Third Shift Musings - One Piece Episode #10

Klahadore and Jango the Hypnotist

It’s One Piece Monday! Let’s do this!

The episode begins with the strange man at the end of Episode 9 moonwalking into town. Yes, like Michael Jackson moonwalking, only not as stylish. He hears a noise and it turns out to be the farm animal you see above, looking at dude like he was on a strain none of us should touch.

Back at Kaya’s mansion, her guardian, Klahadore, makes it clear he wants the gang to leave expeditiously unless they have something to say. Of course, Luffy pipes up, telling Klahadore that he wants a ship. Dude says no QUICKLY and then proceeds to read Usopp for filth. He calls him “the son of a filthy pirate” and that sets Usopp OFF. He glides down from the tree he’s in like a boss and confronts Klahadore. The man just keeps talking while Usopp gets angrier. Before you know it, Usopp takes the term, “talk shit, get hit” literally, knocking that dude on his ass.

He lets that four-eyed punk know that he’s proud of his father and to be the son of a pirate. Klahadore keeps on talking though, telling Usopp that of course he would be violent cuz he’s a savage (sure Jan) and wouldn’t put it past him to try and steal Kaya’s money. Usopp grabs dude to give him another beatdown but Kaya tells him to stop. Klahadore tells Usopp to leave and never come back. Usopp says no problem and leaves, but his little friends call Klahadore a “stupid butt-ler jerk,” with Luffy joining in on the name calling. Klahadore tells them all to leave at once.

Poor Kaya is in her room crying when Klahadore comes in with her meal. She refuses and then proceeds to ask her guardian why he spoke to Usopp in such a harsh manner. Klahadore asks to sit and then tells her about the day he arrived at the mansion. Apparently, he used to work on a ship and was kicked off. Close to dying, he ended up in front of Kaya’s mansion and her father welcomed him in, gave him food, shelter and a job. Klahadore is just incredibly protective of her and would do anything to protect Kaya after the kindness shown to him by her parents. Well, damn.

Back in the town, the strange man is still moonwalking, and honestly, I need answers cuz it’s annoying. Fortunately, he meets Nami, Zoro and the Usopp crew. He tells them he’s a hypnotist and kids being kids, they want proof NOW. At first, the stranger is like, why would I show a bunch of strangers my skills, and then proceeds to show a bunch of strangers his skills. He tells the kids that they’ll feel sleepy after they hear, “One, two, Jango,” which they do but so does the hypnotist! The kids and the hypnotist are out for the count, snoring like they worked on the railroad all day.

Luffy finds Usopp sitting in his spot by the shore and they talk about Usopp’s dad. Before they can go too far into it, they spot Klahadore down on the beach with the weird hypnotist. Turns out, his name is Jango and he’s working with Klahadore! The butler wants Jango to hypnotize Kaya to rewrite her will before killing her! Turns out, KLAHADORE IS REALLY A PIRATE NAMED CAPTAIN KURO, MAN OF A THOUSAND PLANS!!! He set up a subordinate to be executed so that he could fake his death! What a POS!!

Usopp starts freaking out about what they heard but Luffy being Luffy, it doesn’t faze him. Instead, he blows their cover and yells for Kuro not to hurt Kaya. The way Usopp passes out had me on the floor!

Kuro gets Jango to hypnotize Luffy and Usopp so he tells them the same thing he told the kids. “At the count of ‘one, to, Jango’ you will get sleepy.” Usopp ducks for cover but Luffy stares at the device Jango is holding. Luffy (and Jango) go right to sleep and Luffy falls off the cliff headfirst! Jango tells Kuro he didn’t mean to kill the kid, but since he doesn’t know anything about Luffy’s Devil Fruit powers, we know Luffy is gonna rock their worlds. But poor Usopp has an even bigger problem. He’s been so busy crying wolf about pirates to the townspeople, will they believe him when he tries to warn them about the impending pirate attack? Stay tuned for next week’s post to find out.