Zoro rejects the offer and refuses to be freed from his bindings since he plans on surviving just to spite Helmeppo. When he leaves, Luffy goes up to Zoro and asks him to join the crew. He eats one of Rika's rice balls and says it's disgusting, since she used sugar instead of salt, and he stomps on them and has her thrown out. She offers some rice balls to Zoro that she made herself, putting her whole heart into it.Īt that moment, the snobbish Helmeppo, son of Captain Morgan, arrives with several Marine soldiers. As the two look at Zoro a little girl named Rika climbs over the wall with a ladder. Luffy and Koby then arrive at the Marine base, where Koby thinks it will be his goodbye, as he plans on enrolling in the Marines, but Luffy climbs over the wall and spots Zoro tied to a cross. Luffy and Koby walk through the town, and at the mention of the names of both Roronoa Zoro and Captain Morgan, the townspeople are thrown into a panic. The boat then arrives at an island, where a large Marine base is stationed. The episode opens with Luffy and Koby aboard their boat, and Koby once again explains how Roronoa Zoro is a demon who takes down men just for the bounty. Luffy then infiltrates the base looking for Zoro’s sword, but finds three, and returns outside just in time to save Koby and Zoro from being shot by Morgan’s men.

Rika tells Luffy that the reason why Zoro is tied up is because he stood up for her and her mother and that all three would be spared if he could survive without food for a month, a promise that Helmeppo had no intent of keeping. A little girl trespasses onto the field to offer him a rice ball when Helmeppo, the son of the Marine base's Captain Morgan, demonstrates the fear and power that his father’s name gives him. Luffy and Koby find Zoro tied up and starving.

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