The Key to Turning the Tide and a Great Escape! Doru Doru Ball!

Locked beneath Crocodile's casino, the captured pirates need an exit from their flooding cell. Chopper draws Crocodile away long enough for Sanji to reach the others, though escape turns out to be harder to seize than it looks. Smoker, caged alongside the crew, lets slip that the woman known as Miss All Sunday has drawn the World Government's pursuit for twenty years, carrying a bounty close to Crocodile's own seventy million.

Sanji thrashes a handful of Banana Gators trying to recover the cell key, only for Galdino, called Mr. 3, to erupt from one of the beasts holding it. Mr. 3 then flings the key in among three of the reptiles. The crew soon learns the twist that Crocodile had kept the real key on his person the entire time, while Usopp pieces together a scheme built on Mr. 3's wax abilities. When their captors finally return to the room, the cell stands empty. Luffy tells Zoro to pull Smoker out, and a grateful Smoker lets the pirates pass while the remaining Marines give chase.

The crew swears it will not stop running until Alubarna. Unlike the manga, the anime plays the escape out live as Crocodile reenters rather than replaying it afterward in flashback. Mr. 3's reaction to Sanji is exaggerated for laughs here, and an earlier continuity error about him floating in the flooded room is patched by showing him gripping the wreckage of the dining table. The chapter debuts Sanji's Anti-Manner Kick Course and Mr. 3's Doru Doru Ball. The entry sits within the Arabasta Arc.