Grand Duel! Zoro the Swordsman vs. Cabaji the Acrobat!

To keep Boodle from harming himself further, Luffy knocks the old man out cold. Buggy fires a Buggy Ball at the gathering, but Luffy bats the cannonball back with his rubber body, wiping out most of the pirate crew. Only Buggy survives, having hidden behind his own men, along with Cabaji, who used the lion Richie as cover. The acrobat steps up to fight on Buggy's behalf, and Zoro chooses to settle it as a duel.

Cabaji opens with dirty tactics aimed at Zoro's earlier stab wound and darts about on his unicycle, yet Zoro's Oni Giri cuts him down. With the swordsman dozing off on the ground, the bout narrows to Luffy against Buggy. Buggy splits his body to dodge attacks and manages to damage the straw hat, piercing it with knives, which only stokes Luffy's fury and draws out Buggy's bitter hatred for Shanks.

Luffy deflects Buggy's cannonball and decimates the crew. Zoro defeats Cabaji with Oni Giri after enduring the acrobat's underhanded strikes at his wound. Away from the fight, Nami slips into the pub, downs a patrolling guard, takes his key, and opens a chest holding a map of the Grand Line. Buggy damages and stabs Luffy's straw hat, and once Luffy explains the hat's significance, Buggy reveals the depth of his grudge against Shanks.

In the source manga Zoro reopens his own wound to prove his swordsmanship, while the adaptation has him deliberately let Cabaji cut it instead. The manga also has Cabaji abandon his unicycle to attack on foot once Zoro mocks his circus tricks, but the anime keeps him riding for the final assault. An extra scene of Nami stealing Buggy's treasure is added. Cabaji debuts here. The original airing rated 12.3, ranked first for its week; the remastered version rated 5.9.