Showdown at Alubarna

Riding the enormous crab toward the capital, the crew passes the tense hours in their own ways. Usopp spins another tall tale for a horrified Chopper, while Zoro builds strength by balancing Matsuge atop a blade. Sanji snaps at Nami that everyone needs a distraction from the thought of their captain facing a Warlord. When Sanji needles Zoro about being afraid Luffy may have lost, the two nearly come to blows until Nami flattens them both. Vivi reassures the group that Luffy is fine, and Nami christens the crab Hasami, urging it onward to Alubarna.

In Yuba, Toto at last strikes a spot gushing with water and beams, unaware of the storm Crocodile has sent his way.

Crocodile gloats that nothing will go Luffy's way, having driven his hook through the water flask and into the boy. Yet as the leaking water drips onto the Warlord's arm, the half-dead Luffy grabs hold and snaps it, stunning his foe before being hurled deep into the sinking sand. In Rainbase, Smoker sends Tashigi to Alubarna alone to pursue her own justice, then drives off. Across the desert the rebels gallop toward the capital, Koza warning a captured Cobra to watch his kingdom fall. Mr. 4 and Miss Merry Christmas hold the bloodied king elsewhere as he silently begs his people not to destroy themselves.

The chapter confirms Cobra's capture, Toto's discovery of water, and Luffy's survival despite sinking into the pit, his head bursting back out as he hollers about being hungry. The cover shows Karoo soaring on a falcon high above the Going Merry.