CompleteAlabasta Saga
Reverse Mountain Arc
The crew sails up Reverse Mountain's waterway into the Grand Line after navigating strong currents and avoiding rocks with Luffy's help. Inside a whale the crew faces rising stomach acid from the creature bashing its head against the Red Line. Crocus sedates the whale then leaps toward Mr. 9 and Miss Wednesday after they fire at the stomach wall.
Ch. 101Ch. 103Chapters in the Reverse Mountain Arc
5 chapters- 101Reverse MountainLuffy panics when the lighthouse goes out but Nami assures the crew she can navigate toward Reverse Mountain on the Red Line.
- 102At Last, Grand LineChapter 102: "AT LAST, GRAND LINE".
- 103WhaleInside the whale's stomach Sanji and Usopp confront the old man on the small island who calmly identifies himself as Crocus the lighthouse keeper of Twin Capes.
- 104A Promise on the CapeInside the massive whale’s stomach, a vast cavernous space filled with water stretches out, a small island with a palm tree and a lighthouse visible in the distance.
- 105Log PoseBelow it is the subtitle "COBY AND HELMEPPO'S DIARY OF THEIR HARSH STRUGGLES VOL.19 'MORGAN ALONE'".
Key events
2 chapters citedNami guides the Going Merry through a storm into the Calm Belt where Sea Kings appear but a giant frog Sea King sneezes and returns the ship to the current. The crew realizes the current will carry them up the mountain yet the rudder breaks and the ship heads for rocks until Luffy inflates to bounce them into the waterway. They hold on as the ship races upward and then descends toward the Grand Line. Ch. 101
Sanji and Usopp meet Crocus inside the whale while the creature thrashes and raises stomach acid levels. Luffy crashes through a door and sends everyone plummeting toward the acid until Crocus operates a winch to sedate the whale. Mr. 9 and Miss Wednesday then free themselves and fire bazookas at the wall so Crocus leaps toward them. Ch. 103
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