Three Cooks

Luffy attempts to trim the work term Zeff sets for the damage he caused to the floating restaurant, but the old chef holds firm, even offering to settle the matter faster by taking one of the boy's legs. The crude exchange keeps boiling over into kicks. Across the kitchen, Patty botches his turn at greeting guests and rounds a corner to find Sanji gripping a bloodied Fullbody by the neck. When the Marine threatens to have the place closed down, Sanji concludes he can no longer let him live, and the rest of the cooks seize him just as Zeff and Luffy break through the ceiling overhead.

Zeff boots Fullbody outside, who scoffs that the chefs are no better than pirates. One of his men then reports a captive has broken loose after seven guards failed to contain him, a prisoner left starving for three days. That man, Gin, walks in, guns the Marine down, and props his feet on a table. Patty waits on him with mock politeness, then beats him senseless once Gin offers to pay in bullets, and Fullbody slips away amid the uproar. Outside, Sanji quietly carries the famished man a meal, which Gin calls the finest food he has ever tasted. Seeing this, Luffy decides Sanji will be his cook.

Patty and Gin make their debuts, Don Krieg gets a passing mention, and Luffy sets his sights on adding Sanji to the crew. The cover shows the Straw Hats devouring oversized apples as Zoro and Usopp strain to wring out the juice. The chapter also marks the first appearance of the recurring background gag character Pandaman, and its original Weekly Shonen Jump run printed the opening two story pages in full color.