Episode 921 trails the famed courtesan Komurasaki as she processes toward the palace while a foiled killing shadows her parade. The collapse of one besotted old man exposes just how coldly she fleeces the men who fall for her.
Decked in full oiran finery, Komurasaki drifts through the Flower Capital and freezes every onlooker with her beauty. The view shifts to Udon, where Caribou hauls himself toward a rock-breaking Luffy to plead for something to eat. The two share a past: they had met once at the Sabaody Archipelago, and Caribou went on to terrorize Fish-Man Island until Luffy put him down, only to resume his crimes throughout the New World before X Drake seized him and dumped him into Udon's labor camp. Elsewhere, the men Sanji had beaten report their defeat to Kyoshiro, who brushes it aside and resolves to telephone Queen so that killers can be loosed on the cook. Within the castle, Orochi at last shows his true shape, a serpent crowned with many heads.
Partway along the parade route, a cluster of men swears to cut Komurasaki down, but her guards slaughter them in an instant. Attention then settles on a single assailant, an elderly man named Bingo. He had given his heart to Komurasaki, who promised they could share a life if only he purchased her release from the pleasure house. To raise the sum, Bingo turned into a tightfisted lender, parted with his storehouse, deserted his wife, and even quit buying his own medicine. Sick and homeless, he finally scraped the fortune together, then learned she had blown it all on herself and never intended to marry him. Stripped bare, shamed, and shattered, he was then mobbed and savagely thrashed by a pack of cruel strangers.

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Once the story returns to the current day, Bingo and his fellow plotters are driven from the capital because they are destitute, and Komurasaki freely confesses that draining naive men of their fortunes is exactly her trade. The adaptation slips in Usopp and Franky trying to head off the three schemers, a flashback of Bingo parading his old wealth and crushing the poor, and footage drawn from the New World cover story named for Caribou's Kehihihihi. The trio's defeat unfolds differently from print: a guard charges them rather than felling them mid-rush, hitting Bungo first, then Bongo and Bingo, and striking Bongo several times over. The anime also fixes Bingo and Komurasaki's first meeting at about a year earlier, a detail the manga left open, and tempers his admission from selling his family to merely abandoning them. Stepping in for the first time are Takao, Sandayu, Bingo, Bongo, Bungo, Orochi, and Baburu, while the Yamata no Orochi model of the Hebi Hebi no Mi makes its first appearance.
Episode 921 identifies Komurasaki, a famed oiran of the Flower Capital, as Wano's most beautiful woman, showing her drawing crowds during a lavish procession.
Bingo, an elderly man infatuated with Komurasaki, drains his own fortune trying to buy her freedom from the pleasure house, only to learn she spent it all on herself with no intention of marrying him, leaving him shamed and beaten.
Luffy previously met Caribou at the Sabaody Archipelago and later defeated him on Fish-Man Island after Caribou terrorized it. Caribou now begs Luffy for food after X Drake dumped him in the Udon labor camp.
Episode 921 reveals that Kurozumi Orochi's true form is a many headed serpent, tied to his Hebi Hebi no Mi, Model: Yamata no Orochi.
After his men report their defeat to Sanji, Kyoshiro brushes off the loss and decides to call Queen so that killers can be sent after the cook.
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