One Piece Vol. 5: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Once upon a time, Usopp was just a local boy with a talent for tall tales — the joker who woke his seaside village by shouting that pirates were coming. Then real pirates landed on the beach.

One Piece Vol. 5: For Whom the Bell Tolls picks up mid-siege, with Syrup Village under attack by the Black Cat Pirates and three would-be pirates standing between them and the townspeople: Nami the thief, Zoro the swordsman (rendered "Zolo" in this VIZ translation), and Luffy, the straw-hatted rubber-limbed captain who dreams of finding the world's greatest treasure.

The volume collects chapters 36 through 44. Luffy and Kuro fight to a finish, and Kuro's past as the pirate "Kuro of a Hundred Plans" comes out in the process. With Zoro's help Usopp reaches Kaya before Jango can, and afterwards chooses to keep the whole fight quiet, believing the village is better off never knowing. He disbands the Usopp Pirates, sets out to become a real pirate, and Kaya and her steward Merry send the crew off with a caravel of their own: the Going Merry.

The back half turns to open water. The crew heads for the floating restaurant Baratie near the entrance to the Grand Line, where a Marine lieutenant's cannon fire goes astray and Luffy's attempt to bat it away damages the restaurant.

The head chef, Zeff, sets him a term of work to pay off the debt, and the volume ends as Luffy meets the sous chef Sanji and decides he should be the crew's cook. Originally published in Japan in October 1998 as 誰が為に鐘は鳴る, the volume reached English readers from VIZ Media's Shonen Jump imprint in November 2004, rated Teen.