The Time is Ticking Down! Seize the Ope Ope no Mi!

In the present, the captain inflates and hardens his arms to snap the cords pinning him, unwilling to wait while Law is endangered overhead. Thirteen years prior, Doflamingo telephones the runaways and urges their return, dangling a cure: a fruit named the Ope Ope no Mi, sold cheaply to the Marines by pirates blind to its value. He wants his trusted brother to swallow it and heal the boy. Corazon, though, sees the snare, telling Law they will never go back, since eating a second Devil Fruit is lethal and Doflamingo secretly hungers for immortality bought with someone else's life.

Corazon phones Sengoku and confirms the deal, learning the exchange sits three weeks off at Rubeck Island. He arranges to join the crew at Swallow Island beforehand, gifting the admiral a chance to ambush them, and promises a full roster of his brother's underworld ties. When the boy's fever spikes and he passes out, Corazon tearfully pleads with him to last a few more weeks. He warns that snatching the fruit will turn the navy, the government, and Doflamingo alike into hunters, so Law must brace for a fight to live, while Law recounts how the authorities doomed Flevance over its Amber Lead.

This Dressrosa Arc installment debuts Diez Barrels, Minion Island, and Rosinante's Calm. At the island, Corazon scopes the lair of the ex-officer Barrels, whose son X Drake fetches drink as the captain boasts of the five-billion-Berry prize. Muffling himself with the Nagi Nagi no Mi, Corazon snuffs the lights, kicks Barrels down, grabs the fruit, and flees, tossing a grenade behind him. Overjoyed his charge will be saved, he slips on the snow into a knot of pirates who recognize and shoot him. The adaptation adds the captain hardening his arms, Law's blurring vision, a spilled cup of water, and a shortened preview to fit an Episode of Sabo tease.