Chapter 733: What the Soldier Wants

Arc: Dressrosa · Saga: Dressrosa · Released: —

Summary

The Corrida Colosseum’s Block D battle royale nears its end: Orlumbus of the Yonta Maria Fleet whips down the beast-gladiator Agyo, while Suleiman the Beheader and the crowd turn on Rebecca for being King Riku’s granddaughter — she fights on only to return to “Soldier.” Beneath Dressrosa, in the shadow trading port, Usopp (“Usoland”) and a corps of Tontatta dwarves launch Operation S.O.P., navigating the mapped underground toward the Officer’s Tower to knock out Sugar; their captain, the Thunder Soldier, has already broken off to strike Doflamingo at the palace. The Thunder Soldier seizes the inter-level lift, felling guards effortlessly, while Rebecca’s flashbacks reveal his quiet self-identification as her clumsy “father” and his cause: reclaim Dressrosa for the Riku Dynasty and build a peaceful country where “my child” can be happy. The chapter ends on a shock — in a single instant an unseen attacker drops every surviving fighter in Block D.

New reveals

• Block D climax — Orlumbus (caption: “Adventurer (Commodore of the Yonta Maria Fleet) Orlumbus”) defeats Agyo the Fighting Lion with his whip; block down to ~30 survivors (p. 5–6).
• Block D odds: Cavendish the favorite; Mummy the Sorceror and Damask the Arsonist as dark horses (p. 6).
• Suleiman caption: “Dias Naval Battle / Class A War Criminal / Suleiman the Beheader” — a feared underworld killer “driven from his home for being a war criminal,” who “killed them all for [his] homeland” (p. 3–4).
• A shadow trading port lies beneath Dressrosa; Usopp (“Usoland”) leads a Tontatta dwarf force in Operation S.O.P. to reach Sugar at the Officer’s Tower (p. 7–8).
• Underground geography mapped: Lift, Tunnel, Factory (the SMILE factory floor), central drawbridges, and the sea-urchin-shaped Officer’s Tower (Trebol + Sugar) (p. 8).
• The Thunder Soldier is the dwarves’ captain; he has split off to strike Doflamingo at the palace once the operation succeeds (p. 7).
• The Thunder Soldier seizes the lift connecting the Palace, House of Toys, and Trading Port (p. 12–13).
• The toy soldier’s cause, stated on-page: “I’m taking Dressrosa back for the Riku Dynasty!! …I want a peaceful country where my child can live in happiness!!” and, in thought to Rebecca, “your poor, clumsy father” (p. 17).
• Straw Hat dwarf-codenames in play: Usopp = “Usoland” (p. 7, 11), Robin = “Robiland” (p. 11), Franky = “Fraland” (Franky is fighting Senor Pink off-page at the east door) (p. 12).
• Cliffhanger: all surviving Block D fighters dropped in a single instant by an unseen attacker (p. 18–19).

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Mentions / appearances

• Characters (shown): Rebecca, Thunder Soldier, Suleiman, Orlumbus, Cavendish, Mummy (Block D odds art, p. 6), Damask (Block D odds art, p. 6), Usopp, Nico Robin (full-size, goggles up, p. 9; codenamed “Robiland,” p. 11), Rampo (Tontatta dwarf, p. 9), Agyo the Fighting Lion (defeated, p. 5)
• Characters (named / referenced, not shown in-scene): Trebol (map marker), Sugar (operation target / map portrait), Senor Pink (off-page fight), Franky (“Fraland,” off-page), King Riku (named), Doflamingo (target)
• Groups / crews: Straw Hat Pirates, Donquixote Pirates, Yonta Maria Fleet (Orlumbus’s), the Tontatta dwarves (Dwarves)
• Locations: Corrida Colosseum (Block D), Dressrosa (shadow trading port, House of Toys, Officer’s Tower, Factory, the lift)
• Other: Mera Mera no Mi (the tournament prize), SMILE (the underground factory)

Notable panels

• p. 1–2 — Two-page chapter title spread: “Chapter 733: What the Soldier Wants.” A snowbound winter scene of the full (timeskip) Straw Hat crew (~9 figures) building snowmen with small fox/squirrel creatures: clearest IDs are Luffy (grinning, hugging the snowman, p. 1), Usopp (afro, top-left p. 1), Nami (umbrella, p. 1), Brook (crown + afro, p. 2), Chopper (rolling a snowball, p. 2) and Franky (seated, p. 2); Zoro, Sanji and Robin round out the nine (individual grayscale IDs approximate). Decorative splash (not a foreshadowing color-spread).
• p. 4 — Suleiman’s full caption: “Dias Naval Battle / Class A War Criminal / Suleiman the Beheader.”
• p. 5 — Orlumbus’s caption: “Adventurer (Commodore of the Yonta Maria Fleet) Orlumbus.”
• p. 8 — Tontatta map of the Dressrosa underground (Lift / Tunnel / Factory / central drawbridges / Officer’s Tower with Trebol and Sugar icons).
• p. 17 — The toy soldier names his cause: reclaim Dressrosa for the Riku Dynasty, for “my child.”
• p. 18–19 — Block D wiped out in an instant — cliffhanger.
• p. 20 — SBS Question Corner insert (Vol 73 SBS): Cavendish’s birthday given as 8/31; a reader asks about the “deep reason” behind the toy soldier carrying little Tontatta figures of the Straw Hats (ref. Ch 731).
• p. 21 — Spillover capture: the title page of Chapter 734 (“The Slicing Winds of Rommel,” request cover). NOT part of Chapter 733.

Open questions raised

• Who or what felled all of Block D in a single instant — and who is the figure “rising to their feet”?
• Is the Thunder Soldier literally Rebecca’s father? (On-page he thinks of himself as her “father,” but his name/history are withheld.)
• Will Operation S.O.P. reach Sugar at the Officer’s Tower, and what exactly is the operation meant to undo?
• What is the toy soldier’s prior connection to King Riku and the lost Riku Dynasty?