Pirate Crew

Dropped by Luffy's blow, Kuro climbs back up as his crew roots for him, yet he sneers that he plans to kill the lot of them, Jango as well, the instant his scheme wraps up. Off in the woods, Jango's attempt to hypnotize Kaya is broken when the Usopp Pirates jump him, the noise pulling Zoro and Usopp toward the action. After a fresh punch and a cutting taunt from Luffy, Kuro releases a move that drives him to lash out at everything near him with no distinction. On the color cover, the crew summits a mountain: Zoro takes in the scenery, Usopp sounds a conch, Luffy yodels, and Nami catches a goat munching her maps.

Along the shore, Kuro gets to his feet after one of his Cat Claws was snapped by Luffy. His crew cheers and shouts the real name he had forbidden them to use, and he snaps at them to be silent, since he already aims to erase the entire crew, Jango included, once the plan pays off. In the forest, Kaya keeps her eyes shut against Jango's hypnosis while the Usopp Pirates, faking sleep, hurl pepper into his face and kick him before slipping away with her. As Jango searches the trees, they ambush him again, and Zoro and Usopp trail the shouting toward the disturbance.

Back on the coast, Kuro reasons that a handful of deaths would lend his staged demise more weight, and that burying the name Kuro means every man aware he survived must perish. He lectures that a genuine crew amounts to nothing but pawns for the captain, obliged to follow orders whatever the cost. Luffy fires back that no number of men could let Kuro defeat Usopp, blaming the way Kuro thinks, and tells him he does not understand what a true pirate is. Provoked, Kuro drops into an odd stance that throws his own crew into a frenzy of pleading. On the Black Cat ship, Nami guards the treasure and watches as the crew is abruptly cut to ribbons, Luffy baffled by how quickly Kuro closed the distance, his fury rising and Nami stunned by the spectacle of a captain slaughtering his own.

Usopp and Zoro reach Jango out in the forest. Kuro starts cutting down his own Black Cat Pirates. When the chapter first ran in Weekly Shonen Jump, its opening two story pages appeared in full color. The chapter belongs to the Syrup Village Arc.