A Secret Strategy to Turn the Tables - Nightmare Luffy Appears

Brook, patched up after swallowing milk on his salt errand, declares himself ready to fight again. The salt matters, since purifying Oars and bringing down Moria before the sun rises is their single remaining chance, as Sanji stresses. Usopp engulfs the giant in flame with an Oil Star and a towering Firebird Star, yet Moria simply has Oars ignore it. The crew threads their attacks together, Zoro shearing a tower apart with the Great Buddha Slayer, Sanji booting the rubble at Oars, and Franky blasting debris, but the giant deflects and counters it all under Moria's direction.

The Kuwagata slingshot fires Franky at Oars for a point-blank shot, but the giant ducks and lays the cyborg out with a savage blow. Nami joins the fray and stuns Oars with a Thunderbolt Tempo, forcing him to his knees, until he answers with a Gum-Gum Whip that exposes his new ability to stretch like Luffy. Elsewhere the Risky Brothers of the Rolling Pirates trip Luffy up; they and the pink-haired Lola have spent three years stripped of their shadows. One after another they cram shadows into Luffy, whose skin pales to blue as his strength surges.

Scoring 9.3 and placing fifth, the episode marks Lola's debut. The Rolling Pirates mean to turn Moria's own power back on him, yet the shadow surge holds for only ten minutes, and with the mist clearing roughly twenty minutes stand between them and daybreak. Now Nightmare Luffy, hefting a giant sword and hungry for battle, he tears off in completely the wrong direction. Pandaman cameos among the shadows forced into his body.