Episode 504

"To Fulfill the Promise - Separate Departures!" is the 504th episode of the One Piece anime.

Short Summary
After the death of Sabo, Kuina and Zoro continue their training while the others discover the Revolutionaries' ship. Meanwhile, Dragon tells Ivankov that he has attracted too much attention and departs for Baltigo. At the Grey Terminal, the villagers begin to accumulate more junk. At the forest, Ace becomes more fond of Luffy as a brother when Luffy gets nearly mauled by a bear. After seven years of intensive training, Ace departs from the Goa Kingdom to the ocean and Dadan is emotionally distraught. Three more years pass and Luffy bids farewell to everyone as he departs on his journey to the Grand Line. Luffy encounters the Sea King that ate Shanks' arm again and uses the Gomu Gomu no Pistol technique to defeat him. In the present, Luffy is still upset that Ace has died and proclaims to Jinbei that he is too weak.

Long Summary
Ace starts to care for Luffy more as a brother after he was nearly mauled to death by a bear. Ace then sets off on his own seven years later, bidding the mountain bandits and Luffy farewell. Dogra comes by a few months later and shows Luffy a newspaper that talks about Ace and his new crew. Three years later, Luffy sets out from the Goa Kingdom. He then beats up the Lord of the Coast for eating Shanks' arm and to show the results of his forest training.

Present time: Luffy proclaims that he is weak in front of Jinbe, implying that he can't be the Pirate King like he wanted, considering that he wasn't able to protect Ace or his friends.

Anime Notes

 * Luffy defeating the Lord of the Coast is properly shown for the first time in the anime version in this episode.
 * Sabo appears to encourage Luffy to aim the center of the rock after he failed the first time while he practices his Gomu Gomu no Pistol. In the manga, Luffy breaks the rock on his first try.
 * In the scene where Dragon came back to the ship Ivankov pointed to something that Dragon seem to be carrying and wondered who was that. Fans believed that the person Dragon was carrying to the ship was Sabo and that he barely survived the Tenryuubito attack. This scene also appeared in the manga.