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Chapter 739: Captain

Arc: Dressrosa · Saga: Dressrosa · Released:

Summary

In the underground trading port beneath the officer’s tower, the Tontatta dwarves discover that Trebol’s sticky “stick-stick” substance is flammable and blow his tower to pieces, freeing themselves to rescue their captured comrades and reach the palace. A terrified Usopp (“Usoland”) and Nico Robin are swept up in their assault. In a flashback, the one-legged toy soldier (whom the dwarves call “the Captain”) begs Rebecca not to enter the Coliseum tournament — calling the legend of the gladiator Kyros “a complete lie,” a despair dressed as hope — and she lashes back that he is “just a one-legged toy” who can never beat Doflamingo. In the present arena, Diamante batters Rebecca with his edge-less flexible blade while taunting her about her mother Scarlett’s death, until Bartolomeo intervenes. On the palace plateau the toy soldier fights Lao G (the dwarves swarming to help), with Pica’s rumblings shaking the city. Finally Leo reveals the Captain’s truth to Usopp: he was the FIRST person turned into a toy by Sugar ten years ago, but Sugar forgot to bind him with the memory-erasing “contract” — so alone among the toys he kept his will and has resisted the Donquixote Family ever since. His forgotten name, once known to all of Dressrosa: Kyros — the greatest gladiator in Coliseum history.

New reveals

• The one-legged toy soldier / “Thunder Soldier” / “the Captain” is Kyros, the legendary gladiator whose statue stands in the Corrida Coliseum (p. 19).
• Kyros was the first person in Dressrosa turned into a toy, by Sugar, ten years ago (p. 18).
• The toy-transformation normally puts victims under a “contract” as helpless laborers and erases them from everyone’s memory; Sugar forgot the contract on Kyros — “her first and only mistake” — so he alone retained his will and has fought the Donquixote Family for ten years (p. 18).
• Scarlett is Rebecca’s mother (deceased); the toy soldier “couldn’t save” her, and Diamante knows how she died (p. 15).
• The dwarves are the Tontatta tribe; their assault is “Operation S.O.P.” led by Leo (pp. 7, 17–18).
• Trebol’s sticky “stick-stick” is flammable; the dwarves ignite it and destroy the officer’s tower (pp. 6–7).
• Diamante fights with an edge-less, whip-flexible blade — “if you can’t cut a man… then you need to bleed!!” (pp. 13–14).
• Pica is named as the source of the city-shaking tremors (p. 16).

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

Mentions / appearances

• Characters (shown): Kyros (as the toy soldier / “the Captain”), Rebecca, Diamante, Trebol, Lao G, Leo, Usopp, Nico Robin, Bartolomeo
• Characters (named, not shown): Scarlett, Sugar, Pica, Doflamingo
• Cross-identity: Thunder Soldier = King Riku = Kyros (now confirmed the same person)
• Groups: Donquixote Pirates (the “Donquixote Family”), the Tontatta dwarves → Dwarves
• Locations: Dressrosa (officer’s tower, underground trading port, palace plateau), Corrida Colosseum
• Cover/title art: Brook, Laboon

Notable panels

• Page 1 — Title page (no cover-serial B-plot this chapter): reader-request art, “Brook skipping along drawing Laboon balloons,” by Dokuro from Kyoto.
• Pages 6–7 — The dwarves ignite Trebol’s flammable substance (“BOOM”), collapsing the officer’s tower.
• Page 10 — The toy soldier denounces the Kyros statue as “a complete lie,” “a personification of [the prisoners’] desire to be free” — dramatic irony: he IS Kyros.
• Page 11 — Rebecca, in tears: “You’re just a one-legged toy!!!! You know you can’t beat Doflamingo in a million years!!” — spoken to the man who was the greatest gladiator alive.
• Pages 13–14 — Diamante’s edge-less flexible blade scores a direct hit on Rebecca.
• Page 19 — The reveal splash: the toy soldier’s name, “Kyros!!!”, and “da gweatest gladiator in da history of da Coliseum!!!” — mirror-rhymes the Statue of Kyros first shown Ch. 704.

Open questions raised

• Who killed Scarlett, and what is the toy soldier’s true relationship to her and to Rebecca?
• Does the toy-curse’s memory-erasure have a limit, and can transformed toys be restored?
• Will the dwarves’ “Operation S.O.P.” and Kyros’s resistance actually reach Doflamingo?