Yubashiri

This katana held a place among the fifty Skillful Grade blades, and Zoro acquired it without paying a single Berry. The shopkeeper Ipponmatsu, who owned the finest blade in his Loguetown store as a family heirloom, handed it over after watching Zoro brave the curse of the Sandai Kitetsu. The weapon met its end when Shu corroded it, after which Zoro chose to lay what was left of it to rest at Thriller Bark.

Its handle was black and it carried a guard shaped like a cross, paired with a sheath finished in black lacquer. The steel itself looked unremarkable and bore a midareba, or irregular, temper pattern, and the sword was regarded as exceptionally light. Though largely dark in color, both the scabbard and the grip were traced with fine, slender gold ornamentation. That low weight was its standout quality, giving Zoro quick movement and reflexes while keeping enough sharpness to cut cleanly. Yubashiri proved strong enough to help slice a Sea Train carriage in two during Rashomon and durable enough to hold off Kaku's Zoan-boosted Rokushiki, succumbing at last only to the corrosion that Shu produced with his Sabi Sabi no Mi.

Zoro wielded Yubashiri as one of his three swords, most often pairing it with the Sandai Kitetsu when he fought in Two Sword Style. His first battle with it came at Whisky Peak, cutting down the Baroque Works agents posted there, and he carried it in his right hand from then on. On one occasion, when Sogeking became handcuffed to Zoro's right arm by a seastone cuff, Zoro improvised by having Sogeking grip the blade and act as the hilt, a maneuver he named Hana Arashi. The sword was finally ruined at Enies Lobby, rusted away by Shu on the Bridge of Hesitation, yet Zoro would not discard it and kept the stub sheathed at his waist out of respect. Once everything on Thriller Bark was settled, he left the fragments at the grave of the Rumbar Pirates and took up Shusui in its place, the blade passed to him by the swordsman zombie Ryuma.