## One Piece Chapter 255: The Python and the Explore Team - Chapter: 255 - Pages: 0-18 - Characters: Wapol, young boy, Luffy, Zoro, Nico Robin, Chopper, Giant snake, Usopp, Nami, Sanji, Gan Fall, Pierre, Skypieans, Enel's priests ### Summary Page 0: The title page for Chapter 255, titled "THE PYTHON AND THE EXPLORE TEAM". The cover story is "WAPOL'S SNACK Vol. 17 'THE SCIENTISTS FOUND THE SECRET OF HIS MAJESTY'S TOY!'". Wapol, wearing a lab coat and a helmet with a mechanical magnifying glass attachment, kneels on the floor examining a small, round toy soldier with a handheld magnifying glass. A young boy in a baseball cap and dotted shorts stands nearby, watching him with an open mouth. The room looks like a workshop or laboratory, with a cabinet, a microscope on the floor, and various tools and bottles on shelves in the background. Page 1: In the dense forest of Upper Yard, Luffy yells at the top of his lungs, "WEST IS THIS WAY!!!" with his mouth wide open, pointing forward. Behind him, Zoro is walking away in the opposite direction. Robin points out calmly, "...Would you please tell them that we're going south, which is this way?" Chopper angrily yells at Zoro, "YOU DUMB ASS!!!" Zoro turns back, annoyed and sweating, and argues, "Oi, Luffy! Do you ever listen to other people? She said it's the 'skull's right eye,' so it's to the right. That's this way!" Robin sighs, resting her chin on her hand, "*Sigh* You are such an idiot with no sense of direction." A wooden signpost nearby clearly points in the direction Zoro is heading, labeled "EAST". Unbothered, Luffy happily marches forward, holding a large stick over his shoulder, singing, "LA LA LA~~ HNMHNM~~~ HNM~~~♪" He smiles and says, "Oooh, so we are going south? Why didn't you say so earlier?" Zoro yells from off-panel, "BI SHI!!" Page 2: Chopper looks at Luffy's stick with sparkling eyes and a wide, excited mouth, exclaiming, "Luffy, that's a nice stick!!!" Luffy laughs, "Nhahahaha! I think so, too, but I can't give it to you. Go find one yourself." Chopper replies, "Oh... okay~~~" and starts looking around the ground, muttering "Stick, stick." Zoro, sweating slightly, asks, "What about a stick?" As the group walks through the dense, root-filled forest, Zoro remarks, "Nothing came at us when we went into the forest yesterday. Didn't meet a priest, either.." Luffy says, "It's a bit depressing actually." Chopper laughs, "Yup! Hahahaha." Zoro looks back at Chopper and says, "Eh~~~~, Chopper, you're brave today." Chopper explains, "I was worried that the forest would be a very dangerous place, but now I think it is really nothing to worry about. I feel a lot safer with these guys." Robin walks behind them, smiling gently as she thinks, "...What a strange group!" Zoro adds, "Do they really want something to happen that badly?" Page 3: A massive, terrifying giant snake suddenly looms behind the group in the forest. The snake has dark stripes, long fangs, and a huge open mouth, hissing loudly with sound effects "TSS RARA RARA...". The sheer scale of the snake completely dwarfs Luffy, Zoro, Robin, and Chopper, who are standing on the giant roots below, unaware of the danger right behind them. The snake's long, forked tongue flicks out as it approaches them, accompanied by ominous rustling sounds "BA GI BA GI BA JI..." and "PA GI PAH GI". The snake's thick, scaled body coils through the trees, sliding forward with a "SU SU..." sound. Page 4: Back on the Going Merry, sailing along the Milky Road. Usopp stands confidently on the deck, declaring, "The wind is perfect!! The direction is perfect!! Ar~~~this is great. Our cruise is going nicely. Although it is a bit slow... Oi, navigator! Speed us up." Nami, sitting nearby, replies calmly, "There's nothing we can do, 'Captain' Usopp. The current of the milky road is too rough, so we can only rely on the dial boat to push us along." Sanji stands near the railing and shouts, "Alright!! Go Karasu-maru!!" as the small dial boat pushes the Merry from behind. Nami adds, "By the way, Sanji, you need to be my bodyguard. This forest is too creepy." Sanji instantly swoons, doing a little dance, "Shut up. I am a bodyguard exclusively to Nami-san." Nami then turns her attention to Gan Fall, who is resting on the deck. "Hey, it's time for the strange knight to get some medicine. Where did Chopper say he put it in?" Gan Fall corrects her, "My name would be Gan Fall. It's Gan Fall." Nami remembers, "Oh, the medicine is in the cupboard beside the refrigerator." Page 5: Gan Fall sits up on the deck of the Going Merry, looking serious. He says, "Please allow me to tell you... a little bit of the history... of this country... The 'God' of this island... I was... until six years ago..." Usopp's jaw drops in shock, his eyes wide. Sanji, smoking a cigarette, looks at Gan Fall skeptically and asks, "Did you fall on your head, old man?" Gan Fall continues his story, "...The first appearance of this Upper Yard in Skypiea was... like you sa...