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Chapter 748: Repaying the Debt

Arc: Dressrosa · Saga: Dressrosa · Released: 2014-04-07

Summary

Luffy keeps mocking Pica’s incongruously high-pitched voice; the enraged supreme officer hurls an entire stone-fused district at the fleeing group, scattering Luffy, Zoro, the wounded Law and the colosseum survivors clear across Dressrosa to the square outside the coliseum (pages 2-6). There Cavendish menaces the “Worst Generation” for stealing his fame, returns Law’s spotted hat, and bickers with Luffy over who gets to bring down Doflamingo (pages 6-8). One after another, the colosseum’s strongest fighters arrive — Don Chin Jao’s Happo Army, Hajrudin of Elbaf, King Elizabello II and Dagama of Prodence, Abdullah & Jeet, Fleet Commodore Orlumbus, Blue Gilly, Suleiman and Ideo — each declaring he alone will take Doflamingo’s head to repay his debt to Luffy, “god Usopp,” or King Riku (pages 9-11). Sai reveals the Chin Jao Family’s true reason for coming: to destroy Doflamingo’s dark business (page 9). The ego-clashing captains nearly brawl until Luffy bellows them down, then the whole mob, riding the fighting bull Ucy, charges back toward Pica as one army — Elizabello throws a half-charged King Punch and Chin Jao drives a Hasshoken Drill Dragon Nail into Pica’s giant stone arm (pages 12-17).

New reveals

• The Chin Jao Family (“We originally came to this country to destroy Doflamingo’s dark business!!”) reveals its hidden reason for entering Dressrosa/the colosseum — distinct from Chin Jao’s old Garp grudge (page 9).
• A large bloc of independent colosseum captains spontaneously and simultaneously pledge to take Doflamingo’s head to repay their debt to Luffy / “god Usopp” / King Riku, coalescing into an improvised army that charges behind Luffy (pages 9-15).
• Chin Jao openly drops his three-generation grudge against the Monkey family: “Halt, grandson of Garp! …I have forgotten my grudge against your family!!” (page 9).

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

Mentions / appearances

• Characters: Luffy, Zoro, Trafalgar Law, Usopp (as “the great god Usopp”), Pica, Fujitora (“Issho”), Cavendish (“Cabbage”), Chin Jao (“Don Chin Jao”), Sai (Chief), Boo (Sub-chief), Hajrudin (Warrior of Elbaf), Elizabello II (King of Prodence), Dagama (the Tactician), Abdullah, Jeet, Orlumbus (Fleet Commodore), Blue Gilly (Long-Leg), Suleiman (Beheader), Ideo (Cannon of Destruction), Bartolomeo
• Mentioned only: Rebecca (bought Luffy lunch), King Riku (owed a debt), Doflamingo (target), Garp (Chin Jao’s grandfather-grudge), Oars (Pica “even bigger than Oars”)
• Devil Fruits: Ishi Ishi no Mi (Pica’s city-sized stone form)
• Groups / Locations: Chin Jao Family (Happo Army), Donquixote Pirates, Dressrosa (“square outside the coliseum,” “square outside the House of Toys”), Corrida Colosseum, Elbaf (mentioned by Hajrudin), Prodence (Elizabello’s kingdom)
• The fighting bull Ucy (the colosseum bull Luffy rode) reappears and carries the charging army.

Notable panels

• Page 1: Title splash — fan-request illustration “Heraclesun acting all cool on a horse” by Noda Skywalker (Heracles’n in knight armor on a rearing horse). Request art, not a continuing cover serial.
• Page 2: Luffy doubled over laughing at Pica’s high-pitched voice (“THAT VOICE IS KILLING ME!!!”); a recruit warns Pica is “super sensitive about his high-pitched voice.”
• Pages 3-4: Pica hurls a stone-fused stretch of city — “an entire TOWN comin’ for us!!!” — full-page HADOOOM impact.
• Page 6: Survivors regroup “square outside the coliseum”; Cavendish recognizes Zoro and Law; Pica “even bigger than Oars.”
• Page 7: Cavendish returns Law’s spotted hat (“isn’t this yours?”).
• Pages 9-11: The roll-call of pledging captains (Chin Jao/Sai/Boo, Hajrudin, Elizabello II/Dagama, Abdullah & Jeet, Orlumbus, Blue Gilly, Suleiman, Ideo).
• Page 12: Luffy reunites with the fighting bull Ucy (“MOOCY!! IT’S ME!!”).
• Pages 14-15: The whole gladiator host charges behind Luffy on the bull — “They’ve come back with a whole host of fierce fighters!!!”
• Pages 16-17: Elizabello II’s half-charged “King Punch” and Chin Jao’s “Hasshoken Secret Art — Drill Dragon Nail” strike Pica’s giant stone arm.
• Page 18: SBS Question Corner (Vol. 75) — Oda answering reader questions about Señor Pink. Bonus column, not story content; handed to the SBS specialist.

Open questions raised

• Will this improvised host of rival captains hold together as a single force, or fracture over their competing egos?
• Can the gladiators actually break through Pica’s city-sized stone body to reach Doflamingo?
• What exactly is Doflamingo’s “dark business” that drew the Chin Jao Family all the way to Dressrosa?