One Piece (ワンピース)

The world. What a glorious place!

Seek freedom and it will lie stretched out before your eyes.

If the endless dream guides your restless spirit, seize it!

Raise your flag, and stand tall!

I think back to the time when my search first began--

I left behind those shores of sand--

For the endless, everlasting world out there...

I know that with this burning passion driving me--

Someday, somewhere, I'll finally--

See the light I have searched for everywhere (ere-ere!)

When the summer sun is shining,

shaking the sails of my heart, I know...

A brand-new world that had been hiding

has opened up its doors for me to go...

Swaying in the troubled waves--

From all despair, I can be saved--

For the horizon on the other side is--

Is what I aim for!

And though I've traveled far from where my search began--

Over seas of green and shores of sand--

Through the endless, everlasting world out there...

I know that with this burning passion driving me--

Someday, somewhere, I'll finally--

See the light I have searched for everywhere!

You know what? That place was pretty awesome, wasn't it?

Uh, I think I've had enough of that ship graveyard.

Well, it's not like I want to live there,

but it would be nice to visit.

I can't believe you actually enjoyed that.

Hmm? Is that rain?

No way. This ain't rain.

That's interesting.

It looks like a-- Oh.

"Caught Log!

The King of Salvagers, Masira!"

Grab a holda something!

Whatever you do, don't let go!

Why are there ships falling out of the sky?

Oh!!

I know. This is just an awful dream!

Great, I love dreams!

Heads up! I don't think the party's over yet!

It won't stop falling!

The rudder! Turn the rudder!

That'll never work in these waves!

Luffy, you gotta protect the ship!

She's taking a beating!

Right! Huh?

Usopp?

I cast aside my worries

and reach deep within to find my happy place.

And when I open my eyes,

this serene landscape is all that will lay before me.

A skeleton-dead guy!

Don't throw the nasty thing at me, you idiot!

They're falling everywhere!

I'm surrounded by death!

When is this stuff gonna stop falling?!

All right.

Why did a ship just fall out of the sky?

Captain error?

The sky's clear.

Who knows?

I knew coming to the Grand Line was a mistake.

It freaks me out.

First we travel over a ship graveyard

and now they're falling out of the sky complete with skeletons.

Huh?

What's wrong, Nami?

Problem?

Oh no!

The Log Pose is broken.

It's pointing into the sky.

It's not broken.

The Log Pose registers an island with a strong magnetic pull,

and its needle is reflecting that.

Huh?

If the needle is pointing toward the sky,

then it must be pointing toward sky island.

Sky island?

Are you serious?

There's a floating island up there?

If there is one, then it's full of skeletons

and rickety old ships.

That's ridiculous.

I don't see anything but sky.

Hmmm... That's not exactly how it works.

It's not an island above us but an entire ocean.

No way.

I'm still confused.

Yeah!

Raise the sails and set our course for sky island!

Men, are we ready?

Put the rudder down, and point the bow high into the sky!

Skyward, ho!

Did it just hit you?

The fact that, you know, we can't fly and all that?

To tell you the truth,

all I know about sky island is word of mouth; rumor.

I've never actually seen it.

Of course not!

Because it's a lie!

Islands don't float in the sky.

Our Log Pose is broken.

That's all it is.

Not quite, Miss Navigator.

You're trying to fix something that's not even broken.

We should be trying to find a way to get to sky island.

You really need to learn to trust your instruments.

No matter how crazy things get,

or how weird the situation is we find ourselves in,

never doubt the Log Pose.

Out here, on the water, this is one of

the most steadfast and unbreakable rules.

What we should be doubting is the common sense

we all have that tells us

an island cannot exist in the sky on an ocean of nothing.

That needle is pointing toward an island.

I'd bet my life on it.

That's disgusting,

digging through a dead man's clothes.

That's really gonna tell you something?

Dunno.

You're into some pretty weird stuff, Robin.

Any lady with a fascination

for dead things is interesting in my book.

Hmm?

Where'd Luffy go?

Okay, jump!

What kind of trouble

are those two getting themselves into now?

Probably the bad kind.

Hey! Looks good as new.

Except for the holes on the crown.

Those came from an external source.

Oh yeah.

Looks like it could have been arrows or a spear, or something.

Not quite but good guess.

These are from a medical procedure called craterization.

Right, doctor?

Mm. An ancient one.

They cut out a small hole in the skull

to remove a foreign mass, like a tumor.

And since it leaves a crater behind,

that's how you get the name.

Knowing how old of a technique this is

I'd say this man has been dead at least 200 years.

I can also say with confidence this man was

in his early thirties when he died.

It must have been during his voyage

that he finally succumbed to the illness, whatever it was.

Much more than the rest of his bones,

his teeth have remained in surprisingly good condition.

Because he rubbed tar on them.

It was a common practice in the South Blue

to keep out bacterial infections.

And considering the history of that region

I'd suspect that he was with an exploratory party.

Here it is.

The Briss Kingdom of the South Blue.

They launched the St. Briss as a scout ship, 208 years ago.

That's it!

That's the ship that fell on us.

Yeah, I recognize that figurehead out front.

It's probably sailed the seas above us unmanned

since the captain and crew died.

It's amazing what you can tell from looking at old bones!

I'm sure you've heard

that dead men tell no tales, right?

But everything aroud them does.

If this was a scouting party,

we should find evidence of that on the St. Briss.

Yeah. Except it's sinking like a stone.

What are you doing, you idiot?

You can't swim!

Help! Help me!

Heh. You won't believe it!

I did it!

I found the most incredible thing!

A map of the sky island?

It's called Skypiea?

That's right.

Then it's true.

There really is an island up there.

The island's real! The island's real!

The island's real!

It's a dream!

It's a dream! It's a dream!

Time to journey up to sky island!

Hold on, guys.

We don't know how to get there or if it's even possible.

Not to mention there are

a lot of fake treasure maps in circulation.

No, I mean. Sure, it's real.

It's gotta be because... Well, just 'cause.

But the fact is that map doesn't tell us how to find the place!

You're the navigator! Navigate something!

I can't just make things up!

That Nami is a vision

even when she's chewing someone's head off.