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Chapter 77: The First Step Toward a Dream

Summary

Chapter 77 is the Bell-mère introduction — a long, nested flashback that delivers the Nami family origin in a single chapter. The chapter opens in present-day Coco Village (page 2): Luffy, having just declined to hear Nami’s backstory (‘I’m not interested in her past!! I don’t care.’ / ‘I’m going for a walk.’), walks off down the beach; Zoro, Usopp, and Nojiko remain — Nojiko offers to tell the story to whoever will listen. Cut (page 4) to Nami’s house — Nami wakes alone (‘I must’ve dozed off.’), notes Nojiko is gone, glances at the tangerine basket, and the chapter enters her own memory-flashback: ’…Belle-mère. Soon… and my dream… Coco Village… the tangerine groves… soon it will all return.’

The flashback (pages 5-17) is Nami’s eight-year-old memory of the day she ran away from home. Pages 5-8: eight-year-old Nami steals a navigation textbook from the Coco Village bookstore, is chased by Genzo (Marine-style cap with pinwheel, mustache, village constable register). Bell-mère arrives — title-card: ‘BELLE-MÈRE — NAMI AND NOJIKO’S FOSTER MOTHER’ (page 6). Bell-mère pays the shopkeeper for the book, slaps Nami across the face for stealing, then immediately negotiates a ‘pay you back in kisses’ deal with Genzo. Pages 8-9: at home, Bell-mère and Nojiko examine the stolen book; Bell-mère discovers it’s a navigation textbook and Nami’s hand-drawn island-map. Nami declares her dream: ‘Someday I’m gonna navigate my way all around the seas. And when I’ve seen everything with my own eyes, I’m gonna make a map of the whole world!!’ Bell-mère, smiling: ‘A map of the world? Why that’s wonderful! Then this map of the island you drew today is the first step toward your dream!!’ — the chapter’s title-line lands in Bell-mère’s voice.

Pages 10-13: comic-banter dinner turns into a family fight. Bell-mère refuses to eat (‘I’m on a DIET!!’), brags about tangerines as a beauty product (‘I’m 30 years old… but thanks to tangerines, I have the skin of a 19-year-old.’); Nami, hungry and angry about new clothes vs. hand-me-downs (page 11: ‘Mine aren’t new!!’ / ‘I want new clothes, too!!’), erupts: ‘WE’RE NOT EVEN REAL SISTERS!! WE’RE NOT RELATED BY BLOOD!!’ (page 11 final, to Nojiko). Bell-mère slaps her (SWAK!!). Page 12: Nami doubles down: ‘You’re not our real mother either, Belle-mère. You’d be better off without us!! Then you’d have enough to eat!! And you could buy nice clothes for yourself!! You’d be FREE!!’ / ‘I… I WISH I’D BEEN FOUND BY RICH PEOPLE!!!’ — and she runs out (page 13: ‘I’M LEAVING!!!’). Bell-mère, stunned, calls after her then sits down: ‘That was childish of me.’ Nojiko (page 13, end): ‘You’re a steady one, Nojiko.’

Pages 14-17: Nojiko, calm, asks Bell-mère if she should bring Nami back. Cut to Coco Village proper — Nami has run all the way from the outskirts to the center of the village (Genzo: ‘What a journey!’). Genzo welcomes runaway-Nami into his place. Nami says she’s a burden: ‘We’re the reason she’s so poor… and the villagers get mad at her ‘cause of me. Belle-mère would be happier without us.’ Genzo laughs (‘Ha ha ha!! Starting to understand consequences, eh?’) and tells her: ‘Sure. And in the minds of some of the villagers… she’s still a bad kid.’ / ‘Don’t worry! When Belle-mère was your age, she was the terror of the village.’ / ‘But when Belle-mère ran away from here… There was a terrible storm…’ (page 15, KSHHH rain panel).

Genzo’s flashback inside Nami’s flashback (pages 15-17): Bell-mère as a young woman, ~Nami’s-present-age, returns from war as a fighting sailor — Marine-style cape, severely wounded, carrying two infants: ‘She’s carrying a couple of kids!! They’re cold and sick!!! They’re burning up with fever!!!’ / ‘Get the doctor!!!’ Bell-mère refuses care: ‘Don’t worry about me!! Please, just save the children!!! SAVE THEM!!!’ / ‘I’ve got ‘em!! Belle-mère, you’re hurt bad…’ (page 16). Genzo to Nami in the village-frame: ‘But she told me she’d been left for dead on a battlefield… That was Belle-mère’s story.’ Nami: ‘ME?! But I thought I was found under a bridge…’ Genzo: ‘You were just a baby, and Nojiko was three years old.’ / ‘When Nojiko came along, carrying you… She was about to close her eyes and die… So she decided to live.’ The chapter installs the double-foundling battlefield-rescue origin of the Nami family: Bell-mère, dying on a battlefield, decided to live because the toddler Nojiko was holding the infant Nami — and the three of them chose each other in that single mutual-rescue moment.

Page 17 final: Bell-mère arrives at Genzo’s to collect Nami (‘NAMI!!! THERE YOU ARE!!’). Genzo, in a closing voice-over panel: ‘The bond between you three… is deeper than blood!!’ — the chapter’s canonical line. Page 18: not story — it is the Usopp Pirate Gallery fan-art column, with reader-submitted drawings of Sanji, Zoro, Nami, Mohmoo, and others; not a story page but a Vol. 9 paratext page.

The chapter’s compositional achievement: a Bell-mère introduction told only through Nami’s own remembered fight with her. Bell-mère’s first chapter on-page is the chapter where eight-year-old Nami screams ‘I WISH I’D BEEN FOUND BY RICH PEOPLE!!!’ at her — and the chapter’s emotional climax is the truth Bell-mère and Nojiko have always kept from Nami: she was found dying on a battlefield, carried by a toddler-Nojiko, and Bell-mère chose to live to save them. The chapter holds the non-blood doctrine (Nami’s attack: ‘we’re not related by blood’) and the non-blood reality (Genzo’s reveal: ‘the bond… is deeper than blood’) in adjacent registers across a single chapter — the chapter is the Oda foster-family-grammar manifesto in compressed form.

New reveals

• Bell-mère appears on-page for the first time (page 6). Red-haired, plaid-shirt, cigarette, MACE-tattooed chest, jeans — the tough-tomboyish-single-mother visual register. 27 chapters after her name-drop (Ch. 50), the character has a face.
• Bell-mère canonized as foster mother, not step-mother (page 6 title-card: ‘NAMI AND NOJIKO’S FOSTER MOTHER’). The Ch. 70 step-sister terminology is refined — the family is chosen (foster), not formed by remarriage. Nami and Nojiko are both foundlings.
• Genzo introduced (page 5). Pinwheel-on-hat, mustache, striped police-style uniform with shoulder boards. The village-constable / elder-disciplinarian role. The pinwheel is his recurring visual signature for the rest of the series.
• Bell-mère is a former Marine (‘fighting sailor’) (pages 15-16). Genzo’s flashback-narration: Bell-mère ran away from Coco Village in a storm, returned a fighting sailor. The chapter installs Bell-mère’s pre-foster-mother identity as a Marine veteran with active combat experience.
• Bell-mère adopted Nami and Nojiko as battlefield foundlings (pages 16-17). Bell-mère, severely wounded, returned from a battlefield carrying an infant (Nami) and a toddler (Nojiko, 3). She refused medical care until the children were treated, and decided to live because of them.
• Nami believed she was ‘found under a bridge’ until Genzo tells her the truth this chapter (page 16). The battlefield-rescue origin has been withheld from Nami her whole life — by Bell-mère, Nojiko, and Genzo collectively. This chapter is the first telling to Nami.
• Nami’s life-dream is to navigate the world and draw a map of the whole world (page 9). Eight-year-old Nami’s stated dream — first on-page articulation of the world-map dream. Joins the Straw-Hat recruitment canonical each-recruit-has-a-dream set.
• Chapter title (‘The First Step Toward a Dream’) is Bell-mère’s line (page 9). Bell-mère’s response to Nami’s world-map dream: ‘Then this map of the island you drew today is the first step toward your dream!!’ The chapter title is the foster mother’s blessing on the daughter’s dream — and the chapter ends with the foster mother dead-in-flashback-future and the daughter operationally enslaved by Arlong, still pursuing the dream.
• Bell-mère’s age is 30 (page 10 — her own boast). The Nami-age-8 / Nojiko-age-10 / Bell-mère-age-30 family timeline places the battlefield rescue ~10 years ago in flashback-time (Bell-mère ~20 carrying both girls home).
• Bell-mère’s bond-deeper-than-blood doctrine (pages 11-12, 17). Articulated in slap-and-instruction register (page 12: ‘So what if you’re not related by blood?!’) and named by Genzo in the chapter’s final line (page 17: ‘The bond between you three… is deeper than blood!!’). The chapter is the canonical-source for one of Oda’s recurring family-grammar pieces.
• Nami’s childhood was book-stealing-for-self-education (pages 5-7). The cat-burglar adult identity has a poverty-driven child-thief origin. Bell-mère’s countervailing instruction ‘WE DO NOT STEAL!!’ (page 8) is the moral inheritance Nami inverts when she adopts the steal-only-from-pirates code as a survival-adaptation later.
• The stolen book was a NAVIGATION textbook (page 9). Nami’s stealing and world-map dream are causally bound from childhood — she stole to learn cartography. The Ch. 8 self-introduction ‘I rob pirates’ and the Ch. 9 make-a-map-of-the-whole-world dream are the same backstory.
• Coco Village tangerine grove is in commodity glut (page 8). Bell-mère: ‘all the groves are full of tangerines. They’re awful hard to sell right now.’ The economic precarity of the household is established before the Arlong-tribute is on-page — the household was already strained when Arlong arrived.
• Luffy’s ‘I don’t care about her past’ doctrine (page 2). Luffy declines to hear Nami’s backstory. The Ch. 14 registered-the-wound-without-asking-for-specifics read is here operationalized as a stated stance — Luffy will help without knowing the why.
• Chapter’s frame structure is three-nested-flashback: present-day → Nami’s 8-years-ago memory → Genzo’s flashback within Nami’s memory. The Bell-mère introduction is told entirely from inside Nami’s head (with Genzo as narrator-witness for what Nami couldn’t have witnessed).
• Color title-page (page 1): Zoro, Yosaku, Johnny dining together. The Yosaku/Johnny title-page acknowledgment of their arc-spanning expository-courier role from Ch. 49-76.

Mentions / appearances

• Bell-mère — first on-page appearance. Red-haired, tomboyish, plaid shirt over white tank top with chest tattoo (MACE or similar), cigarette, jeans. Foster mother to Nami and Nojiko (title-card page 6). Age 30 (her own boast page 10). Former Marine sailor (pages 15-16 — Genzo’s narration: ‘a fighting sailor’). Battlefield adoption of Nami (infant) and Nojiko (age 3). Refuses food so the girls can eat. Slaps Nami for stealing and for the ‘we’re not related by blood’ outburst. Articulates ‘So what if you’re not related by blood?!’ — the chapter’s bond-doctrine line. Survives the chapter.
• Genzo — first appearance (page 5; title-card ‘GENZO (8 YEARS AGO)’). Pinwheel-on-Marine-style-cap, mustache, striped uniform with shoulder boards. Village constable register. Narrator-witness for Bell-mère’s pre-Cocoyasi backstory. Adult-disciplinarian-with-soft-undertone register.
• Nami — present-day (page 2: asleep at Nojiko’s; page 4: wakes alone). 8-year-old (pages 5-17 flashback): book-thief, navigator-aspirant, runaway-and-returned. Title-card ‘NAMI (8 YEARS AGO)’ page 5. Dreams of mapping the whole world (page 9). Screams ‘WE’RE NOT EVEN REAL SISTERS!!’ (page 11) and ‘I WISH I’D BEEN FOUND BY RICH PEOPLE!!!’ (page 12). Hears battlefield-adoption story for the first time from Genzo (page 16). Both Nami-present (asleep/woken) and Nami-flashback (eight years old) are on-page in the chapter.
• Nojiko — present-day off-panel (Nami calls ‘Nojiko?’ on waking, page 4; not in the house). Flashback: 10 years old, title-card ‘NOJIKO (8 YEARS AGO)’ page 8. The steady, calm older sister register established early — comforts Bell-mère after Nami runs away: ‘Belle-mère, Nami didn’t mean it!!’ The chapter installs the adult-Nojiko-personality-was-already-present-at-age-10 observation. Implicitly: Nojiko is telling the chapter’s flashback to Zoro and Usopp in the present-day frame (page 3 hint: ‘We’ll listen to your story.’).
• Luffy — present-day, page 2. ‘I’m not interested in her past!! I don’t care.’ / ‘Nope. I’ll pass.’ / ‘I’m going for a walk.’ Walks away from the storytelling circle. Doesn’t appear again in the chapter. Returns presumably for next chapter’s combat-pivot.
• Zoro — present-day, pages 2-3. ‘He’s quirky. Don’t worry about him.’ / ‘Me too. ♡’ (smirking) / ‘Well, I’d like to hear what you have to say!’ Stays to listen — opposite of Luffy’s stance, both equally character-consistent. Also on title-page (page 1).
• Usopp — present-day, pages 2-3. ‘What’s with him?’ / ’……’ / ‘Hey, you said you’d LISTEN!!! Especially since you’re asleep…’ (yelling at sleeping Nami, comic register). Stays to listen.
• Sanji — referenced via fan-art on Usopp’s Pirate Gallery page (page 18); appears in title text ‘ONE PIECE HEARTTHROB, SANJI’. Not on-page in the story proper.
• Yosaku — color title-page (page 1) only. Not in story body.
• Johnny — color title-page (page 1) only. Not in story body.
• Arlong — not on-page, not directly named in story body (mentioned in title-card / Nami’s memory only as the off-screen present-day threat). The Bell-mère flashback pointedly withholds Arlong — the Bell-mère introduction is pre-Arlong-tribute, when the household had only the commodity-glut economic strain.
• Coco Village — both present-day (page 2-4) and 8-years-ago (pages 5-17). Page 14 wide-shot of Coco Village’s center: a small flag-banner town with palm trees, the title-card ‘COCO VILLAGE’. The chapter shows the village center for the first time (Ch. 70 only showed the outskirts / Nojiko’s house). The bookstore is in the village center; Genzo’s house is in the village center; Bell-mère’s house is on the outskirts (tangerine grove).
• Nojiko’s House — present-day frame setting (pages 2, 4) — same tangerine-grove house from Ch. 70.
• Straw Hat Pirates — Luffy, Zoro, Usopp on-page present-day; the crew is at Nojiko’s listening to backstory while Luffy goes for a walk.
• Arlong Pirates — off-page; referenced only via the wanted-poster wall in Genzo’s home (page 14-15 background — bountied villains pinned to wall) and via Nami’s pre-flashback gaze.

Notable panels

• Page 1 — Color title-page (Zoro, Yosaku, Johnny dining): full-page color art. Zoro center, holding a katana to cut a wine-bottle cork, surrounded by chickens and bottles, with Yosaku and Johnny on either side of the table. The Yosaku/Johnny title-page acknowledgment.
• Page 2 — Luffy’s I don’t care about her past declaration + walking away: split-panel composition. Top tier: Luffy in close-up, DOOM!! SFX, ‘I don’t care. I’m not interested in her past!!’ — straw hat shadowing his eyes. Middle tier: Luffy walking down the beach away from the group (TMP TMP), ‘I’m going for a walk.’ Bottom tier: Zoro (smirking) — ‘He’s quirky. Don’t worry about him.’ / Nojiko (‘What’s with him?’). The chapter opens by establishing the storyteller-audience composition (Nojiko narrator, Zoro/Usopp audience, Luffy absent-by-choice).
• Page 4 — Nami wakes, gaze on the tangerines, flashback trigger: Nami’s ‘I must’ve dozed off.’ / ‘Where’d she go? Nojiko?’ establishing-shot of the empty house, then a quiet panel of Nami staring at the tangerine basket. Speech bubbles next to her face: ’…Belle-mère.’ / ‘Soon…’ / ‘and my dream.’ / ‘Coco Village… the tangerine groves… soon it will all return.’ The chapter’s flashback-trigger panel: Nami’s gaze on Bell-mère’s tangerines is the memory-cue that frames the rest of the chapter.
• Page 5 — Eight-year-old Nami running with stolen book + Genzo introduction: opening flashback panels. Nami chased through Coco Village’s center, clutching a thick navigation textbook (KLIK KLIK KLIK SFX of chase), Genzo yelling ‘OF COURSE! IT’S A BOOKSTORE, YOU SILLY KID!! BUT THAT DOESN’T GIVE YOU LICENSE TO STEAL!!’ Title-cards bottom-of-page: ‘NAMI (8 YEARS AGO)’ / ‘GENZO (8 YEARS AGO)’. The chapter’s flashback-character-introduction grammar — two title-cards in one panel for two characters whose presence in present-day-flashback-time is the chapter’s compositional core.
• Page 6 — Bell-mère’s first on-page appearance + title-card: Bell-mère bursts into frame, hand on hip, glaring at Genzo. The title-card panel: ‘BELLE-MÈRE — NAMI AND NOJIKO’S FOSTER MOTHER’ — composed as a label-panel matching the Ch. 27/41 / Ch. 70 character-introduction grammar. The chapter binds the name Bell-mère (Ch. 50) to the face for the first time. Plaid shirt over white tank top with the MACE chest-tattoo, jeans, cigarette in mouth, short cropped red-orange hair, severe expression.
• Page 7 — Bell-mère’s I’ll pay in kisses ♡ + slap-on-Nami composition: Bell-mère deflects Genzo’s ‘You’re the reason she’s like this!!’ with a flirtatious ‘I’m flat broke right now, but I’ll pay you back later… in kisses ♡’ (Genzo: ‘Your face is purple ♡’ / ‘IT’S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY!!!’ + CRAZY!! SFX as Genzo blushes). The chapter installs Bell-mère’s comic-flirt-deflection register — used to defuse her own daughter’s misdeed. Then the slap on Nami for stealing (visual: KLIK KLIK KLIK SFX again — Bell-mère’s hand off Nami’s head, Nami clutching the book).
• Page 8 — WE DO NOT STEAL!! slap + tangerine-glut economic-tell: Bell-mère: ‘WE DO NOT STEAL!!’ (a forceful slap on Nami’s head — OUCH!!). Then the ‘it’s just that the weather’s been so good that all the groves are full of tangerines. They’re awful hard to sell right now’ — the chapter’s economic-context delivered in a parenting-aside register. Nojiko (with kid’s headband, title-card ‘NOJIKO (8 YEARS AGO)’): ‘If I’d stolen it, I wouldn’t have got caught!’ + ‘You’re clumsy, Nami!’.
• Page 9 — Nami’s world-map dream + chapter-title-line: full-page composition focused on the conversation. Bell-mère reading the navigation textbook + Nami’s hand-drawn island-map. ‘A map of the island! I knew you could draw ocean charts, but you’ve learned to draw land maps, too?!’ / ‘What a clever girl.’ / Nami: ‘I’m studying navigation.’ / Bell-mère: ‘That’s your dream, huh?’ / Nami (laughing, eyes-closed, joyful — page 9 mid-tier): ‘Yup. Someday I’m gonna navigate my way all around the seas. And when I’ve seen everything with my own eyes, I’m gonna make a map of the whole world!!’ Bell-mère (smiling, holding the island-map up): ‘A map of the world? Why that’s wonderful!’ / ‘Then this map of the island you drew today is the first step toward your dream!!’ The chapter’s canonical dream-and-blessing panel.
• Page 10 — Family dinner / I’m on a DIET / high fashion Belle-mère style!!: comic-banter dinner. Bell-mère refusing tangerines, claiming she’s on a diet and that tangerines have beautifying effects. The exchange: Bell-mère: ‘I’m 30 years old… but thanks to tangerines, I have the skin of a 19-year-old.’ / Nami: ‘But your hands are orange!!’ / Nojiko (laughing, supportive): ‘High fashion, Belle-mère style!!’ The chapter’s age-canonization (Bell-mère = 30) and the family’s affectionate-comic register moment — immediately preceding the chapter’s emotional turn.
• Page 11 — WE’RE NOT EVEN REAL SISTERS!! WE’RE NOT RELATED BY BLOOD!! + Bell-mère slap: Nami, raging about clothes, screaming the line in close-up (Bell-mère/Nojiko in background, stunned). Final panel: SWAK!! — Bell-mère’s full-arc slap landing on Nami’s face. The chapter’s emotional-pivot panel.
• Page 12 — ‘You’d be free!!’ / ‘I WISH I’D BEEN FOUND BY RICH PEOPLE!!!’ + Bell-mère’s bond-not-blood doctrine: Nami’s full breakdown — ‘You’re not our real mother either, Belle-mère. You’d be better off without us!! Then you’d have enough to eat!! And you could buy nice clothes for yourself!! You’d be FREE!!’ — and the page-bottom close-up: ‘I… I WISH I’D BEEN FOUND BY RICH PEOPLE!!!’ — the most devastating line. Bell-mère’s ‘Don’t ever say such a foolish thing again!! What difference does that make?!’ / ‘So what if you’re not related by blood?!’ counter-line installed.
• Page 13 — I’M LEAVING!!! / Nojiko That was childish of me / Bell-mère’s stunned recovery: Nami runs out (WHAM!!). Bell-mère sits down (WUMP…): ‘That was childish of me.’ Nojiko (in the background, calmly): ‘You’re a steady one, Nojiko.’ — the chapter installs Bell-mère’s self-recognition of her own emotional escalation, and Nojiko’s adult-Nojiko-already-present-at-10 register.
• Page 14 — Nojiko Will you go bring Nami back? + Coco Village center wide-shot: Bell-mère, smile-recovered: ‘Okay!! I’ll have a nice dinner waiting.’ Then a wide-shot of Coco Village’s center (palm trees, banner-flags, marketplace, locals chatting) with the title-card ‘COCO VILLAGE’. First wide-shot of the village proper across the series. Nami: ‘That’s right! I ran away from home!’ / ‘All the way from the outskirts to the center of the village!’ / Genzo: ‘What a journey!’ — the chapter pivots from Bell-mère’s house to Genzo’s place.
• Page 15 — Genzo Belle-mère was the terror of the village + storm panel: Genzo at his desk, wanted-poster wall in background. ‘Don’t worry! When Belle-mère was your age, she was the terror of the village.’ / ‘Ha ha ha!! Starting to understand consequences, eh?’ Then the storm panel (KSHHH rain falling): ‘There was a terrible storm… I’ll never forget it.’ / ‘She surprised the whole village… and came back a fighting sailor…’ Bell-mère in young-woman-in-Marine-cape silhouette emerging from the storm. The chapter’s Bell-mère-as-Marine-veteran canonization panel.
• Page 16 — Battlefield-return of Bell-mère with two children (Genzo’s flashback): Bell-mère in young-woman register, severely wounded, blood and sweat, carrying two children (a toddler-Nojiko and an infant-Nami visible in her arms). Villager exclamations: ‘She’s carrying a couple of kids!! They’re cold and sick!!! They’re burning up with fever!!! Get the doctor!!!’ / ‘Hey! Belle-mère is back!’ Bell-mère, swaying, blood at her shoulder: ‘Don’t worry about me!! Please, just save the children!!! SAVE THEM!!!’ Villager: ‘I’ve got ‘em!! Belle-mère, you’re hurt bad…’ — KSHHHH rain continues. Then Genzo’s voice in present-flashback-frame: ‘But she told me she’d been left for dead on a battlefield… That was Belle-mère’s story.’ Nami’s reaction: ‘ME?! But I thought I was found under a bridge…’ — the chapter’s most-load-bearing reveal panel: Bell-mère’s adoption-story has been withheld from Nami her whole life. Genzo: ‘You were just a baby, and Nojiko was three years old.’
• Page 17 — She decided to live + Bell-mère arriving for runaway-Nami + bond deeper than blood tagline: Nami in a quiet panel hearing the rest of Genzo’s story. Cut to baby-Nami and toddler-Nojiko on a battlefield: ‘When Nojiko came along, carrying you…’ — toddler-Nojiko walking through wreckage, baby-Nami in her arms, Bell-mère in the dirt fading out, eyes closing. ‘She was about to close her eyes and die…’ / ‘So she decided to live.’ Then a single panel of baby-Nami laughing (HEE HEE HEE): ‘She has no idea of the suffering around her.’ / ‘She’s laughing!!!’ — toddler-Nojiko, Bell-mère, and infant-Nami’s first moment together visualized. Cut back to present-flashback-frame: Bell-mère arriving at Genzo’s door: ‘NAMI!!! THERE YOU ARE!!’ / Genzo, walking Nami back: ‘Now go home. Your escort’s here.’ / ‘The bond between you three…’ / (full-panel close-up of Genzo): ‘…is deeper than blood!!’ — the chapter’s canonical-line panel.
• Page 18 — Usopp Pirate Gallery fan-art column (not story): paratext page. Reader-submitted fan art of Sanji (‘ONE PIECE HEARTTHROB, SANJI’ — Melanie, 18), Zoro (Andy, 14, ‘I’ll be the greatest swordsman in the world!!’ dialogue), Nami (‘THE WORLD’S BEST NAVIGATOR’ — Timothy, 23), Brandon’s drawing of ‘WHO’S THE TOUGHEST PIRATE HERE?’ (a row of pirates), a comic Mohmoo (Clave, 13 — ‘UH-OH! IT’S MOMOO!’ / ‘MOOO MOO oh ho ho! ROCKS!!’), and Nami winking (Rachel, 13). Banner: ‘IT’S USOPP’S PIRATE GALLERY!’ / ‘AHOY! LOOKS LIKE A FINE DAY FOR ART!’ — Vol. 9 paratext. Not a story page.