## One Piece Chapter 229, pages 5-6: Let's Eat - Chapter: 229 - Pages: 5-6 - Characters: Mont Blanc Cricket, Usopp, Luffy, Nami, Chopper, Zoro ### Summary Page 5: Cricket warns them, "Now this is the crucial part. Let me warn you beforehand, That you'll have to risk your lives." Usopp and Luffy, looking battered and exhausted, reply, "WE'RE ALREADY HALF-DEAD..." Cricket reveals the method: "'Knock-up Stream.' If you can ride that, it'll take you to the sky, understand?" Nami is shocked, "What...!? You mean the stream that knocks ships up into the air!?" Luffy imagines their ship riding a massive geyser into the clouds and laughs, "Oh, so all we have to do is get ourselves blasted up into the clouds! Hahaha! By a sea current? YAHOO!" Nami looks concerned, remembering something. "But I heard that's how ships come crashing down from the sky... At Mocktown..." 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..."