The Fated Reunion! Save the Captive Fish-Man

As the Straw Hats plan their assault on Duval's compound, the masked boss tells his Flying Fish Riders that he called off the earlier strike because he means to personally kill the man who ruined his life, thanking the Macro Pirates for unknowingly leading him to the Straw Hats. Their hostage Hatchan, the octopus Fish-Man who once served under Arlong, panics on overhearing this, dreading a reunion with the very crew that defeated him and certain they will abandon him once they learn his identity.

Caged and desperate, Hatchan douses himself in ink as a flimsy disguise and begs Camie to leave him. When Sanji asks after Arlong, he admits his old captain was captured while he slipped away to chase his dream of selling takoyaki, and Luffy instantly recognizes him. Zoro flatly tells Camie the octopus is no friend of theirs, and Luffy calls off the rescue, until Camie and Pappag leap overboard themselves and are snatched by the Macro Pirates. Seeing Hatchan thrash to save them, Nami relents and orders the crew to free him after all.

Luffy uses a Gum-Gum Pistol to grab Camie and Pappag, then springs off Hatchan's cage onto Duval's compound, surprising Macro with his Devil Fruit powers. Hatchan warns that the Flying Fish Riders' trap is already sprung, and on Duval's command the Riders surge up from the sea to encircle both the compound and the Thousand Sunny. The episode adapts material from chapters 492 and 493.