Moonlight and Gravestones

Night settles over Whisky Peak as the welcome feast for the Straw Hats rolls on. Usopp spins tales for the crowd, Zoro and Nami drink everyone else under the table, Sanji charms a string of women, and Luffy devours portions meant for twenty. Mr. 9 and Miss Wednesday write to their superior that the pirates have been successfully drawn to the island. One by one the Straw Hats drop from exhaustion, Zoro collapsing before Nami does. When Mr. 8 steps outside, Mr. 9 and Miss Wednesday meet him, and he confirms the crew has walked into ruin.

The nun who matched Nami drink for drink emerges, revealing she had been downing barley tea, and as she sheds her robes, Miss Monday questions whether the party was even needed when they could have struck at the harbor. Mr. 8 silences her by displaying Luffy's wanted poster, stunning the agents. He orders them to bind every Straw Hat and strip the ship of treasure, insisting the pirates be kept alive to collect the full reward.

Zoro then calls down from a nearby rooftop, having slipped free. He declares that a real swordsman never lets drink master him and welcomes the hundred Baroque Works agents arrayed against him. The agents are stunned he knows their name, and Zoro reveals the organization once tried and failed to recruit him during his bounty hunter days. Mr. 8 orders him killed to protect their secrets and promises him a grave at Cactus Rock. Zoro vanishes in their moment of distraction, reappears in their midst, scatters several with quick strikes, and lodges his blade in Mr. 8's hair. Mr. 8 produces a saxophone that fires like a shotgun, but Zoro darts clear of the blast as agents fall. The four Frontier leaders, Miss Wednesday and Mr. 9 alongside Miss Monday and Mr. 8, resolve to handle Zoro themselves.

Miss Monday, partnered with Mr. 8, makes her debut. The crew is lured into a trap once the Whisky Peak residents stand revealed as members of the hidden group Baroque Works, an outfit that seems to consist of bounty hunters. Zoro recollects a past offer to enlist that he turned down.

Breaking free of the ambush, Zoro squares off against the agents and overwhelms many of them before the four senior officers resolve to confront him in person.

The cover is a color spread captioned It's funky, showing the Straw Hats lounging among secondhand furniture found in the woods, with Luffy drinking, Zoro asleep, Nami posing at a taped mirror, and Usopp painting, among his works a hitchhiking placard meant for Sanji to hold. The chapter is part of the Whisky Peak Arc.