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Zoro discovers unsettling truths as tensions rise in Ebisu Town. The community experiences strange effects linked to the SMILE fruits, challenging loyalties and stirring fierce emotions.

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As Ashura searches for Holdem for burning down his mountain base he comes across the broadcast of Yasuie before Kin'emon and Dogstorm arrive. Yasuie claims responsibility for Kin'emon's secret message, saying it was a prank, and casting doubt in the Rasetsu prison guards. As Yasuie accepts his fate it's revealed that he has changed the rendezvous point on the flyers so that the revolution will live on, before he meets a brutal end as Orochi and his men shoot him to death. As the Ebisu Town citizens "laugh" over Yasuie's death, Zoro is furious that they would do so after all he's done for them, but Hiyori explains to him that they were rob of showing any emotion except laughter because by the fruits known as SMILE.