The Battle is Over! Koza Flies the White Flag

Crocodile makes plain that a huge explosive has been buried under the city. The Tsumegeri Guards rush in hoping to free Cobra, who begs them not to throw their lives away, yet they refuse to abandon their king. Their bodies have already begun to bruise and change, since each of them drank the forbidden Hero Water, a draught that floods the drinker with power but kills the host within roughly five minutes. Crocodile turns his body to sand to slip past their strikes and declines to bother fighting men who are already dying. One by one the guards collapse.

The Warlord's laughter at their deaths drives Chaka to attack. Taking on the form of a jackal granted by the cursed fruit he ate, Chaka cannot land a single blow against Crocodile's sand. Across the city the recovering pirates regroup, with Usopp weeping over a false claim that Luffy has died, a rumor Sanji refuses to believe. Vivi then reaches Koza and lays bare exactly what Crocodile has done.

Koza, in disbelief, sees the dead guards, the bloodied Chaka, and the king pinned to the palace wall, all the work of the man the country called its hero. Robin taunts him into understanding the truth, and Cobra pleads with him to save every civilian still within reach. Vivi catches up to Koza and argues that defusing the bomb alone will not stop the slaughter; only ending the uprising will. With the explosion roughly twenty-five minutes away, Koza reaches the Royal Army, raises a flag of surrender, and tells both sides the war is finished. A Baroque Works infiltrator disguised as a soldier then shoots him repeatedly, and Vivi screams in horror. Chaka, meanwhile, debuts his jackal transformation and the Narikiba technique.

The episode falls within the Arabasta Arc. It marks the first appearance of the Tsumegeri Guards and the debut of the jackal-model Inu Inu no Mi as a Devil Fruit power. It aired in English regions under the title Hook, Lie and Sinker.