Nami is finally beaten by Arlong and realizes that he’s never going to set her free nor free her town from his control. She breaks down and asks Luffy for help. The crew springs into action, as does the town. It turns out that the hunters, Johnny and Yosaku, never fully left the island. They bar the villages from needlessly throwing their lives away urge them to wait for the crew before attacking the fish-men. Sanji and Zolo arrive first and take on two of Arlong’s men while Usopp kind of runs away but still has to take on one of Arlong’s officers anyway. Luffy initially enters the fray but is sidelined by being captured thrown into the ocean.
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The final fight between Shishitoren and Furin begins, and Umemiya sees right through Toriyama's façade. He breaks down what Toriyama has been hiding behind as the Top for Shishitoren, trying to prioritize having fun and being free instead of building up those below him and truly making his organization powerful. After the fighting is over, Umemiya calls for a celebration back at the diner, and wants to talk with Sakura to dissect his fight and who Sakura is. Sakura tells Umemiya his plans to become the Top of Furin and attests that he had no plan of trusting anyone, but Umemiya says Sakura's actions since arriving bely that intention.
After an encounter with the Lunatic Magician, the party recovers in the care of a group of orcs. In another part of the dungeon, another party is revived and tries to figure out why all of their food is gone but none of their money. One member, Kabru, thinks it might have something to do with Laios. They dodge some body snatchers who were sent to retrieve their dead corpses, then join another group, led by Shuro, who is seeking out Falin. Back with our adventuring group on Level 5, they've decided to go back to the surface and report what they’ve seen to the Lord of the Island, and perhaps come back a little more prepared to take on the Lunatic Magician. But, the dungeon is moving, which is making getting back to the surface near impossible.
Nami continues to be torn between Arlong’s crew, her love for her village, and the fleeting loyalty she still has for Luffy and his crew. In another epic flashback, we see Nami as a child with her stepsister and their adoptive mother, who was once a pirate soldier who rescued the two young babies and decided to raise them on the island. Bellemére didn’t have much for them and scraped by as a tangerine farmer until the fateful day when Arlong’s fish-men crew raided the town and demanded a toll for every person in it. Arlong discovered young Nami’s gift for drawing maps, and she enters a fool’s deal with the pirate to buy her village from him while drawing navigational maps in his service.
Illustrated by Chris Wildgoose, colored by Msassyk and Diana Sousa, lettered by Simon Bowland
The world is dying - scarce farmland is being fought over by orcs and a desolated human population, but now the two sworn enemy races find themselves in a tentative alliance against a more violent foe - the Vangol. In an effort to ally the races, Tara, a promising young healer and cousin to one of the most powerful orc overlords, is stationed with the human warrior Callum Battlechild and his group known as “The Last Men”. Their mission is to discover how the Vangol are finding their way so far in from the shores where they land, but to also secure the shrinking farmlands from further violence. 
In a remote part of the world, Son Goku is living his life alone after his grandpa, Son Gohan, has passed away. One day, he gets a visit from the beautiful genius Bulma who has crafted a device to detect the legendary Dragon Balls which, once collected, will grant her a wish from the Dragon god, and her radar is telling her Goku is in possession of one! She manages to recruit Goku to be her bodyguard as she collects the rest of the Dragon Balls. The two set off and encounter episodic adventures and meet a colorful cast of characters. Then, Goku begins training under the legendary Turtle master, Muten Rōshi, where he first has a rivalry with fellow trainee Kuririn that buds into a friendship as the two compete in the Strongest Under The Heavens martial arts tournament.
The fight with Shishitoren continues with everyone taking on their opponents one at a time. As Sakura takes on Togame, Shishitoren’s second-in-command, we get a little bit of insight into how the childlike Toriyama rose to the top of Shishitoren and the toll it took on Togame for them to get there. Sakura also jabs at Shishitoren for preying upon the weak, and that’s how Togame finally figures out why Furin members were on their turf to begin with. Then, it’s finally time for the firsts to square off in the main event: Toriyama versus Furin’s Umemiya.
While the adventurers have finally reached Level 5 where the Red Dragon has been dwelling, Namari and her party reach the surface and resolve the tasks of their party. Namari's benefactor report to the Lord of the Island, and we learn some background about the dungeon and some hints as to who might be the creator of the dungeon. Back inside, Marcille, Laios, and Senshi hatch a plan to take on the Red Dragon. Initially, Chilchuck wants nothing to do with it, but he gets sucked into the planning phase and agrees to help. Then, it's time to find out if Falin can be revived, and someone in the party has been harboring a secret that will help, but terrifies the rest.
Sanji finally agrees to come with Luffy, which is great for many reasons: many volumes ago, Nami made off with the Merry Go, so they’ll have to take Sanji’s boat to track her down. Luffy already sent Usopp, an injured Zolo, and one of the pirate hunters after her, so the second pirate hunter, Sanji, and Luffy are on their tail now. But Nami may be going into a Lion’s Den. She had expressed interest in a great reward on a dangerous pirate, a Captain of the Fish-Men named Arlong. His brute strength makes Don Krieg look weak, and he has a crew of mutant fish-men with special abilities and strengths under his command. Nami’s treachery may run a bit deeper than everyone originally thought as Usopp uncovers her family home in a small village on the same island as the Arlong pirate compound.
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