Caesar Goes Missing! The Pirate Alliance Makes a Sortie

As most of the crew sleeps, a huge sea creature surfaces bearing Breed, whose pack of Sea Lapahns assaults the Thousand Sunny. The defenders fight back until Breed calls off the swarm and reveals himself atop the ship, having snatched Caesar. Luffy's counterattack is blocked by a Kung Fu Dugong wielding an Armament Haki fist, and Breed slips away with his prize. Law's attempt to lock him down with Room is foiled when the Lapahns rock the vessel, and the crew spots an island-sized ship flying a Jolly Roger that resembles Breed.

Luffy, Law, and Chopper take the Shark Submerge III in pursuit. Chopper notes the Sea Lapahns resemble the Lapahns of Drum Island, his old home, and Law needles him as a tanuki. Boarding the enormous ship, the trio battles Lapahns, an Octopus Boxer, and other sea beasts, and the Dugong from before returns, only to recognize Luffy as the foe who once beat him in Arabasta and embrace him in delight.

Caged with Seastone cuffs, Caesar begs Breed to free him so he can reach Doflamingo, but Breed mocks him as worthless and reveals he serves no one, intending to build a kingdom of pets with Caesar's help. When the scientist refuses, Breed turns his Peto Peto no Mi on him. The Dugong, leader of the Sea Animal Pirates, explains that Breed enslaved his crew in the New World. Breed then collars Chopper, forces him into Monster Point, and uses the rampage as cover to leash Luffy and Law as well.

This is the first episode of the filler Caesar Retrieval Arc and the last to air in 2013. Breed's Peto Peto no Mi lets him manipulate living things, and Luffy mistakenly reads its sticky-sounding name as a slime power, a wink that foreshadows Trebol's Beta Beta no Mi. The reunited Kung Fu Dugong becomes the second animal shown using Haki after Alpacacino, and Law nicknames Chopper Tanuki-ya, blending the running tanuki joke with his habit of adding the suffix to names.