Summary:
Luffy infects himself with the virus to gain the prisoners’ trust. This causes the prisoners to rebel against the guards and free Udon.
Babanuki’s men continue to fire Excite Bullets at the prisoners. Bullet wounds form black marks on the skull, spreading green spots all over the body. Affected prisoners suffer excruciating, searing pain, fever, and bleeding, eventually becoming emaciated and zombie-like. The infected also touch healthy prisoners and infect them as well. Babanuki called the chemical weapon the queen’s masterpiece, the mummy virus. The infected prisoners blame the Nine Red Sheaths as well as Luffy for putting them to the test by rebelling.
In response, Luffy hugs the infected prisoner and becomes infected with the virus himself. Luffy calls out the weak-minded prisoners for simply accepting abuse from the Beasts Pirates, then declares that he has a promise to fulfill: to make Wano Country a place where people will never starve again. He invites the prisoners to either join him and liberate the country, or continue their desperate lives under Kaidou’s regime.
Babanuki decides to try to kill all the prisoners at once with the Excite Shot, a cannonball containing two hundred doses of the Mummy virus. He puts it in his elephant trunk to fire, but Luffy walks up to him and ties the elephant in a knot. With the cannonball still inside, it explodes inside Babanuki’s body, knocking him down. With the last of his strength, Luffy orders his new followers to take out the vice warden. Following his orders, the prisoners turn and defeat Daifuga and Solitaire.
Eight days before the raid on Onigashima, Luffy achieved his first victory and freed Udon’s captive mine.
The anime adds the following:
Additional fight scenes against the Beasts Pirates.
When the prisoners riot, they are also shown the menacing Solitaire.
Prisoner kicking Daifuga in the face.