Chapter 750: Flash Points

Arc: Dressrosa · Saga: Dressrosa · Released: 2014-04-21

Summary

With Pica’s giant stone colossus stopped (its head struck off by Zoro), the colosseum rabble surges up the King’s/Royal Plateau toward Doflamingo’s palace, each fighter roaring that he will take Doflamingo’s head. Trebol and Diamante watch in disbelief as the gladiators refuse to break. Violet (Viola), spying through binoculars, narrates the battlefield as four “flash points” — Zoro vs Pica, Luffy & Law’s climb, the Navy blockade, and the gladiators — with the palace officers (Machvise, Gladius, Baby 5, Lao G, Dellinger) en route to the top and Team Kyros running the gauntlet. A faction of gladiators, driven by Doflamingo’s bounty “game,” declares it must seize the alliance’s wanted “convicts” to survive (“it’s not the money we want”); Trafalgar Law says he doesn’t blame them but must hasten. God Usopp’s retinue (Robin, Rebecca, Bartolomeo, Hack, the Tontatta) reaches the surface; Viola crashes in with the key to Law’s cuffs and pledges her hopes to the Straw Hats over the World Government that legitimized Doflamingo. Rebecca volunteers to carry the key across the rooftops to “Lucy” (Luffy), escorted by Tontatta; another dwarf team under Inhel holds the factory and moves to rescue Princess Mansherry. Team Franky blows open the SMILE-factory door and meets Pink, who has come to settle their score. Luffy and the gladiators storm the New Royal Plateau steps; “Gum-Gum Gatling” smashes the Donquixote guard. At the Navy line, a top-hatted, caped figure — Sabo — stands over fallen marines and forbids passage to anyone who would harm the Straw Hats, declaring himself a Revolutionary and “as a brother!!” Fujitora answers: “And whose brother might you be?” — setting up their duel. (Page 20 is a Volume-75 SBS; page 21 is the next chapter’s title page.)

New reveals

• Violet has obtained the key to Trafalgar Law’s seastone handcuffs and is sending it to the front; Rebecca takes it to deliver to Luffy across the rooftops, escorted by Tontatta — despite being “a convict in the game” (pp. 9–12).
• Sabo openly outs himself to an Admiral — both as a Revolutionary Army officer (“As a revolutionary, I forbid you to pass!!”) and as Luffy’s “brother” — and positions himself as the guardian of the Straw Hats’ path (pp. 18–19).
• The Dressrosa battlefield is mapped as four flash points, with palace officers (Machvise, Gladius, Baby 5, Lao G, Dellinger) converging on the top (p. 5).
• Vice Admiral Bastille named as part of the Navy blockade Luffy’s group breaks through (p. 15).
• New Tontatta name: Inhel, who is left in charge of holding the factory (p. 12).
• SBS (p. 20, Vol. 75): Sugar’s real age is 22 — her body frozen at age 10 by the Hobby-Hobby Fruit; Oda lists the ages of the entire Donquixote Family (Doflamingo 41, Trebol 49, Vergo 41, etc.).

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

Mentions / appearances

• People: Luffy, Zoro, Trafalgar Law, Sabo, Fujitora, Bastille, Franky, Pink, Violet (Viola), Rebecca, King Riku, Nico Robin, Usopp, Hack, Cavendish, Bartolomeo, Trebol, Diamante, Pica, Gladius, Dellinger, Machvise, Baby 5, Lao G, Kyros, Leo, Cub, Inhel (new), Mansherry (mentioned), Doflamingo (referenced). (SBS, p.20:) Sugar, Vergo, Monet, Buffalo.
• Groups / crews: Revolutionary Army, Donquixote Pirates, the Navy, the Corrida Colosseum gladiators, Dwarves (Tontatta).
• Devil Fruits: Hobi Hobi no Mi (SBS, age-freeze mechanic).
• Locations: Dressrosa (the New/Royal Plateau steps; the SMILE factory).

Notable panels

• Pages 1–2 — Two-page “FLASH POINTS” title spread: Luffy & Zoro enthroned among the colosseum gladiators; the “ONE PIECE” logo straddles both pages. Visually significant — a “rally-around-the-future-Pirate-King” composition (mirror candidate).
• Page 3 — Pica’s stone colossus head falls off and stops moving (Zoro’s cut); the Donquixote forces scramble to “head them off.”
• Page 5 — The four-flash-points strategic map of Dressrosa (Zolo vs Pica · Luffy & Law · Navy · Gladiators · Kyros · palace-bound officers).
• Page 9 — Viola crashes in with the key to Law’s cuffs: “It’s the key, Father!”
• Page 14 — Señor Pink emerges at the blasted factory door to settle his score with Franky.
• Page 16 — Diagram of the New Royal Plateau’s steps; Luffy reaches the first.
• Pages 18–19 — Sabo over the downed Navy line: “I can’t let anyone pass who intends harm to the Straw Hat Pirates… As a brother!!”; Fujitora: “And whose brother might you be?” (cliffhanger).
• Page 20 — (Bonus) SBS Question Corner (Vol. 75): Sugar is 22, frozen at 10; full Donquixote Family age list.
• Page 21 — (Out of scope — next chapter) Chapter 751 title page “Sabo vs. Admiral Fujitora,” opening Limited Cover Series No. 21 “Onward To My Friends.”

Open questions raised

• Will Rebecca reach Luffy with the key before the Navy or the Donquixote game-hunters intercept her?
• Can Sabo hold off Admiral Fujitora, and what does a Revolutionary openly opposing the Navy mean for the World Government’s view of Dressrosa?
• Will Franky settle his rematch with Señor Pink in time to clear the factory and free Mansherry?