Kitetsu III and Yubashiri! Zoro's New Swords and the Woman Sergeant Major!

Smoker corners Luffy at the historic execution platform. Luffy swings at him, misses, and accidentally rockets himself high into the air and far from the scaffold. He lands among the Buggy Pirates, who are skulking around town in disguise hunting for him. Once they spot him, Luffy bolts straight back toward the platform.

Elsewhere, Tashigi puts Zoro to work scrubbing the Marine base as repayment for the glasses he shattered. Two other Marines recognize him as one of Luffy's crew, so Zoro attacks them, pockets their money, and escapes. He heads to a sword shop to buy a pair of replacements and runs into Tashigi again. Choosing the reputedly cursed Sandai Kitetsu, he tests his fortune by flinging the blade skyward and holding his arm in its path. The sword spins cleanly around his arm without a scratch. Struck by his nerve and luck, the shopkeeper hands over both the Sandai Kitetsu and the Yubashiri at no cost. Tashigi later returns to base and learns that Zoro assaulted two of her fellow Marines.

Smoker faces Luffy at the execution platform, and Luffy's botched attack flings him away into the disguised Buggy Pirates. Tashigi forces Zoro into janitorial labor over her broken glasses, but he is recognized and flees after robbing two Marines. At the sword shop, Zoro survives his luck test with the cursed Sandai Kitetsu, prompting the owner Ipponmatsu to gift him both that blade and the Yubashiri, replacing the swords Mihawk destroyed.

The shopkeeper Ipponmatsu and his daughter Ipponume make their first appearance here. In its English adaptation, 4Kids Entertainment fused this Japanese episode with part of episode 51 to assemble its own episode 41. The installment belongs to the Loguetown Arc.