOOO horn SFX over the gate): “NAMI?” / SPLASH…! — Nami dives in.

Page 12 — gateside fishmen (“There they are.” / “What is this, Nami!!?”); Nami and Zoro hauled out of the pool, both coughing (KOFF KOFF); Arlong-Pirates officers (“What were you thinking?” / “What was he thinking?”); Arlong, looming over them: “What kind of cold-blooded witch woman… can’t stand to see a man drown?!” — wait, the line is from Usopp. (Re-read page 12, panel 3 — the speech bubble is from Usopp, who has snuck in to the pool’s edge and hauled Zoro out himself.) Page 12 bottom — Usopp, soaked, on the ground hugging Zoro: “…can’t stand to see a man drown?!” — Usopp directly rebuts Arlong’s cold-blooded witch woman label for Nami by performing the warm-hearted-rescue on Zoro himself.

Page 13 — Nami, kneeling, drenched, glaring: “Well, help me, stupid. I almost died just now!” / “GRRR!” (Zoro). “You’re dead!!” / “If you mess with me again…” / WHAK!! — Nami clobbers Zoro: “OW!!” / “YOU JERK!!!” Page 13 mid — WHAM WHAM — Nami and Zoro grapple. “OOF!!” / ”—!!” Page 13 bottom — Usopp, exhausted, in the background: “I ran outta clean laundry.” / “All those bandages…” / “So I…” — Usopp’s comedic deflection covers his rescue-act.

Page 14 — Arlong Park interior: Arlong (foreground, looming): “Throw him in jail. I’ll deal with him.” / “Well, Nami, what should we do with him?” The chapter pivots: Nami orders Zoro thrown in jail (‘I’ll deal with him’ — the she-still-cares tell continues; she’s putting Zoro in a position where she can manage his treatment). Page 14 middle — Arlong on his recliner, sword-toothed officer in background: “What is it, comrade?” / “ARLONG! ARLONG!!” / “The one with the long nose got away!!” Page 14 bottom — Arlong, close-up sharp-toothed smile: “Coco Village? I just happen to have business there…” / “I think he fled to Coco Village, but…” / ”…!” (Nami, alarmed close-up). / “Usopp… they found him, too…” (Zoro, sweat-drenched, narrow-eyed).

Page 15 — COCO VILLAGE signpost, palm-lined dirt street, wooden buildings with palm-leaf-thatched bus-stop-style structure, distant villagers in mid-ground. Usopp center-frame in his striped tank-top, carrying a heavy bundle (presumably his rescue-loot from Arlong Park). “Hey! Arlong is on his way here!!” (Usopp, shouting). “What?!” (a villager). Page 15 middle — villagers scrambling: “klak klak klak…” / “Everyone get inside.” / “They probably saw my weapon.” / “He’s here!” / “Mr. Gen—” / “We already paid the tribute!” / “What does he want?” — first on-page Coco Village center scene; villagers in panic-organize mode.

Page 16 — WOOOOoooo horn SFX; silhouetted figures (presumably Arlong-Pirates) on the road into the village; foregrounded villagers in shadow. “The guy with the sword?” / “Was it you? Three days ago?” — close-up of Genzo (foregrounded, pinwheel hat on, klak klak SFX over the hat, stitched scar across his face from forehead to chin, sideburns, fingerless gloves, metal-studded vest, sitting on a barrel): “That’s right.” Title-card debut: “GENZO — COCO VILLAGER.” Genzo’s doctrine, beneath Usopp’s offstage voice (“Weapons give birth to wicked thoughts and violence!! They’re the number one threat to the peace.” / “Can’t a guy have a collection? I’ve always liked looking at weapons.”) — the village-pacifism-under-Arlong-tax register is installed via Genzo’s weapons-collection doctrine.

Page 17 — Usopp, panic-mode: “But… I don’t see Nami with ‘em! They’re fish-men!! They aren’t human!!” / “She’s probably back at Arlong Park.” / DO—OM — “He’s huge!!!” / “So that’s Arlong!!!” — Arlong arrives at Coco Village, looming silhouette. Page 17 middle — wide-shot of Arlong and his crew arriving at Coco Village (“WOOOOO”): Arlong center-frame, towering, Arlong-Pirates officers flanking, villagers including the bespectacled bald man and Genzo in foreground. Page 17 bottom — Arlong’s tribute-tax doctrine monologue (continued across pages 17-19): “We don’t like trouble-makers.” / “There are 20 towns and villages under our ‘protection.’” / “The port town of Gosa rebelled, so I destroyed it as an example to the rest…” / “…is the same as rebellion!! And to refuse to pay your tribute…”

Page 18 — villagers reacting in horror (“What’s he talking about?” / “Tribute?”): Nojiko, foregrounded, calmly explaining to Usopp: “We give them money to not pillage our homes and slaughter us.” / “The money we pay them every month.” Page 18 middle — wide-shot of Coco Village street with Arlong looming in background (WOOOOO): “…we’ll be crushed like Gosa was!!!” / “And if even one person in the village can’t pay…” Page 18 bottom — Nojiko, close-up: “Humans are dirt to them.” / “That’s Arlong’s policy…” / “They think nothing of killing us.” / “That’s terrible!!! A whole town?! ‘cause of one person?!” (Usopp, horrified).

Page 19 — Arlong, looming over the crowd, behind raised arms: “I need mountains of money!!” / “Got it, inferior humans?! Don’t think about anything! Just work hard and give us our money!!!” Page 19 middle — Arlong, sharp-toothed-grin close-up (DOOM!!): “Your tribute will be the foundation of… the Arlong Empire which will rule the East Blue!!!” — the chapter’s largest reveal: Arlong’s ultimate ambition is to rule the East Blue as the Arlong Empire. The tribute is start-up capital for fishman-conquest. Page 19 bottom — Nojiko (foreground, calm) handing the bound-and-gagged Usopp a knife to cut his bindings: “Before Arlong gets back!” / “Escape! Hurry!!” / “Huh?” (Usopp). snik! — chapter ends with Nojiko cutting Usopp loose and urging escape before Arlong returns to find him.

New reveals

• Fishmen self-theory: evolved humans who developed seawater breathing (page 6). First on-page racial-self-narration. Forward-payoff: Fish-Man Island arc reveals this is propaganda — fishmen/merfolk are a separate-and-coequal race historically.
• Fishmen supremacist axiom: lords of all creation (page 6, chapter title). Distinct from individual prejudice — a cosmic-universal claim. Pre-loads the racial-supremacism doctrine the Hody-Jones arc will exploit.
• Fighting a fishman = fighting nature itself (page 6). Biological-determinism register installs.
• Half-fish is a slur taboo to fishmen (pages 5-6). Linguistic racial marker — fishmen self-name as evolved-humans, not partial-fish.
• Nami’s role within Arlong’s crew is named: SURVEYOR / cartographer-officer (page 7). The cartographer-slave hypothesis lands its on-page name.
• Nami self-confirms: I’m an officer in Arlong’s pirate crew. I was a pirate all along (page 8). Performance-vs-truth grammar at peak density — operationally true, emotionally false (she’s trying to make Zoro leave).
• Arlong canonizes the Bell-mère death on-page in oblique register: “That one even forgave the death of a parent for money. She’s our cold-blooded witch woman!!” (page 9). The Bell-mère death is now villain-narrated as a fact; the buyback contract is a blood-money arrangement.
• Arlong endorses Nami’s Ch. 8-50 thief-MO: “Trickery and treasure stealing are her specialties!” (page 9). Two-sides convergence — Nami’s villain-side employer endorses her Straw-Hat-arc behavior.
• Usopp jumps into the pool to save Zoro (pages 10-12). The brave-coward register fires at its highest scale yet; the fishmen-can’t-parse-human-drowning gag installs fishman-water-as-home-territory grammar.
• Usopp’s line “can’t stand to see a man drown” directly rebuts Arlong’s cold-blooded witch woman label for Nami by performing the virtue Arlong denies (page 12).
• Bell-mère oblique reveal: she raised Nami and Nojiko; she is now dead; both girls are orphans (page 2). Three reveals in one panel. Bell-mère identity still off-page as a name in this chapter.
• Nami and Nojiko are both orphans, both adopted by Bell-mère (page 2). They are step-sisters via adoption, not biological half-sisters.
• Coco Village center is shown on-page, named via signage (page 15). First named-via-signage establishing-shot of the village proper.
• Genzo is introduced — “GENZO, COCO VILLAGER” (page 16). Pinwheel hat (klak klak), stitched cross-face scar, fingerless gloves, weapons-collection doctrine. Village-uncle archetype installs.
• Genzo’s weapons give birth to wicked thoughts and violence doctrine (page 16, voiced by Usopp). Village-pacifism-under-Arlong-tax register.
• Arlong’s tribute-tax / village-tax regime canonized: monthly per-village tribute, one-person-can’t-pay = village-destroyed, Gosa = rebellion-punishment example (pages 17-19). The destruction of Gosa is operationally an enforcement display.
• Arlong’s ambition: the Arlong Empire which will rule the East Blue (page 19). The tribute system is start-up capital for fishman-conquest. Arlong pivots from local-extortionist to empire-builder.
• Arlong’s territorial control extends to 20 towns and villages under his protection (page 17). First on-page numeric scale of the tribute-empire — 20 settlements.
• The arc’s geography is mapped on-page (page 4). Arlong Park, Coco Village (YOU ARE HERE), Gosa Village laid out west-to-east along the coast.
• Arlong leaves Arlong Park to investigate Coco Village rumor (pages 14-17). First on-page Arlong-out-of-his-park beat; the chapter’s pivot mechanism for the Coco-Village confrontation that follows.
• Zoro is jailed inside Arlong Park by Nami’s order (page 14). The I’ll deal with him line is the she-still-cares tell — she’s putting Zoro under her own management, not the crew’s.
• Buggy cover-story Part 24: Body Parts Run Amuck (page 1). The Buggy cover-story arc continues — chop-chop-fruit at maximum chaotic deployment in cover-story form.

Mentions / appearances

• Usopp — chapter’s protagonist on the Nami-investigation side. Receives the Bell-mère-and-orphans reveal (page 2); maps the arc-geography (page 4); jumps the Arlong Park pool to rescue Zoro (pages 10-12); witnesses Arlong’s tribute-tax monologue at Coco Village (pages 15-19); cut loose by Nojiko at chapter close. Chapter’s audience-proxy-for-Coco-Village register.
• Zoro — captured inside Arlong Park (pages 5-13). First on-page Zoro-inside-Arlong-Park sequence. Bound and bandaged through the chapter (the post-Mihawk convalescence continues). Calls fishmen “half-fish” (slur-and-correction triggers the chapter’s doctrinal monologue). Refuses to recognize Nami’s villain-side identity (“Well, I never trusted her anyway.” page 9 — sarcastic). Receives Nami’s I’m a pirate all along line as the chapter’s emotional-puzzle. Jailed by Nami’s order at page 14 (“Throw him in jail. I’ll deal with him.” — the she-still-cares tell, deploy by Nami herself).
• Nami — on-page for the first time in Ch. 71 (after Ch. 70 absence). Named role: SURVEYOR / Officer Nami of Arlong’s Pirate Crew. Cow-spot-print top (the Ch. 69 East Gate outfit continues). Performs the Arlong-Pirates-officer identity at maximum intensity to drive Zoro away (pages 7-10); trips Zoro into the pool (page 10) when he won’t leave; dives in to save him when he sinks (page 11) — the chapter’s central performance-vs-truth grammar. Orders Zoro jailed (page 14). Alarmed when Arlong heads to Coco Village (page 14 — ”…!”). Off-page for the chapter’s Coco-Village final sequence.
• Arlong — on-page on his throne-recliner inside Arlong Park for the first time since Ch. 69. Delivers the Lords of All Creation doctrine (page 6 — through his crewman’s mouth) and the cold-blooded witch woman line (page 9). Leaves Arlong Park (pages 14-17) to investigate Coco Village. Arrives at Coco Village (page 17); delivers the tribute-tax monologue (pages 17-19); declares the Arlong Empire ambition (page 19). Chapter’s villain-doctrine-deployer at maximum intensity.
• Nojiko — chapter’s emotional-anchor character. Opens the chapter at her tangerine-grove house with Usopp. Delivers the Bell-mère-is-dead / both-orphans reveal (page 2). Sketches the arc-geography map (page 4). Reappears at Coco Village in the second half — explains the tribute-tax regime to Usopp (page 18). Cuts Usopp loose at chapter close (page 19) and urges his escape. The Ch. 70 adult-who-knows-more-than-she-says register is here operationally the chapter’s exposition-courier voice for the village-side.
• Chabo — off-page; referenced indirectly (the Ch. 70 bring-him-home completion is implicit).
• Bell-mère — off-page; named obliquely as the one who raised us who is dead now (page 2, Nojiko). The Ch. 50 name-drop is here biographically extended without the name being re-uttered. Named in Arlong’s voice obliquely as a parent whose death Nami forgave for money (page 9). Two oblique references in two characters’ voices. The Bell-mère identity-name remains pending the flashback chapters.
• Genzo — first appearance (page 16). Title-card debut: “GENZO — COCO VILLAGER.” Pinwheel hat (klak klak), stitched cross-face scar from forehead to chin, sideburns, fingerless gloves, metal-studded vest. Weapons-collection doctrine. Village-uncle archetype. Future-confidante to Bell-mère and Nami (pending flashback).
• Arlong Pirates — interior of Arlong Park fully on-page for the first time. Multiple background officers visible around the pool (page 8 wide-shot). Sword-toothed Arlong-Pirates-crewman delivers the Lords of All Creation monologue. Hatchan presumably present (the “And we back her up.” line, page 9, fits a Hatchan voice). Crew operates as fishman-supremacist cult through the chapter.
• Straw Hat Pirates — Usopp + Zoro on-page, both inside or near Arlong Park. Nami operationally on the Arlong side. Crew remains maximally dispersed.
• Arlong Park — interior shown on-page for the first time (pages 5-14). Central pagoda with ARLONG PARK signage on facade; pool/courtyard at center; recliner-throne for Arlong on one side. The Ch. 69 establishing-shot is now interior-resolved.
• Coco Village — on-page village-center shown for the first time (pages 15-19). Palm-lined dirt street, wooden buildings, thatched-roof bus-stop structure, signposts. Village-center geography installed.
• Gosa Village — off-page; named in Arlong’s tribute-tax monologue (page 17) as the rebellion-punishment example village.
• East Blue — Arlong’s Empire claim is over the East Blue (page 19) — the saga-tier territorial claim is named.
• Fish-Men — racial-self-theory delivered in fishman voice on-page (page 6). The evolved-humans / Lords of All Creation doctrine installs as the race’s on-page self-narrative.
• Buggy, Mohji, Cabaji, Richie — cover-story Part 24 (page 1).
• Going Merry — off-page; named in Usopp’s go Merrily away from here line (page 4) and in Nojiko’s map (page 4).

Open questions raised

• Why does Nami so calmly perform the I’m a pirate all along identity to Zoro, then dive to save him? The chapter installs the performance-vs-truth gap at maximum intensity but withholds the explanation.
• What is Nami’s exact role as Arlong’s Surveyor? The chapter names the role but doesn’t show her doing it.
• Who is Bell-mère and how did she die? The chapter confirms she existed, raised both girls, and is dead — but not the name (this chapter), the relationship-mechanism (adoption pre-orphan-pickup), or the death.
• Why did Nami forgive a parent’s death for money? Arlong narrates this as fact (page 9) — but the chapter holds the how and why off-page.
• What is the Arlong Empire’s structural shape — just East Blue, or does it have ambitions beyond? The chapter declares East Blue as the territorial scope; whether this is the ceiling or the starting point is unclear. (Forward: the Arlong arc holds the East Blue ceiling; later fishman-supremacist movements like Hody Jones’s New Fish-Man Pirates inherit the fishman-conquest-of-the-surface doctrine at full-world scale.)
• What is Genzo’s relationship to Bell-mère and Nami? The chapter installs him as a Coco-Village elder but holds the family/protective relationships off-page. (Forward: the flashback chapters reveal Genzo as Bell-mère’s confidante and Nami’s village-uncle figure.)
• What is the symbolic register of Genzo’s pinwheel? Strange visual choice that the chapter foregrounds without explanation.
• What does Usopp do next? The chapter cliffhangs with Nojiko cutting him loose to flee before Arlong returns. (Forward: Usopp escapes to find Luffy; the Coco-Village-confrontation pivots to the arrival of the Straw Hats.)
• Will Zoro escape Arlong Park’s jail? The chapter ends with Zoro under Nami’s order, jailed inside Arlong Park.
• What happens when the fishmen-as-evolved-humans doctrine is challenged? The chapter installs the racial-supremacist doctrine; the Arlong-arc combat resolves it by Luffy’s victory. (Forward: every later fishman/merfolk story in the series reads against the Ch. 71 doctrine — including Otohime’s coexistence message and Hody Jones’s supremacist inheritance.)

Cross-references to existing vault notes

• Nami — Ch. 71 is the operational confirmation chapter for the Surveyor of Arlong’s crew role + the I was a pirate all along self-statement. Add an Arlong-arc-opener entry to her arc-by-arc updates (and update last_appearance).
• Arlong — Ch. 71 is Arlong’s doctrine-deployment-at-scale chapter — Lords of All Creation, Arlong Empire, cold-blooded witch woman, 20 villages under protection, tribute-tax canonization. Update last_appearance to Ch. 71; add Arlong-Park-interior + Coco-Village-arrival arc-by-arc entries.
• Nojiko — Ch. 71 adds the Bell-mère-is-dead / both-orphans reveal, the arc-geography map sketch, the tribute-tax exposition, and the cut-Usopp-loose scene. Update last_appearance; add Ch. 71 arc-by-arc entry.
• Zoro — Ch. 71 is Zoro’s first-on-page-inside-Arlong-Park chapter. Update last_appearance; add arc-by-arc entry.
• Usopp — Ch. 71 adds the pool-rescue-of-Zoro beat and the Coco-Village-witness beat. Update last_appearance; add Ch. 71 arc-by-arc entry.
• Bell-mère — Ch. 71 oblique reveals: the one who raised us is dead now (Nojiko, page 2); forgave the death of a parent for money (Arlong, page 9). Add Ch. 71 to evidence_chapters of any open Bell-mère thread.
• Nami Backstory and Bell-mere — Ch. 71 adds: (1) the parent-death + blood-money canonization in Arlong’s voice, (2) the Bell-mère raised both Nami and Nojiko + both girls are orphans clarification, (3) the Surveyor role-specification, (4) the tribute-tax / 20 villages operational mechanics. Major evidence-ledger entry. Maturity pivot from seed-name-step-family-source-revealed to seed-name-step-family-source-mechanism-and-blood-money-revealed.
• Arlong Pirates — Ch. 71 adds the Lords of All Creation doctrine + the Arlong Empire operational ambition + the 20 villages under protection scale. Major update.
• Arlong Park — Ch. 71 is the interior reveal chapter. Add interior establishing-shots (pool, recliner-throne, pagoda interior).
• Cocoyasi Village — Ch. 71 is the village-center reveal chapter. Add village-street establishing-shot + Genzo as a notable_resident.
• Fish-Men — Ch. 71 adds the evolved-humans / Lords of All Creation / fighting-the-power-of-nature-itself racial-self-theory. Major update.
• Nami Is An Officer In Arlongs Crew — Ch. 71 advances from single-panel reveal to role-specified + self-confirmed; add Ch. 71 to seed/payoff chapters.
• Coco Village Witch Reputation — Ch. 71 escalates to cold-blooded witch woman (villain-side); add Ch. 71.
• Arlong Anti-Human-Male Doctrine — Ch. 71 expands to Lords of All Creation cosmic-axis.
• Fish-Men Ten Times Human Strength — Ch. 71 re-frames the multiplier as fishman-self-mythology.
• Fishmen As Grand-Line-Tier In East Blue — Ch. 71 extends to fighting nature itself.
• Gosa Village Flipped Upside Down — Ch. 71 contextualizes Gosa as the rebellion-punishment example.
• Buggy Crew Post-Battle Cover Story — Part 24 (Ch. 71) installment.