A filler outing puts the crew to work healing Zunesha's torn leg, hurls a savage stormcloud against their effort, and ends with Nami charting a path toward Big Mom's seas as three minks quietly resolve to sail with Luffy.
His fleet shattered by Zunesha, Jack is gone, but minks and pirates alike realize the gash on the giant elephant's leg runs deep enough to fell it in time. The crew throws itself into repairing the harm, spreading the work across the entire island. Chopper collects a scarce healing herb, Usopp and Robin assemble a colossal bandage, and Franky rebuilds the boats Jack had wrecked so the rescuers can reach the wound.
Disaster looms as Zunesha strides into a Silent Supercell, a vicious stormcloud poised to fling the dangling vessels and the people clinging to the leg off into the air. The crew keeps every boat from plummeting. Once the danger passes, Luffy loads up provisions, and Pedro, Wanda, and Carrot each privately decide to travel alongside him toward the lands Big Mom controls.
Musatobi, a mink of the flying-squirrel sort, drifts down for a close look at the leg, then races back aghast at what he has seen. Franky, Usopp, and Shishilian discover the stored ships destroyed yet the launch pulleys still working, so Franky begins crafting new boats from logs felled by Zoro, Brook, and Kin'emon, whose Foxfire blade keeps setting trees alight until Raizo puts out the flames. Robin stitches white sheets into a huge bandage with her Devil Fruit, Law uses Shambles to drop a grumbling Zoro at the worksite, and Nami plots a route to Whole Cake Island that will take over a week.
When the storm arrives, howling winds swing the suspended craft toward the wound until Usopp softens a collision with a Pop Green and Luffy stretches to grab falling workers and steady the boats. Robin then anchors the pulley rig with her powers. Chopper smears the herb onto Zunesha's injury, and the minks finish wrapping it. Afterward, Carrot tries asking whether she may join the Sanji mission, but Luffy bolts off having recalled Pekoms, leaving her to gaze at the ocean and hand a few bananas to Bariete.

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Flagged as a filler installment, it greatly enlarges the wound-treatment plot beyond the manga's depiction. It introduces Musatobi and grants both Robin and Usopp techniques unique to the anime. Added scenes cover the herb gathering, the bandage making, the ship repairs, the storm complication, and Carrot's onscreen choice to set out, a beat left off the page in the source. The entry forms part of the Zou Arc.
Yes, this episode is flagged as a filler installment that greatly expands the wound treatment plot beyond what the manga depicted.
The Straw Hats spread out across Zou to heal Zunesha's torn leg, with Chopper gathering a healing herb, Usopp and Robin assembling a giant bandage, and Franky rebuilding wrecked boats so the crew can reach the wound.
A Silent Supercell, a violent stormcloud, threatens to fling the suspended boats and workers off Zunesha's leg, forcing the crew to scramble and keep every vessel from falling.
Musatobi is a flying squirrel mink who debuts in this episode, diving down to inspect Zunesha's wound up close before racing back in shock at what he finds.
Pedro, Wanda, and Carrot each privately decide to travel with Luffy toward the lands controlled by Big Mom to help rescue Sanji.
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