Episode 270 of One Piece reveals why the gatekeeper giants serve the Marines, ties their fate to Little Garden, and opens Luffy's first clash with Blueno as Sodom falls protecting the crew.
Stranded too far for the crew to retrieve him, Sogeking must find his own way back and wrestles with whether to flee. He finds the giant Oimo weeping and asks what is wrong. Oimo explains that he and Kashii once sailed in a pirate crew whose two captains stayed behind on Little Garden to settle a rivalry. Their crewmates sailed home without the captains, and when Oimo and Kashii returned fifty years later to fetch them, the World Government tricked them with a lie.
The giants were promised that a century of service at Enies Lobby would buy their captains' freedom and a return to Elbaph. Sogeking tells Oimo the truth: those captains, Dorry and Brogy, have been dueling on Little Garden for a hundred years, their contest still unsettled. Out in the fray, Sodom and Gomorrah rampage through the Marines until a cannon shot pierces Sodom's heart, dropping him; the crew manages to board Gomorrah before he collapses and keeps advancing. Atop the courthouse, Luffy demands Robin back as Blueno warns he is committing a grave offense against the world. Luffy throws the first punch, breaking through Blueno's Tekkai, seeing past his Soru, and landing a hit.

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This Enies Lobby Arc episode devotes much of its runtime to a Little Garden flashback that recontextualizes the giants' decades of loyalty. Luffy makes clear he has no interest in the World Government and wants only to reclaim Robin. The source's anime-notes section was left empty.
The World Government promised the giants Kashii and Oimo that a century of guard duty at Enies Lobby would buy their captains' freedom and let them return home to Elbaph.
Sogeking reveals to Oimo that the captains Dorry and Brogy have actually been dueling on Little Garden for a hundred years, their contest still unsettled, exposing the government's lie.
A Marine cannon shot pierces Sodom's heart and he collapses, though the crew manages to board Gomorrah before he falls and keeps advancing through Enies Lobby.
Atop the courthouse, Luffy demands Robin back, and when Blueno warns he is committing a grave offense, Luffy throws the first punch, breaking through Blueno's Tekkai and landing a hit.
The episode's flashback centers on Little Garden, recontextualizing the giants Kashii and Oimo's decades of loyal service to the Marines.
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