One Piece Episode 973 English Dubbed Episode Title: Boiled to Death! Oden's One-hour Struggle! Episode Description: Having been defeated by Kaido, Oden is captured and sentenced to be executed in the middle of the Flower Capital. Orochi and Kaido decides to boil him and his subordinates in hot oil, Oden proposes a challenge, that if one of them survives in the hot oil for one hour, the rest of them should be set free. Kaido agrees to the challenge, and Oden rushes into the boiling vessel of oil. He holds a plank up for the Akazaya Nine to sit on. The crowd watching the execution criticize Oden, but Shinobu reveals that Oden danced naked in the streets in order to save 100 people from being kidnapped with each dance. The kidnapped civilians were used as laborers to manufacture weapons, leaving the crowd shocked.