Anger Explosion! Kuro vs. Luffy! How it Ends!

Kuro lunges at Luffy once more with his Shakushi technique, yet the rubber pirate grabs hold and pins him so he cannot budge. Stretching his neck far back, Luffy lands Gomu Gomu no Kane, a crushing headbutt that knocks the captain senseless and breaks his glasses. With the fight over, Luffy orders the surviving Black Cat Pirates to clear off the Gecko Islands and to take Kuro along with them.

At that same moment, Zoro and Usopp arrive to shield Kaya from Jango. The swordsman slices through a tree branch to open a lane, and Usopp follows with his Hissatsu: Kayaku Boshi. The launched pellet detonates against Jango's face and finishes him off. Not wanting the village to hail him as a hero, Usopp asks the children to stay quiet about what he did. Afterward he tells the children of his wish to leave the village and become a true pirate, dissolving his little crew and urging each of them to chase a separate dream. Grateful for the rescue, Kaya hands the Straw Hats a full-sized caravel that Merry designed, the Going Merry, which the crew gladly accepts before inviting Usopp aboard as a lasting member.

On the coast, Merry recounts Usopp's past to Kaya. In boyhood, Usopp watched his father Yasopp depart with Shanks to chase the pirate life, leaving behind the boy and his wife, who soon died of sickness. Lonely, Usopp turned into the town's liar, hoping his stories would come true and bring his father home, and in the present the children take up that role with a warning of a coming pirate invasion. The episode marks Banchina's debut as well as the technique debuts of Usopp's Kayaku Boshi and Luffy's Gomu Gomu no Kane, treats a few early attacks as filler, and belongs to the Syrup Village storyline.