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Chapter 747: Supreme Officer Pica

Arc: Dressrosa · Saga: Dressrosa · Released: 2014-03-10

Summary

As Pica’s reshaping of Dressrosa connects the underground to the surface, a flood of people — civilians, soldiers, agents, and pirates who had been turned into toys and erased — pours out from beneath the Corrida Colosseum, weeping with rage at the years stolen from them. Naval HQ Vice Admiral Maynard reports the whole catastrophe to Bastille, who upbraids him for infiltrating the tournament; meanwhile, an undercover operative photographs the Underground Trading Port, where traders from the Kingdom of Biggscholts (and other nations) ship contraband disguised as pirate vessels (see Underworld). Fujitora, facing the citizens’ fury, refuses to use Absolute Justice to arrest Doflamingo and asks aloud whether the World Government “thinks itself to be God.” At the new royal palace on Flower Hill, Doflamingo’s officers (Trebol, Baby 5, Lao G) reel from Sugar’s defeat and the loss of the Flame-Flame Fruit to a Revolutionary; Doflamingo coldly recounts that he killed his father at ten and lost his mother at eight, naming his officers the only family he has — then Pica rises, a colossus revealed as the Donquixote Family’s “Supreme Officer,” comically undercut by a screechingly high voice he will kill anyone for mocking. Doflamingo casts the whole island as a king-making “election” pitting the people against each other. Across the city, Luffy (still cuffed to Law), Zoro, Nico Robin, Sabo, and Franky are hunted by the star-ranked crowd and the Donquixote officers (Machvise’s “Ten-Ton Vise,” Baby 5’s “Pistol High-Heel,” an inflate-and-burst officer); Sabo hangs back to cover the retreat as Fujitora’s gravity bats away the gunfire. Finally Pica merges fully with the bedrock and rises over the city as a stone giant — and, enraged that the crowd laughs at his voice, brings his power down toward “Straw Hat.”

New reveals

• Pica is a Donquixote Family “Supreme Officer” (top officer rank), captioned at his reveal splash; his enormous frame is undercut by a comically high-pitched voice he is murderously sensitive about (p. 8, pp. 18–19).
• Pica’s power is stone assimilation — he swims through the ground and merges with the island’s rock to become a colossal stone giant (pp. 14, 18–19). (The Devil Fruit is not named on-page this chapter.)
• Doflamingo’s backstory tease: “I killed my father when I was ten… I lost my mother when I was eight,” and he does not forgive those who laugh at his family; his officers are “family who have been with me through thick and thin” (p. 10).
• Doflamingo frames the manhunt as an “election to determine the king” — “The Rikus or the Don Quixotes? The people choose their king” — and means to “watch as the rest wipe each other out” (pp. 8–9). The citizens are hunting the alliance for star-rank bounties (Usopp a “five-star”; Luffy/Zoro/Law/Sabo “two-” and “three-stars”) (pp. 13, 15–16).
• The toy-slaves pour out from beneath the Coliseum as Pica’s land-shift joins the underground to the surface; “so many human beings enslaved like this without anyone ever knowing” (p. 2).
• Fujitora refuses to arrest Doflamingo despite the crowd’s rage, reads their cries as anger, not sorrow, and asks whether the World Government “thinks itself to be God?”; he deflects the citizens’ bullets with gravity to cover the alliance (pp. 4–5, 16).
• Maynard reports to Bastille after infiltrating the Coliseum and is dressed down for it (p. 3).
• Revolutionary intel on the Underground Trading Port: traders from the Kingdom of Biggscholts and other nations move contraband through Dressrosa disguised as pirate ships — “round up Doflamingo, and the entire world could be tipped on its head” (p. 3).
• Doflamingo’s officers remember Law as their “big brother” (“Big Brother Law?! I barely remember him!!”) — confirming Law’s years inside the family (p. 12).
• Doflamingo believes he has “negotiated” the navy (Fujitora) into standing down and plans to crush the alliance himself (pp. 7–8).

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

Mentions / appearances

Pica · Doflamingo · Trebol · Baby 5 · Buffalo · Lao G · Machvise · Trafalgar Law · Luffy · Zoro · Nico Robin · Sabo · Franky · Usopp (referenced, off-page) · Fujitora · Maynard · Bastille (named; not clearly shown) · Mihawk (cover) · Perona (cover) · Donquixote Pirates · Marines · Revolutionary Army · Straw Hat Pirates · Heart Pirates · Dwarves · SMILE · Birdcage · Underworld · Living Toys of Dressrosa · Mera Mera no Mi (referenced) · Dressrosa · Corrida Colosseum · the New Palace / “Flower Hill” (sub-location) · the Underground Trading Port (sub-location) · the Kingdom of Biggscholts (mentioned; VIZ spelling approximate)

Notable panels

• Page 1 — Title-page reader-request illustration: “Cute little cubs like Mihawk while Perona is jealous,” by Yonemi from Yokohama — Mihawk seated on a log with bear cubs (one in a Mihawk-style hat) and a jealous Perona. A request-corner art, not a cover-serial installment.
• Page 2 — The toy-slaves pour out from beneath the Coliseum; “I can see the sun again!!”
• Page 3 — Maynard reports to Bastille; an operative photographs the Underground Trading Port and tears up the fake pirate flags.
• Pages 4–5 — Fujitora before the raging crowd: “Does the World Government… think itself to be God?”; “My decision will stand, and that’s final.”
• Page 8 — Reveal splash: “Don Quixote Family Supreme Officer Pica,” immediately undercut — “His voice!! It’s so high-pitched!! How does that body make that voice?!”
• Page 10 — Doflamingo’s parents-backstory tease and “the officers… are family who have been with me through thick and thin.”
• Page 12 — An inflate-and-burst officer (unnamed) bursts; “Big Brother Law?! I barely remember him!!”
• Page 13 — The crowd IDs the alliance: “Trafalgar Law and the Pirate Hunter!! Straw Hat Luffy!!” — Law still cuffed to Luffy (“If these cuffs ever come off, I’m killing YOU first, Straw Hat”).
• Page 14 — Machvise drops “Ten-Ton Vise”; Baby 5’s “Pistol High-Heel”; Pica swims through the ground to seize a fleeing man.
• Page 16 — Fujitora deflects the citizens’ gunfire (“more bullets won’t get you any closer”); Sabo hangs back to cover the retreat.
• Pages 18–19 — Splash reveal: Pica rises over the city as a colossal stone giant (“A giant?! It’s… Pica!!”); the crowd laughs at his tiny voice, and he brings his power down — “Straw Hat…!!!” (Visual mirror: the near-full-page colossus silhouette — spiked head at top, citizens tiny at the base, DOOM-register SFX — re-keys the Oars/Moria villain-as-mountain DOOM-splash grammar; see Pica Stone-Colossus Splash Re-Keys The Oars Villain-As-Mountain Grammar.)
• Page 20 — SBS (Vol. 74) Battle Corner: confirms the masked gladiator “Ricky” = King Riku; introduces gag fan “Sawyer Wayback,” 56; explains “saburi / mackerel snap” as a sumo term (re Ch. 560). (SBS specialist: cross-link SBS Volume 74.)

Open questions raised

• How far does Pica’s stone power reach — can the alliance fight a man who has become the island?
• What really happened to Doflamingo’s parents, and why did he kill his father at ten?
• What was Law to the Donquixote Family, and why do the younger officers “barely remember” their “big brother”?
• Is Fujitora truly neutralized by Doflamingo’s “negotiation,” or is he running his own agenda against the World Government and the Warlord system?
• Will Franky reach and destroy the SMILE factory before the officers stop him?