Exploding Santoryu! Zoro vs. Baroque Works!

The Billions scramble after Zoro vanishes, only for him to reappear among them and let their own crossfire thin the ranks. When Mr. 8 orders the crowd to gun down the lone swordsman, Zoro slips behind him, slides a blade through his hair, and asks whether one extra grave will satisfy. Hiding along walls between strikes, Zoro tests his new swords Yubashiri and Sandai Kitetsu, the latter lashing out on its own and convincing him the rumors of its curse are real. Inside the bar, Nami stirs, having only feigned drunkenness, and confirms that the welcoming town is a den of bounty hunters.

Zoro carves through wave after wave across the rooftops, slicing a hurled wine barrel into pieces that strike the gunmen behind him and dropping foes through a hole he cut in a roof. Miss Monday pins him with a ladder and lands her Superhuman Strength Fist, cracking the roof, but Zoro rises and lifts her by the head with one hand. Mr. 8 realizes the wanted posters misjudged him, and Mr. 9 explains that single-digit codenames mark the strongest agents. Mr. 9 attacks with his bats and Miss Wednesday counters with her perfume dance and Peacock Slasher, even calling on Karoo, yet Zoro overpowers them all, using the flat of his blade. When Miss Wednesday threatens the sleeping Luffy with a knife, Zoro maneuvers Mr. 9 into the line of fire and slashes Mr. 8 down. The Unluckies move to finish the fleeing Billions, but Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine intervene with their bombs.

The newcomers reveal their true target: not the fake king Mr. 9 but Miss Wednesday, the missing princess of Arabasta, and Mr. 8, now named as Igaram, captain of her royal guard, both marked for knowing Crocodile's secret. The anime has Nami only pretending to sleep, already aware of the hunters and after their treasure, while the manga keeps her asleep until later. Mr. 9's explanation of the Baroque Works hierarchy is an anime addition, and Miss Wednesday's striped outfit and weakening perfume differ from the hypnotic vertigo dance of the manga.