Showing Off His Techniques! Zoro's Formidable One-Sword Style!

Sanji tells the G-5 men not to worry over Tashigi, since he never raises a hand against a woman and Zoro will shield her while the search for the children continues. Zoro complains that Tashigi keeps getting underfoot, but she stands her ground, pointing to their old Loguetown clash and his refusal to strike a woman, and so she demands the bout with Monet for herself. Zoro sits down and hands her the fight, which leaves Monet cocky enough to bury Tashigi under a storm of snow attacks.

Monet bites down on Tashigi's shoulder, and Tashigi endures it, aware that pulling free would cost her the arm. As Monet moves in to finish her, Zoro slices the harpy's cheek with Armament Haki, forcing her to let go. Conceding that certain things he would sooner leave whole, he then asks whether she has ever encountered a wild beast that vows never to bite. The dawning understanding that he intends to attack freezes Monet in terror. Zoro cuts her in two without Haki, so her Logia form survives, yet she is far too shaken to pull herself together. When one half rises to stab his back, Tashigi cuts in and ends the snow harpy for good. Throughout, Luffy barely grips a slender ledge and hauls himself up, the unconscious Momonosuke carried along.

Adapting Chapter 687, the episode draws a strong rating near 8.8. Several visual errors accompany the cut, among them mistakes in the way Monet's two halves fall and a sword that disappears then reappears at Tashigi's side. New scenes feature Monet asking after Smoker, Usopp wandering into a room of jarred animals, Brook and Kin'emon finding more kidnapped children, Luffy's climb out of the dump, and Tashigi collapsing once the battle ends.