ARC 5 ARLONG PARK (EP 31 - 44)
ep 31 - 36 : ussop , johnny and zoro arrive on arlong park , zoro gets captured , fishmen chase johnny and ussop , johnny manages to hide , ussop escapes with the help of a resident named nojiko , she takes him to her home and it is revealed that she is nami's adopted sister.

nojiko:

arlong:

meanwhile , zoro is taken by arlong , he tries to escape but is tied , he sees that nami works for arlong

meanwhile , sanji , luffy and yokasu encounter a sea beast on the way to arlong park , luffy defeats him and makes him take the boat to arlong park. after hearing the news of invaders being found arlong goes to the village.

ussop stops arlong from killing a resident named genzo for possessing a weapon by shooting him with his slingshot , this angers arlong who is stopped by his brethren from rampaging more .

we see nami visit a grave on the top of a cliff , and states her intention to raise 100million berry(this is the currency in one piece) to buy the village back.

genzo:

zoro clears the base of enemies and meet one of the crew members named hatchan , an octopus fishmen
who gives him a ride to the village believing him to be a visitor.

After returning , arlong sees his brethren fallen and is informed that the captured person was the pirate hunter zoro.

ussop gets taken by arlong , due to suspicion on nami , she is to prove her loyalty by killing ussop, she stabs with a knife and throws him into the water. johnny witnesses it all and goes to tell the others about her betraying them.

nami confronts luffy and the crew, clarifying allegiance to arlong and says them to leave , luffy does not
leave , he simply chooses to sleep on the ground there .

ussop is revealed to be alive , nami stabbed her back of the hand to save him .

arlong decimates a marine ship and then summons a corrupt marine to steal all the stolen cash from nami to prevent her from buying her village back.

(for ep 35,36 pls js watch it as the backstory is too emotional and just a few words wont be enough)

bellmere and young nami:

ep 37-45 : the corrupt marine stole nami's money and she realises it was arlong who did it. after attempting to fight back , the marine shoots nojiko in the back.

after confronting Arlong , he argues that he did not break any terms of his promise by sending Nezumi after Nami's treasure.

nami gets to know that the townspeople knew her reason to join arlong , and then they march towards arlong park , knowing that they are not strong enough to defeat arlong, nami repeatedly stabs her tattoo which was a symbol of her being in arlong's crew , luffy comes and stop her hand , she finally requests
luffy to help her , luffy puts his hat on nami and goes towards arlong park with the entire crew.

(recommended to see this scene , this is one of the most important point in story that solidifies one piece as a peak show)

the scene:



the crew breaks into 1v1 fights with the arlong pirates after luffy breaks down the door and defeats most of the arlong pirates.

sanji battles kurobi , zoro chooses hatchan , ussop angers chew

chew chases ussop out of the base where due to pure skill and spam of his rubberband of doom , putting chew on fire and ussop hammer , ussop wins

due to the move luffy uses , his legs are stuck in the ground and arlong throws luffy underwater , genzo and nojiko try to help luffy by jumping in and taking him out of the water but due to the rock also stuck with him , they only take out the head of luffy. sanji also tries to help but kurobi being a fishmen has greater strength underwater , even due to that sanji takes him up by blowing air into his lungs while they are underwater . out of the water , sanji has the upper head where he defeats him.

luffy is successfully taken out of water , zoro then battles arlong, and when arlong sees his scar from the battle with mihawk , he is shocked to see how he is alive after a fight with mihawk.

luffy mocks arlong's fish like feature , angering him , after a few moves , arlong retrieves his sword which is saw like and has tooth shaped blade , he slams luffy inside the building, into the room where arlong forced nami to make maps for her , he notices a pen covered in blood, luffy is angered and breaks his sword's blade with his hands and destroys the room before declaring nami as his navigator.

arlong bits luffy and then luffy destroys the whole building by one extended stomp onto arlong's back while he was getting bitten.



luffy wins in then end and after their wounds are treated , nami changes her tattoo on the shoulder to a pinwheel representing genzo's hat and a tangerine for bellmere , she does not say goodbye to all the townspeople but instead runs through the crowd and jumps onto the ship , revealing she had pickpocketed them while she ran through them.