The dwarf soldiers storm Sugar, who spots the disguised Tatababasco instantly and turns her attackers into toys. Robin baits Trebol away with a clone that dissolves on contact, and his fury sends a whole ship smashing into the tower.
Inside the factory, an overseer whips the abducted dwarves into raising the strange fruit, insisting only a SMILE can cure their ailing princess and faking grief to keep them docile. Just beyond the Officer Tower, Robin halts Leo, warning that rushing Sugar while Trebol stands guard would be suicide, since the slime user had just struck a fly clean between the eyes. To pull Trebol off, Bian sows chaos at the port with pink hornets while a disguised Robin reports that unruly pirates insist on discussing payment with an executive.
Trebol departs to handle it, posting extra guards on his way out. The dwarves ring Sugar and demand their enslaved kin be freed, but she plays dumb and flings away the Tatababasco grape once she sees through the ruse. As they scramble to pry her mouth open, she changes several into toy bears bound by contract to obey her, while the rest forget those companions ever existed. Sugar then orders the new toys to wipe out everyone in the tower and warns Trebol it is a trap. Realizing Robin fooled him with a clone that simply melted away, Trebol grasps that the Straw Hats are hunting Sugar and hurls a captured ship straight into the structure.
The factory's abuse of the dwarves, sustained by lies about their sick princess, is laid out in detail. Robin stops Leo's reckless charge and runs a decoy to draw Trebol from the tower. Sugar sees through the Tatababasco trick and turns the rushing dwarves into toys, scrubbing them from their allies' memories. Spotting Robin's dissolving clone, Trebol works out the plot aimed at Sugar and slams a seized ship into the Officer Tower.

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In the adaptation, Zoro's one-on-one bout with Pica plays out at greater length. On the page, Leo's group rushed Sugar the moment Trebol left, whereas this version first lets Leo succeed in slipping the Tatababasco into her basket, after which she picks it up and tosses it aside rather than eating it. The episode sits in the Dressrosa Arc and introduces the SMILE Factory setting along with the characters Chao and Ibusu.
In the factory, an overseer whips the abducted dwarves into raising the Tatababasco fruit, falsely claiming that only a SMILE fruit can cure their ailing princess. The lie is used to keep them docile and compliant.
Robin disguises herself and reports that unruly pirates want to discuss payment with an executive, while Bian creates chaos at the port with pink hornets. This pulls Trebol away from guarding Sugar.
Sugar recognizes the disguised Tatababasco fruit as soon as the dwarves approach and flings it away before they can force it into her mouth. She then turns the attacking dwarves into toys instead.
Sugar changes several of the charging dwarves into toy bears bound by contract to obey her, and the rest of their companions forget these dwarves ever existed. She then orders the new toys to attack everyone in the tower.
Realizing that Robin's clone simply melted away and that the Straw Hats are hunting Sugar, Trebol grows furious. He hurls a captured ship straight into the Officer Tower.
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