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Chapter 749: Onward, Gallery of Rogues!!

Arc: Dressrosa · Saga: Dressrosa · Released:

Summary

The Colosseum fighters and Luffy throw themselves at Pica’s city-sized stone giant, racing to reach Doflamingo at the royal plateau. Chinjao’s drillhead, Orlumbus’s Destruction Cannon, Cavendish’s Swan Lake and Hajrudin’s Grizzly Magnum all fail to stop the regenerating stone. Riding the fighting bull “Moocy” up Pica’s back with bounty hunters Abdullah and Jeet, Luffy learns two things: Pica’s hulking form conceals an absurdly high-pitched soprano voice, and the giant’s real human body is embedded within the stone — the only point worth striking. As the fighters fight to lift Luffy to the plateau, Law catches up and tells Luffy the truth behind the alliance: thirteen years ago Doflamingo murdered the man Law loved — Corazon, once a supreme officer of the Donquixote Family and Doflamingo’s own younger brother. Law wants to take Doflamingo down himself.

New reveals

• Pica’s voice is a tiny high-pitched soprano — wildly mismatched with his monstrous stone body; instantly mocked, a running gag (p. 15).
• Breaking Pica’s stone limbs is futile — “The arm you broke will come back!! …you’re just wasting strength!!!” They regenerate from the bedrock (p. 6).
• Pica’s real human body is embedded inside the stone giant — “Luffy, I think his head is just plain stone right now!! …There’s his real body, right there!!!”; “First time he’s shown us somethin’ that looks human” (p. 12).
• Pica draws a giant katana out of the stone (p. 13).
• Law’s revenge motive: thirteen years ago Doflamingo murdered Corazon — once a supreme officer in the Donquixote Family (“one of Mingo’s pals”) — who was Doflamingo’s younger brother and who “gave me my life” (pp. 16–17).
• Law confirms the alliance plan was “designed to crush Doflamingo in a longer, more roundabout way” — but the truth is his stake is personal, and he means to take Doflamingo down himself (p. 16).

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

(None resolve on-page this chapter. The Grand-Fleet seed continues — the pledged fighters now fight Pica as a coordinated unit to lift Luffy to the plateau — but its explicit fleet payoff is still forward.)

Mentions / appearances

• Appears: Luffy, Trafalgar Law, Pica (stone giant; brief glimpse of his human body), Cavendish, Bartolomeo, Hajrudin, Ideo, Orlumbus, Abdullah, Jeet, Chin Jao; the Fighting Bull “Ucy”/“Moocy” (mount).
• Mentioned, not shown: Doflamingo (target at the palace; Law’s quarry), Corazon (named by Law — Doflamingo’s murdered younger brother).
• Locations: Dressrosa (the royal/King’s plateau climb).
• Fruits / techniques: Ishi Ishi no Mi (Pica); Hajrudin’s “Grizzly Magnum”; Cavendish’s “Blade of Beauty — Swan Lake”; Orlumbus’s “Destruction Cannon” / “Commodore Hug”; Chinjao’s “Drillhead.”

Notable panels

• Page 1 — Title page. Request cover (not a serialized cover story): “Dadan dreaming of Sabo, Luffy and Ace” (by Maru x Kazu from Miyagi) — a sleeping Dadan dreaming of the three young ASL brothers grinning above her.
• Page 12 — The fighters spot Pica’s small human body lodged inside the stone giant — “There’s his real body, right there!!!” (the explicit defeat-condition panel).
• Page 13 — Pica pulls a giant katana out of the stone.
• Page 15 — The soprano-voice gag: the towering stone giant speaks “Clear the way… I have business with Straw Hat!!” in a tiny squeaky bubble — ”…Soprano singer.”
• Pages 16–17 — Law’s confession to Luffy: the Corazon reveal (Doflamingo’s murdered younger brother) — the chapter’s climactic beat.

Open questions raised

• Who was Corazon, and why did Doflamingo murder his own younger brother thirteen years ago?
• How did Corazon “give Law his life”? What is the buried history between Law and the Donquixote Family?
• Now that the alliance knows to target Pica’s hidden human body, how do they reach it inside the stone giant?