Summary:
Sumo Inferno continues and the Queen sends the Gifters after Luffy defeats the Pleasures.
At the Oihagi Bridge, Zoro confronts Gyukimaru to get Shusui back. Their fight is interrupted when a woman and Toko arrive looking for help as they are being chased by an assassin known as Kamazo. Zoro then decides to fight the killer to protect the woman and the girl.
Big Mom goes to Udon, where she and Tama express their love for the red bean soup. Chopper is afraid that Big Mom will revert to her normal self if she finds out that there was no red bean soup.
However, the Queen enjoys several bowls of soup, showing that there was a lot of soup in Udon. Luffy continues to defeat the Pleasures with ease, so Queen decides to take out the Gifters. Luffy is pitted against Batman with advanced hearing, flying, and a bow and arrow, and Gazelleman with super speed. Despite this, Luffy defeats them fairly quickly with Haki strikes. Still, Luffy is disappointed that he couldn’t defeat them without touching them like Rayleigh.
On the bridge, Ringo, a sword thief identified as Gyukimaru, battles Zoro. He gets angry when Zoro states that he met Ryuma. Gyukimaru explains the meaning of Ryuma. Several nobles tried to take over the land of Wano in the past, but Ryuma was a formidable samurai who stopped them from doing so.
Their duel is interrupted by Komurasaki, who somehow survived Kyoshiro’s attack but is on the run from hitman Hitokiri Kamaz, the previously mentioned slasher in the news. Kamazo intends to kill Toko for laughing and Komurasaki for disrespecting the Shogun. Zoro helps Komurasaki in exchange for sake and food.
Zoro and Kamazo start to fight and the fight stops as they seem evenly matched. Zoro takes off his outer clothing, ready to fight harder.
The anime adds the following:
Batman and Gazelleman participate in Sumo Inferno and are easily defeated by Luffy.
Zoro’s fight with Kamaz is getting longer.
The flashback where Ryuma cuts off the dragon’s head was reused from Odo’s early work, Monsters.