The Screaming Speed Serve! Pirate Dodgeball!

Having taken the final leg of the three-coin contest, Luffy welcomes Chopper home, only to accept Foxy's demand for a rematch on the grounds that pirates allow no ties. Robin and Sanji wonder if he is angling to recruit a shipwright, while Nami and Usopp seethe and panic at the gamble. The first event is Hit and Dead Ball, a dodgeball variant where the side that loses all its players forfeits the round. Its long history has spawned a thicket of rules, though strict penalties and swapped referees force genuinely fair play.

Vastly outnumbered, Luffy and Chopper open with a double jump start, dodge the throwers, and peg Foxy in the face, which the rulebook counts as safe. Zoro and Sanji then knock out eighteen players, Luffy disqualifies ten more, and Big Pan blunders into eliminating Usopp along with twenty-two of his own teammates. Robin outs Hamburg, Sanji is conned out of the ball by some women, and Foxy wheels out the Dead Hit cannon, the lone weapon the rules permit. Zoro slices an incoming ball with his bare hands and is disqualified for it.

With only Luffy, Chopper, and Foxy left, Chopper's face block sends him out of bounds and out of play, while Porche shuffles the live ball among decoys. Luffy snatches the final throw with his mouth and swallows it, which the rulebook forbids, so he too is ruled out and the Foxy Pirates take the round. Rokuroshi and Gina debut here. The anime cuts Nami's earlier take-Foxy suggestion, and the episode quietly creates a plot hole by having Chopper down two Rumble Balls within minutes, a limit Oda later formalized.