Skipping episode 70's opening, they were greeted with the title card: "An Ancient Island! The Shadow Hiding in Little Garden!"
"Ancient island? Like how old?" Denki asked.
"Mayan? Victorian? Prehistoric?" Mina guessed.
"Victorian?" Ojiro raised an eyebrow.
Out at the blue sea, Luffy wondered if it's not going to snow anymore, which Zoro thought it would be impossible. Luffy reminded him that he slept through the first one. He asked Vivi about it.
Vivi said it could, but the sea they were first in is special since the seven magnetic forces from Reverse Mountain mess everything up, but they can't relax their attention though. It's honestly rare for this sea to be wild like the first journey, but it's true that it's more difficult than ordinary ones. Never underestimate this sea.
"You don't need to tell us twice." Mineta sighed, remembering how wild the weather got for the crew.
"Hopefully, Nami would be able to help them on that." Ochako said.
Sanji came out with his special drinks. The boys surrounded him, getting a glass.
Vivi watched as the boys were casually making conversation about fishing. Sanji was showing Karoo how to drink through a straw. They watched as Karoo went through drink after drink.
Vivi wanted to get angry until Nami hands her a drink and told her they'll work hard when it storms. While it's true, the princess feels like she's worked up over nothing, which Nami chalked up to being the ship's atmosphere.
"Don't worry. We know you want to go back to Alabasta quickly." Iida reassured.
As Karoo gotten dizzy from the drinks, Vivi felt like she could relax for now.
Soon, they saw a cute dolphin swimming in the sea, jumping in the air... A giant dolphin, in fact.
"Giant dolphins!" Toru excitedly shouted.
Once the dolphin landed back into the sea, it was like a switch has been flipped as the Straw Hats went back to work to ride the waves and try to shake the dolphin off their path.
Like that, they were able to ride the waves out of there.
"That's a surprisingly good strategy from him." Izuku said, quite impressed.
When they follow the direction of the Log Pose, they were able to see an island up ahead; one that's covered with fog. Their second island in the Grand Line.
"There seems to be some volcanoes." Iida said, a little worried.
On a completely different island, a man, Mr. 3, and a little girl were having a conversation. The braided girl was bored, but Mr. 3 told her to take advantage of the free time they have, and also, she should be saying his code name out in the public like that.
"...But your hair..." Denki started out.
"That's the joke." Jiro flatly said.
Mr. 3 asked about the paper she have been looking at for the past few days, and she claimed it's an order from the boss. Of course, he got angry about it.
With a look through the paper, Mr. 3 learned that Mr. 5 has been taken down, and he wished that it was Mr. 2 instead, which the girl claimed he would get a promotion. Mr. 3 just thought it wasn't that big of deal since Mr. 5 is just an 'idiot with devil fruit power' who got overconfident of his position. He believes that no matter how amazing the devil fruit power one gains, if he can't fully utilize it, his existence is a total waste.
He drank his entire cup of tea, then claimed that "superb criminals execute their crimes using their superb brains," so he wants to teach whoever beat Mr. 5 a lesson.
"You're not as terrifying as you think, dude." Denki said.
Back with the Straw Hats, they've entered the jungle of Little Garden, though Zoro is confused on the 'little' part. Nami felt like the place doesn't fit its cute name.
"I guess it would be little to that giant." Kirishima said.
Usopp was scared of the place while Vivi is more worried about what Miss All Sunday was saying about Little Garden. The sniper was fearful that a monster might appear.
He hoped that they can go to their next destination without going ashore on this one, but Nami reminded him that the Log can't be stored so quickly, and also they have to stock up on food soon too since they didn't get anything in the last town they were in.
Zoro pointed out a river mouth. Going down that path, the boys were talking about food and BBQ restaurants until Nami noticed something off about the plants; she've never seen anything like them, even in encyclopedias.
"Huh, I thought they looked kind of like typical tropical plants." Mina tilted her head in confusion.
Nami was frightened by a chaw, which Sanji thought was cute... which Usopp thought that was for him.
Nami wondered what was that. Sanji thought that was just a bird since this is a jungle, but a gigantic bird was approaching them. Nami and Usopp ran, leaving Sanji confused until he nearly dodged the creature.
"Wait, was that one of those... dinosaur birds?" Denki pointed out.
"I believe you mean 'archaeopteryx.'" Momo corrected him.
"Yeah, that! This island has dinosaurs!"
As some of the students became excited at the idea of seeing dinosaurs, Iida gaped, "But that can't be! They've died millions of years ago."
"Anime." Jiro answered as if that would be a satisfying answer to that.
As the bird fly away, Luffy wondered if that lizard tastes good, but soon, they heard an explosion from up ahead. Usopp thought a volcano erupted.
"That sounds like a bomb exploding to me." Sero said, which made Katsuki let out a low growl. He does not want to see Mr. 5 again.
After the eyecatches, a tiger appeared from the darkness, staring down the Going Merry, much to Nami and Usopp's fright.
"Holy shit, I'm pretty sure tigers aren't suppose to be that big!" Sato exclaimed.
Suddenly, the tiger spits out blood, collapsing to the ground, much to everyone's confusion. Why does a tiger, king of the jungle, fall covered in blood?
"I'm pretty sure it's the lion that's king of the jungle." Tokoyami corrected her on.
"Who cares? A tiger literally spit out blood!" Denki panicked in the moment.
Usopp nodded in agreement, saying that they're not going to stop on this island. Nami is certain they can quietly wait on the ship until the Log is stored and leave this island as soon as possible.
"I'm not sure if the whole crew can be as quiet as you want." Momo warily smiled.
They stopped by the shore, and Luffy ordered Sanji to make them a 'pirate lunch' with lots of meat and no veggies. He can smell adventure in the air.
"Luffy, you need to have a more balanced meal than that." Iida scolded him.
"How many times do we have to say this?" Ochako sighed, placing a hand on his shoulder.
When Nami asked where he is going, Luffy happily answered with 'adventure.' With that dopey grin on his face, Nami could tell she can't stop him as Usopp thought he was crazy.
Surprisingly enough, Vivi wants to join in, much to the cowardly duo's shock. Vivi believes that if she just sit around here, she may start thinking about all sorts of things, so it's probably best if she goes out until the Log is stored. Nami warned her it would be too dangerous for her.
"I mean, there's a giant and dinosaurs on this island." Izuku said.
"Never thought I would hear such a combination." Tokoyami commented on.
Vivi thought she'll be fine since Karoo will be there with her, which the bird is absolutely surprised by.
Before Sanji couls make a lunch of love for Viv, the princess asked if he could prepare something to drink for Karoo, which he agreed to.
Later, Sanji helped Luffy and Karoo pack up their things, allowing the three to adventure into the jungle. Nami and Usopp were surprised how brave Miss Wednesday is, though she did infiltrated an enemy organization.
Well, now Zoro's bored, so he'll go on a walk.
"If this doesn't spell out disaster, I don't know what will." Shoji said.
Before Zoro could leave, Sanji stopped to ask if he could bring back any edible animals. Zoro agreed, saying he'll get one the cook can't possibly capture. At that, so they'll make this a hunting match.
"Oh no, they're going to have a rivalry now?" Ochako said.
"Funny how this is the second rivalry between green hair and blond I've seen." Jiro lightly laughed.
"Who's the first?" Izuku and Katsuki asked at the same time.
They'll compete over how many kilos of meat they'll get, though Zoro believes he'll get tons.
As the two leave their separate ways, Usopp and Nami could only cry at the fact they're like this. Then they realized they're just sitting ducks, but Nami realized something.
She went inside to look through the books. Dodging some of the books, Usopp asked what she's doing, which is when Nami claimed that a book she've read before was about Little Garden.
In the jungle, Luffy, Karoo, and Vivi ran around until Luffy found something that looks like a shellfish that's like a squid. To Vivi, it looks like an ammonite.
"It is an ammonite!" Momo exclaimed, hand to her mouth. "But they should had died out 66 million years ago."
The three felt the area shake. Meanwhile, Sanji walked around until he could feel like someone's been following him for a while, though it could be his imagination.
"Holy shit, it's a T-Rex!" Denki shouted out of both excitement and fear for Sanji.
Sanji noticed the dinosaur when its drool landed on his head, though he didn't run away at the sight of it. Instead, he kicked it right in the neck.
"Oh my god, they're going to fight dinosaurs!" Kirishima happily exclaimed at the realization, eyes sparkling.
For Zoro, he was face to face with some three horned creature-
"Triceratops. It's a triceratops." Iida said with his hand up.
-and he wonders if it's edible.
Back with the cowardly duo, Nami found a book as Luffy, Karoo, and Vivi wondered why there's a Sea King on land, which Vivi horrifyingly claimed was a dinosaur.
"An apatosaurus!" Izuku grinned.
Vivi figured out that this is an ancient island, a land where it's stuck in the time of dinosaurs.
"...But shouldn't they be dead from the meteoroid?" Mina tilted her head in confusion.
Since there were no exchanges among islands in the Grand Line due to difficulties with sea travels, each one established its unique culture. There are islands that have an extremely sophisticated cultures and others that remain the same without progressing for several years. The random climate in the Grand Line makes it possible.
"I guess they do have an explanation." Jiro said.
"You know what? I'm just here for the dinosaurs now." Denki said.
Luffy suddenly slingshotted himself to the apatosaurus's neck, which made Vivi scold him.
"Oh, come on, it's not like the dinosaur could eat him." Toru said. "I'm pretty sure it can only eat greens."
"I mean, there are some herbivores that would eat meat." Iida said.
"I think I saw a video of a cow eating a chicken once." Tokoyami commented on, then he shivered.
As Nami was about to show Usopp the book she've found, Sanji was fighting with the T-Rex while Zoro was going to fight with the triceratops because they both used Santoryu.
There was a couple of surprised chuckles from the audience.
"Oh, Sanji's fighting the T-Rex because it doesn't use its arms!" Denki grinned as he've discovered something amazing.
Once Zoro slide Wado into its sheath, the triceratops fell.
Now, somewhere else in the jungle, a giant figure stomped through, a red aura surrounding him.
"Oh, we finally meet the giant." Katsuki said.
"Hm, he doesn't look like a caveman." Toru observed.
"What? Did you think humans back then were giants?" Jiro asked.
"I mean, maybe?"
"We have scientific evidence against that." Iida sighed.
"But is from the One Piece world?" Denki said.
Just as Nami and Usopp were about to discuss the book, the giant shadow appeared before them, much to their horror.
"It's a lot bigger than I thought." Momo said, frightened.
Before Mineta could say a word, he could feel Tsuyu's glare on him.
Nami dropped the book, which the author of the book have called this land "Little Garden" because that's what it is to its residents.
"To Be Continued."
"Residents." Izuku repeated. "That means there's more than one giant there."
"Well, this is going to be fun." Hizashi grinned.
After skipping episode 71's opening and recap, they were greeted with Nami and Usopp crying now that they're face to face with the giant shadow who has the strange laugh of "Gababababababababa!"
Jiro let out a surprised snort. "What was that?"
The title card came up, "Huge Duel! The Giants Dorry and Broggy!"
"Yes! Two giants!" Katsuki exclaimed.
The two were absolutely terrified as the giant asked for the answer. When Nami asked him to repeat the question, the giant claimed he asked if they have any alcohol. Usopp frantically nodded as Nami said that they do, or at least alcohol for cooking and disinfection. Still, she's willing to give all to him.
Suddenly, the giant screamed, which made the duo scream in terror. Turning around, it was revealed that a T-Rex was biting his back.
With a single swing of his ax, the giant decapitated the dinosaur.
With Koda letting out a frightened squeak, Kirishima let out a low, impressed whistle. "He's so strong."
Presenting the dinosaur head to the cowering duo, the giant introduced himself as Broggy, Elbaf's strongest warrior. Since he's got meat, he'll treat his guests, who were pretending to be dead.
As Kirishima wondered what would dinosaur meat taste like, Momo said, "This Broggy doesn't seem to be a bad person."
"Yeah, he's offering food." Denki said.
"Don't use Straw Hat's logic." Katsuki sighed.
From on top of the apatosaurus, Luffy had a great view of the place, seeing volcanoes and a mountain with huge holes in it. Vivi told him to get down from the dinosaur, but Luffy ignored her warning in favor of asking the apatosaurus for a ride. It just ignored him of course, eating some leaves.
"I don't think dinosaurs would be able to understand human speech, Luffy." Iida said.
"I think that's 99 percent of animals." Izuku sweatdropped.
Luffy sharply turned the dinosaur's neck, causing it to roar in pain. The noise caused the land to shake and summoned more dinosaurs, much larger ones.
"Oh no, did Luffy bullied the baby?" Toru said.
"Seeing how big they are, I think he did." Denki worried.
Though Luffy happily exclaimed at the dinosaurs around him, Vivi told him to get down already, but seeing how much taller they are, Luffy didn't listen and stretched to one of them.
As Luffy admired the view, the other dinosaurs tried to attack, but Luffy treated it more like some carnival ride, hopping around til he slide down the neck of one of the apatosaurus.
"It does look like fun." Kirishima's eyes sparkled.
"No." Iida firmly said.
"Oh come on, where are we going to get a bunch of dinosaurs?" Sero said.
Luffy's fun slide ride was over as he was sent flying in the air and stretched himself to a particularly scarred apatosaurus with the others try to take a bite out of him.
While Luffy does have a great view, Vivi could only stare as the scarred dinosaur flung into the air and into its mouth.
"Luffy!" Students were just as shock as Vivi.
In the apatosaurus's mouth, Luffy was confuse, then he was flung down the neck by the tongue.
Suddenly, a giant appeared, slicing off the dinosaur's neck and letting Luffy fly right into his hand.
As some of the other students gawk, Momo said, "I'm guessing that's Dorry."
The dinosaurs ran off as the giant let out a great laugh of "Geyayayaya!"
Jiro let out another surprised snort. "Another funny laugh?"
"I mean, there were others." Izuku said.
"Yeah, Arlong's went like… Shahahahaha!" Denki mimicked the fishman's laugh.
The giant claimed that he was watching him. Luffy's the first guest in a long time. Luffy could see he's so huge, asking if he's human.
The giant laughed, introducing himself as Dorry, Elbaf's strongest warrior.
"Wait, I thought that was Broggy's title." Mina said.
"I can smell another rivalry from here." Jiro said.
Karoo fainted from the sight of the giant as Vivi collapsed to her knees. She've heard of giants, but never seen them before.
Luffy introduced himself as a pirate, and before Vivi could leave with Karoo, Luffy soon introduced the two to Dorry.
Dorry was happy to invite them to his home.
"Well, at least the giants don't seem malicious." Iida said.
"Yet." Jiro said.
"I highly doubt they're the villains of the arc when we have the secret agents." Denki rolled his eyes.
After the eyecatches, Broggy was starting the fire to cook the meat as Nami and Usopp thought it was a bad idea to continue playing dead. Then Usopp saw the human skulls.
"Okay, I can see the reason why they don't trust him." Denki reconsidered.
Usopp was frightened at the idea of being eaten, so Nami decided they can't wait here any longer.
As Broggy happily sing about grilling dinosaur meat, the two sneaked away and then ran off into the jungle. They were glad they're not going to be in a giant's belly, then they saw a saber tooth tiger.
The two were being chased by the tiger until later when the three were being chased after by a T-Rex.
"You're just changing the stomach you'll be in." Katsuki heckled, earning a few chuckles.
The chase was stopped by Broggy, who licked his lips at the dinosaur.
The animals ran off as Nami and Usopp were frozen with fear, accepting their fate. Broggy was glad they're awake, so they can have meat and alcohol.
Now at Broggy's home, the two didn't want to eat the meat in fear that he's just going to fatten them up and then eat them.
"I'm pretty sure he's just going to eat the dinosaur meat." Toru said as Katsuki grumbled about saying a similar thing to Long Nose.
Nami wondered how long until the Log is stored so they could fast until then. She decided to ask that question to the giant, and he claimed it's one year.
"One year!?" The audience shouted.
"While this has been fun, I don't think I want them to stay here for a year." Izuku said. "There's so much you would get out of dinosaurs."
With Luffy, he and Dorry were having a great time, talking about food as Vivi and Karoo just watch. The two were terrified when the giant seemed to have a different tune about Luffy beating him up, but in actuality, Dorry thought he was funny.
Luffy asked why he's living here alone, is there a village around here?
Dorry claimed there's a warriors' village called Elbaf, though that's somewhere else in the Grand Line. In Elbaf, there are rules, like if they start a fight and both sides can't back off, they are judged by Elaf's god, and their god always give divine protection to the righteous one and lets the righteous one survive.
"Oh, we're going more into their religion." Iida said with a bit of interest.
The giant had caused a disturbance, and this island is currently the site for a duel between a certain man and himself, so the righteous one will win the duel, but they haven't been able to settle that for about 100 years.
"100 years?!" A couple of students shouted in surprise.
Luffy was shocked by a such a thing, and Dorry explained that a giant's life span is three times as long as a human's.
Vivi asked if there's any point in continuing to fight, especially one to the death, but the giant just laughed.
"To be fair, it does sound tiresome, especially after that long." Momo agreed with the princess.
In the jungle, Sanji was confident in his win, dragging around his dead dinosaur, with Zoro going the same. Then they met at the middle.
Seeing each other, they claimed their win and declared the other the loser.
"Oh no..." Jiro sighed, bowing her head.
The two put their dinosaur side by side. Sanji claimed his is longer, but Zoro was quick to remind him that it's about how much meat they could get since his is obviously bigger than Sanji's.
"Oh my..." Mina covered her mouth as her cheeks turned a bit more rosy in color.
"What?" Kirishima raised an eyebrow at this.
Sanji is certain Zoro's dinosaur is full of bones, and Zoro is certain Sanji's is filled with sinews. They decided to try to capture even bigger prey, and by the next volcano's eruption, their competition is over.
With Luffy and the others, they saw the eruption, and Dorry saw this as the time to go. With Nami, Usopp, and Broggy, they also saw the eruption, and Broggy abandoned his meat to the flames. Usopp could see how tensed the giant got.
"What's going on?" Toru asked the question hanging in their minds.
Broggy apologized for his leave. When Nami asked why, the giant explained that was a signal for the duel he've been in for 100 years, and when he asked for the reason, he doesn't remember.
"Then, why keep doing it?" Jiro asked in confusion.
It honestly became their routine before they realized it. To Vivi, she thought it was fueled bu hatred, wondering what caused it, but Luffy stopped her. To him, it's not 'hatred.'
To Dorry, it's because of their pride.
"Pride?" Ochako repeated as Kirishima's eyes seemed to sparkle.
The two giants clashed, sending shockwaves throughout the island; one that sent Luffy onto his back. He's amazed by such a huge duel.
Kirishima eagerly nodded in agreement.
Somewhere in the jungle, a T-Rex came across a cube house that was so hard it broke its teeth on it. A man told it that it's in their way.
"They're here too?!" Ochako shouted in surprise as Katsuki let out an annoyed groan at the sight of the duo. "I thought it was going yo be just Mr. 3 and that girl."
"I would prefer it to be that way." Katsuki narrowed his eyes as Izuku quietly wondered what that house is made of.
Just as the T-Rex ran after them, Miss Valentine used her 10, 000 Kilogram Press to beat the dinosaur, and the two entered the strange house.
In there, they were greeted by Mr. 3. Mr. 5 reminded him that this mission is their's. Miss Valentine is certain they'll never goof up again.
"Since you're faced up with the Straw Hats, I bet you will." Katsuki said.
"I'm sure they would be prepared for that." Izuku said. "Besides, they also have Mr. 3 and that girl, so it might change the playing field, especially with whatever substance Mr. 3 creates."
Mr. 3 casually called them weak, but he did showed them the bounty posters of the giants, thanking them for the opportunity to come to this island.
The two giants were known as Dorry the Blue Oni and Broggy the Red Oni of the Giant Warrior Pirates.
"They were pirates." Iida can't help but to frown at what the agents are planning for the giants.
Miss Valentine had heard of them in an old tale. In fact, this wanted poster is from 100 years ago. While that's true, Mr. 3 also mentions that they also live on this island, and their bounty back then was 100 million per head; 200 million for the two of them.
"That's more than twice Crocodile's!" Ochako's eyes widen.
"What did they do for that?" Tsuyu wondered.
Mr. 3 wants them to follow his instructions.
"To Be Continued."
"It's over already?" Denki sighed as Aizawa ejected the disk.
As the students picked themselves up, ready to spent the rest of the day on other things, Kirishima said, "I think I'm going to like this arc."
"Really?" Mina raised an eyebrow.
"I just like the giants, I guess." The redhead tried to think of an explanation. "They're just so... manly."
AN: I'm back from my little vacation. Sadly, I wasn't able to work on the fanfic much during that, but I was able to release this one now.
