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Chapter 762: The White Town

Arc: Dressrosa · Saga: Dressrosa · Released: 2014-08-04

Summary

The Corazon flashback continues. At the Donquixote family’s hideout in Spider Miles, North Blue, the officers tease a freshly recruited, powerless ten-year-old Trafalgar Law, whom Doflamingo has placed under his brother Corazon. When Law sneezes the crew recoils — his pale, blotchy skin marks him as a carrier of White Lead Disease, and Law coldly recounts surviving the death of his homeland by hiding in a mound of bodies. Oda’s narration then tells the story of Flevance, the “White Town”: a fabulously wealthy North Blue kingdom built on white lead, a beautiful metal mined from its bedrock that is in fact a slow, hereditary poison. The World Government and Flevance’s own royalty knew its true nature a century ago but buried the truth for profit. As whole families died of the same symptoms, neighboring nations assumed the disease was contagious, quarantined the country, and — joined by the fled royals and the WG — gunned down fleeing citizens until war erupted and Flevance “crumbled to dust.” Law’s parents (both doctors) and his little sister Lammy all died; Law alone survived. Back in the present of the flashback, the broken boy fixates on murder, and at the chapter’s close he lunges and stabs Corazon — breaking Doflamingo’s “law of blood.”

New reveals

• Flevance = “the White Town,” a destroyed North Blue kingdom; Law’s homeland. Built of “pure white soil and plants, like some kind of snow kingdom in a fairy tale.”
• White Lead is a metal mined from Flevance’s bedrock — the source of its beauty and its bottomless wealth, but a slow toxin once handled. The WG itself traded it worldwide.
• White Lead Disease (Amber Lead Syndrome): not contagious; a hereditary, accumulative poison. Each generation that worked the lead passed a shorter lifespan to its children, until Law’s generation was fated to die before adulthood. Symptoms: skin and hair go pale/white, the body wracked with pain.
• The World Government and Flevance’s royalty knew the truth a century ago and hid it; the royals fled with WG help, abandoning the people.
• Neighboring nations, fearing infection, isolated the White Town and shot fleeing citizens on sight (“sweeping trouble under the rug”); Flevance fought back; war erupted and the country was annihilated.
• Law’s family were doctors — his father called “the best doctor in the country.” His little sister Lammy and both parents died; Law survived by hiding among corpses and crossing the border.
• Law is 10 years old, has no Devil Fruit (“a measly runt without powers”), and joined the Donquixote family roughly a week ago, assigned under Corazon.
• Doflamingo’s “law of blood”: officers must be respected or the family falls apart; Corazon is Doflamingo’s blood brother and untouchable — anyone who scratches him “dies by my hand.”
• Law’s intent toward Corazon is murderous (“I’m not afraid to die”); he stabs Corazon at the end, breaking the law of blood.

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

Mentions / appearances

• Trafalgar Law — age 10, the “boy from the White Town”; sole survivor of Flevance, white-lead carrier, newly recruited.
• Corazon — Doflamingo’s blood brother (“my precious blood”); Law placed under him; stabbed by Law (pp. 16–17). Lounges by the window (pp. 7, 18). (name on-page: “Corazon” only.)
• Doflamingo — Donquixote Pirates captain; lays down the “law of blood”; protector of Corazon.
• Lammy — Law’s little sister, dying of white-lead disease; killed when the hospital burns (pp. 12–15).
• Baby 5 — young Donquixote member; threatens Law with the “skewering punishment” (p. 5).
• Buffalo — young Donquixote member; had believed white lead is infectious (p. 4).
• Giolla — named on-page (p. 4) as the member who spread the “white lead is contagious” rumor.
• Trebol — present at the feast, taunting the new recruit (pp. 2–3).
• Pica — mentioned only: a member recalls “I laughed at Mr. Pica… and they nearly tortured me” (p. 3).
• Flevance · Spider Miles
• Donquixote Pirates · Donquixote · Amber Lead Syndrome
• Cover: Jinbei — “The Solitary Journey of Jinbei, First Son of the Sea, Vol. 11: ‘Let’s Visit the Port Town’.”

Notable panels

• p. 1 — Title page + cover serial: Jinbei traveling in a bubble past a torii gate marked 海神 (“Sea God”). Cover-story B-plot, vol. 11.
• p. 2 — Caption “BOY FROM THE WHITE TOWN — TRAFALGAR LAW (AGE 10)”; the feast at “Warehouse, garbage dump, Spider Miles, North Blue.”
• p. 3 — Doflamingo’s “law of blood” speech; the crew recoils at Law’s pale skin (“He’s got White Lead Disease!!”). p. 4 — Law’s sneeze (“AAAH!! AH… WHAM!!”).
• p. 6 — Flevance revealed: the white “snow kingdom” cityscape.
• p. 9 — The “ILL EFFECTS OVER TIME” chart: each generation dies younger (90s → 50s → 30s → teens → no children).
• pp. 10–11 — White Town quarantine map; royals flee on a “WORLD GOVT” ship; citizens shot on sight.
• pp. 14–15 — Law screams over his parents’ bodies; the hospital burns; “Flevance the White Town… crumbled to dust” over snowy ruins.
• pp. 16–17 — Law lunges (“There’s Corazon!!”) and stabs him — “SHUNK!!” — “He broke the law of blood!!”
• p. 18 — Closing image: Corazon slouched in an armchair by a window, wine on the sill, face hidden behind a propped sign. (Mirrors p. 7.)

Open questions raised

• Who is Corazon really, and why does Doflamingo prize him as “precious blood”? (His face/nature stay hidden.)
• Why was Law placed specifically under Corazon, and what is Corazon’s relationship to the family beyond brotherhood?
• What becomes of Law after he breaks the “law of blood” by stabbing Corazon?
• The World Government’s complicity in the white-lead cover-up — how far up does it go?