## One Piece Chapter 229, pages 6-7: Let's Eat - Chapter: 229 - Pages: 6-7 - Characters: Mont Blanc Cricket, Nami, Usopp, Luffy, Chopper ### Summary Page 6: Cricket confirms Nami's fear, "Normally, yes. The key point here is timing. Of course, it sounds simple when I say you'll be 'riding the stream,' But it sure as hell ain't gonna be a picnic, that's for sure." A dramatic panel shows a massive, violent upward stream of water destroying a ship. Cricket describes it: "After all, the knock-up stream is... A NATURAL CALAMITY. An event one normally wishes to desperately avoid." Nami asks, "Just how does a stream even travel up into the air anyways? I've never even heard of such a thing until recently..." Cricket explains, "Even the workings behind that monster of a stream, Aren't beyond the realms of logic. Though of course, there isn't anyone dumb enough to go and confirm the facts..." Page 7: Cricket explains the mechanics of the Knock-up Stream with diagrams. "But the main theory goes like this. Deep below the ocean floor, there's a large cave, To which low-temperature water flows inside. The steam pressure caused by the intense geothermal heat builds and builds up, Until a limit is reached and it comes exploding out." He continues, "An explosion of such scale that it knocks up a volume of water so large as to make it look like an ocean current heading straight up into the sky. For about a minute, the ocean water continues to jet up into the sky." Nami is stunned, "The water shoots for a full minute...? Just how big is this explosion!?" Cricket adds, "The explosion locations change everytime, But it happens around 5 times a month." Usopp panics, "So we're gonna get blasted to bits...?"