The Fire Fist Strikes! The Power of the Mera Mera no Mi Returns

Doflamingo's severed head hits the floor as Kyros declares a decade of suffering over. When Buffalo tries to retaliate, Kyros holds him at swordpoint and vows to expose every lie the family told. Luffy, sulking that Doflamingo died before he could beat him, is spotted with Violet behind a window and grabs her under fire, set on rescuing Law. In the colosseum, the audience watches in alarm as toys revert into people and animals, and Diamante deduces Trebol must have left Sugar unguarded. Rebecca finally recalls her father, and Sabo, realizing the curse was the country's hidden rot, resolves to end the match by striking at its core.

Hardening his arms with Armament Haki, Sabo drives them into the ring and unleashes Dragon Claws Fists: Dragon's Breath, obliterating the arena and dropping the fighters onto floating rubble in the water. Watching from the stands, Koala takes a call from Hack and notes Sabo has gotten reckless again. As the water drains into the cracked foundation, Gatz orders an evacuation. Spotting the chest strapped to a Fighting Fish, Sabo leaps across the beasts and destroys it to claim the Mera Mera no Mi just as Diamante reveals the fruit was never going to be awarded. Sabo bites in, calls it disgusting, then sheds his disguise, summons fire to his fist, and fires off Hiken, blasting clear through the arena floor into the underground port.

Below, Trebol vows the dwarves will not escape, but Robin shields the fleeing group with a barrier of hands. Hajrudin then lifts the protesting, half-conscious Usopp before the freed toys, proclaiming him the hero who broke their spell as light pours through the collapsing ceiling and onlookers mistake him for a god. Coming to, Usopp orders them to destroy the factory so the rest of the little folk can be freed. The episode marks the first time post-timeskip incidental music overrides the eyecatcher theme, playing as Sabo unmasks. Sabo debuts Ryu no Ibuki.