Zoro and Usopp are taking the Mini-Merry out to sea to go hunt for some fish for Sanji to cook when they end up washing ashore on a mysterious island containing a large and menacing portal. Since they share a combined amount of two brain cells, they enter the portal, causing it to collapse behind them. They are now stuck somewhere, where they meet an unassuming slime.
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