Chapter Summaries

Usopp returned to the Executive Tower, revealed that he was not the legendary Uso Landu, and chose to fight Trebol to repay the Tontatta's faith. After briefly cutting Trebol apart, Usopp learned that he could reform and continued attacking with his slingshot and newly revealed Devil Fruit power, but Trebol survived his explosive strike and prepared to finish him off.

• Usopp shed his Donquixote Family disguise, told the Tontatta that Uso Landu was a lie, and declared his real name and pirate identity.
• Usopp vowed to stake his life for the Tontatta, attacked Trebol with a Green Star, and cut Trebol into three pieces.
• Trebol reformed his body and fired mucus at Usopp, who dodged and launched a series of attacks that failed to stop him.
• Usopp enlarged a stone to block Trebol's attack, then used the More-More Fruit's power to enlarge an explosive pellet and blast Trebol.
• Trebol survived the explosion by moving to high ground with Sugar, then set Sugar down and prepared to attack Usopp again.

Usopp drove the Tontatta and others out of the battlefield, then used an explosive dust attack that destroyed the Executive Tower but failed to defeat Trebol and Sugar. His attempt to hypnotize Trebol backfired, leaving Usopp trapped in his own gas and at Trebol’s mercy.

• Usopp used Clover Fan to blow the Tontatta, Robin, and Perona out of the battlefield so he could attack without endangering them.
• Usopp grew an Alameiqi Grass plant and ignited its dust with Fire Bird Star, leveling the Executive Tower while Trebol protected Sugar and survived the explosion.
• Usopp saw that the toys had not turned back into humans and realized Sugar had likely remained protected.
• Usopp fired Sleep Star at Trebol, but Trebol swallowed the seed in mucus and sent it back to Usopp, releasing hypnotic gas around him.
• Trebol restrained and beat the drowsy Usopp, while Robin and Perona watched helplessly and Sugar urged Trebol to kill him.

Usopp was beaten unconscious, but Sugar forced him to eat the super-spicy Tabasco Star, and his explosive reaction frightened her into passing out. The toys returned to human form across Dressrosa, the former toys turned on the Donquixote Family, and Doflamingo realized his control of the country was collapsing.

• Trebol told Doflamingo that a Straw Hat pirate had leveled the Executive Tower, then kept Sugar near the unconscious Usopp.
• Sugar threw the Tabasco Star into Usopp's mouth, and he screamed as flames burst from his mouth, frightening Sugar into fainting.
• Sugar's Hobby-Hobby Fruit power ended, restoring Nico Robin, Perona, the Tontatta, and the other toys to human form.
• The restored people attacked the Donquixote Family underlings, while Leo and Flapper celebrated the success of the SOP Operation.
• Trebol told Doflamingo that Sugar had passed out and the toys were turning back into humans; Doflamingo then saw the change himself on the Colosseum broadcast.

Sugar’s defeat restored Dressrosa’s transformed people, allowing Kyros to confront Doflamingo and seemingly kill him. Xi Yan realized the beheaded Doflamingo was a clone, and Pica attacked the group from beneath the palace.

• The toys across Dressrosa returned to human form, and Doflamingo received reports of the chaos as Law and King Riku realized what had happened.
• Kyros charged into the Royal Palace, beheaded Doflamingo, and defeated Buffalo and Baby-5 while freeing King Riku.
• Luffy arrived to rescue Law, who urged him to leave and prioritize destroying the Factory, while Luffy insisted their alliance was not over.
• Xi Yan noticed Doflamingo’s body was not bleeding, and the severed head laughed before Doflamingo confirmed it was a clone.
• Pica burst from beneath the group with a Stone Spike, and Xi Yan assured Violet that Zoro was safe but probably lost.

Xi Yan left Luffy to fight Doflamingo and went to find Marine Admiral Fujitora, while Doflamingo revealed his plan to unleash the Birdcage and kill everyone in Dressrosa outside his family. Luffy saved the people Doflamingo threw from the Royal Palace, and Doflamingo began raising the Birdcage.

• Violet told Xi Yan that Fujitora was near the Toy House with Marines who had stopped attacking, so Xi Yan set off to find him after Luffy said he could handle Doflamingo.
• Doflamingo announced that he would use the Birdcage, while Kyros attacked his clone and Luffy rushed in to protect him from Doflamingo’s real body.
• Doflamingo attacked Luffy with his clone and real body, then taunted King Riku with memories of the tragedy from ten years earlier and threatened a greater massacre.
• Doflamingo ordered Pica to throw Luffy, Violet, King Riku, and the others from the Royal Palace; Luffy caught them with Gum-Gum Balloon.
• Doflamingo sent threads into the sky to activate the Birdcage and declared that no outsider in Dressrosa, including Fujitora, would escape alive.

Usopp survived Sugar’s Tabasco Star and learned the SOP Operation had succeeded, freeing the toy slaves, but his injuries left him unable to fight. As Trebol attacked, Hajrudin raised Usopp before the freed people, whose mistaken interpretation of Usopp’s words turned him into a revered savior and potential rallying point.

• Nico Robin and the Tontatta confirmed that Usopp was alive, and Usopp claimed the successful SOP Operation had been under his control.
• Trebol threatened the group and attacked Nico Robin as the Tontatta carried the badly injured Usopp away.
• Nico Robin blocked Trebol’s Sticky Chain, while Perona used Explosive Ghosts to blast him away.
• Hajrudin arrived, picked up Usopp, and told the freed victims that Usopp had saved them from a life enslaved as toys.
• A falling steel pipe opened the ceiling and cast sunlight on Usopp, leading the crowd to see him as a divine messenger.
• Usopp tried to ask Hajrudin to put him down, but the crowd misunderstood his slurred words as a promise to guide them and praised him as their savior.

Usopp freed the former toys and sent them to destroy the Donquixote Family’s Factory, while Nico Robin and Perona headed toward Sabo and Klar. Sabo reunited with Haku, secured the Diamond Fruit for Ace, and revealed to Rebecca that he was Luffy’s older brother, leaving the freed crowd fighting Diamante as the others regrouped.

• Usopp told the freed people to destroy the Factory and rescue the Tontatta, while Trebol carried Sugar toward it to stop them.
• Hajrudin set Usopp down to recover, and Nico Robin and Perona decided to leave Trebol to the freed crowd before heading toward Sabo and Klar.
• The freed crowd attacked Diamante, who recognized them as former toys and fought back to protect the Factory.
• Sabo and Klar reunited with Haku and Rebecca, and Sabo gave Klar the Diamond Fruit to keep for Ace.
• Bartolomeo joined Sabo’s group, and Sabo told Rebecca that he was a Revolutionary Army soldier and Luffy’s older brother.

Sabo and the others explained the Revolutionary Army’s efforts to stop Doflamingo’s weapons trade and regrouped with Robin, Perona, and the others. As they tended to their companions, the ground began to shake, and they suspected Pica was moving the stone beneath them.

• Sabo told Rebecca the Revolutionary Army had come to stop the weapons trade, while Klar explained their agents had been turned into toys and that no weapons factory had been found.
• Robin reunited with Klar, Sabo, and Haku, and the group welcomed Perona and learned Sabo had obtained the Diamond Fruit for Luffy.
• Robin identified the badly injured Usopp as a companion, and Perona confirmed to Bartolomeo that Usopp was the Sniper King, leaving Bartolomeo ecstatic.
• Perona used a Negative Ghost to stop Kin'emon from ogling Rebecca, then Kin'emon used his ability to conjure casual clothes for her.
• Robin learned that Kin'emon and Vika had found the defeated Tontatta, and she reassured them that the others would handle the remaining fight.
• The ground shook and an opening began to tear behind the group, so Sabo, Perona, and Leo suspected that Pica was moving the stone.

Pica moved the Royal Palace and Factory to the Flower Field and streets while Doflamingo announced a deadly bounty game across Dressrosa, trapping everyone inside the Birdcage. As civilians and pirates weighed their options, Fujitora freed Marines from Doflamingo’s control, and the chapter ended with Doflamingo naming the first targets and their bounties.

• A Marine reported that ruffians had appeared among the Marines and civilians as the King's Plateau began sinking.
• Pica moved the Royal Palace to the Flower Field and placed the Factory on a street, causing widespread casualties as buildings shifted.
• Doflamingo broadcast that people could end his game by killing him or hunting fifteen rebels, and revealed that his Birdcage blocked escape and Den Den Mushi signals.
• Fujitora subdued a Marine controlled by Doflamingo, cut the threads controlling nearby Marines, and resolved to abolish the Shichibukai.
• Doflamingo listed Rebecca, Nico Robin, Kin'emon, Viola, Franky, Sunglasses Man, Perona, and Merry as one-star targets, then named Kyros and Roronoa Zoro as two-star targets.
• Doflamingo named Sabo, Monkey D. Luffy, Trafalgar Law, and Riku Dold III as three-star targets, stirring greed among the people watching.

Doflamingo put a five-hundred-million-Beli bounty on Usopp, turning the fleeing group into targets as they escaped through Dressrosa. Luffy and the others learned Kyros had gone after Doflamingo and that Xi Yan had gone to confront a Marine Admiral, while Perona’s Negative Hollows helped hold off their pursuers.

• Doflamingo revealed Usopp as the cause of the game and offered five hundred million Beli for his head, prompting Sabo to lead the group toward an escape route.
• Kin'emon split off to search for Kanjuro, jumped into a hole leading to the scrapyard, and left his pursuers behind.
• Bartolomeo used his barrier to knock down the people chasing Usopp’s group, while Perona received a call from Zoro and spoke with Luffy and the others.
• Luffy revealed that Kyros had gone to find Doflamingo, and Rebecca learned that the Soldier who had protected her was her father.
• Rebecca asked about Xi Yan, and Luffy said he had gone to find the Marine Admiral; Bartolomeo praised him while Sabo led the group onward.
• Perona released Negative Hollows that made their pursuers collapse in remorse, then warned them before rejoining her companions.

Luffy rejected Law’s plan to avoid confronting Doflamingo and rushed toward him despite Law’s Sea Stone handcuffs. Meanwhile, Fujitora prioritized protecting Dressrosa’s civilians and began openly questioning the World Government’s support for the Shichibukai.

• Luffy told Law he would deal with Kaido’s anger later and would not let Doflamingo continue threatening Dressrosa’s people.
• Violet revealed that Law’s handcuff key had fallen somewhere on the Royal Palace grounds, but Luffy charged off with Law and Zoro before she could search for it.
• Luffy leaped from King’s Plateau toward the ground with Law and Zoro, intending to confront Doflamingo.
• Fujitora ordered the Marines to protect civilians and target the Straw Hat Crew and Law’s alliance rather than arrest Doflamingo immediately.
• Maynard reported evidence that Doflamingo had turned Marines, officials, and other people into toys, but Fujitora challenged the existence of the Shichibukai and asked Maynard to follow his decision.
• Maynard agreed to obey Fujitora and support his stand against the Shichibukai.

Doflamingo decided to use Sugar against Fujitora and planned to kill the Marines after they had served their purpose. Luffy, Law, and Zoro landed among the Donquixote Family and a hostile crowd, then fled in the wrong direction as armed pursuers closed in.

• Doflamingo destroyed the Factory keys, dismissed Trebol and Diamante’s excuses, and revealed his plan to use Sugar against Fujitora before killing the Marines.
• A Marine colonel ordered his troops to subdue the ruffians and search for the Straw Hat Crew and Law, while Senor Pink, Mahavise, and Dellinger speculated about Franky and the missing girl.
• Luffy crashed down carrying Law, with Zoro arriving alongside them, and Donquixote Family members and Marines recognized the three as enemies.
• Luffy and Zoro ran in the wrong directions before Law pointed them toward the right path.
• A group of armed pursuers identified Luffy, Law, and Zoro as high-value convicts and charged after them.

Luffy, Zoro, and Law fought through bounty hunters and townspeople before Xi Yan stayed behind to face Admiral Fujitora, allowing the others to continue toward Doflamingo. Doflamingo wondered whether Xi Yan was the supposedly dead Blood-Eyed Ninja, then announced his brutal contest to make Dressrosa’s citizens choose between the Riku Family and the Donquixote Family.

• Dellinger, Senor Pink, and Mahavise attacked Luffy and Law, but Zoro disrupted them and Luffy broke free.
• Bounty hunters and armed townspeople blocked Luffy, Zoro, and Law, until Fujitora arrived and barred their way.
• Xi Yan confronted Fujitora and told Luffy and Zoro to take Law and leave; they did so while Xi Yan stayed to fight.
• A Donquixote Family observer reported the encounter to Doflamingo, who suspected Xi Yan might be the Blood-Eyed Ninja before dismissing the idea.
• Pica offered to destroy their enemies, while Doflamingo explained that his cruel contest would ask Dressrosa’s citizens to choose between the Riku Family and his own.

Doflamingo’s officers discussed the arrival of Smoker and assumed the Marines and Straw Hat Pirates would weaken each other before he struck. Smoker reconsidered pursuing Luffy after learning Fujitora was facing a Straw Hat crew member, suspected the man might be the supposedly dead Blood-Eyed Ninja, and headed to Fujitora; Charlotte Galette then encountered the Birdcage.

• Pica threatened a newcomer who laughed at his voice, but Baby-5 killed the man before Pica could act.
• Doflamingo warned his underlings that anyone who mocked his family would be punished.
• A scout reported that Marine Admiral Candidate White Snake Smoker had appeared, and Doflamingo’s officers debated why he had come.
• Doflamingo planned to let the Marines and Straw Hat Pirates fight before attacking the survivors.
• Smoker found the Birdcage blocking signals and considered confronting Doflamingo, but changed course after hearing Luffy was in East Street and Fujitora was facing a Straw Hat crew member.
• Smoker suspected the Sunglasses Man might be the Blood-Eyed Ninja and ordered his Marines to take him to Fujitora; Charlotte Galette encountered the Birdcage elsewhere.

Xi Yan fought Fujitora and revealed enough strength to make the Marine Admiral question his identity. Pica raised a massive stone giant over the town, but Smoker intervened and destroyed its fist before it could strike the people below.

• Fujitora attacked Xi Yan with gravity and a sword slash, while Xi Yan struck him back with a Haki-coated fist.
• Mahavise and Dellinger left to seek out Straw Hat and the girl Dellinger wanted to fight.
• Xi Yan escaped Fujitora's gravity, and Fujitora questioned who he was before Pica's giant emerged from the ground.
• Luffy laughed at Pica's high-pitched voice, angering Pica into swinging his enormous stone fist toward the town.
• Smoker shattered Pica's stone fist with a Haki-coated punch, while Tashigi cut apart falling rock fragments.
• Smoker confronted Pica and demanded to know why he had attacked despite the civilians and Marines below.

Smoker left Pica after hearing that Fujitora had reached an agreement with Doflamingo, while Luffy, Zoro, and Law escaped to another street. Cavendish abandoned his hunt for the Straw Hat Crew out of gratitude to Usopp, then declared that he would defeat Doflamingo, but Luffy insisted on doing it himself.

• Pica claimed Doflamingo had reached an agreement with Fujitora, prompting Smoker to head toward the Admiral and Pica to send his men searching for Luffy.
• Luffy, Zoro, and Law discussed Smoker's appearance and worried that he might threaten Usopp and the others.
• Cavendish attacked Law over his lost popularity, but stopped when he explained that Usopp had saved him from remaining a toy.
• Cavendish returned Law's hat and announced that he would defeat Doflamingo, while Luffy insisted he would do it himself to repay Rebecca for her bento.
• Cavendish imagined reporters praising him as a superstar, and Luffy and Zoro left with Law while discussing Cavendish and the Colosseum.

Luffy and Zoro fled bounty hunters, but were cornered by Chinjao and other allies who wanted to repay their debts by defeating Doflamingo themselves. When bounty hunters attacked, the allies drove them back and punished the ungrateful former toys.

• Luffy and Zoro defeated one group of bounty hunters, then ran when more arrived and Chinjao, Lao Cai, and Abu pursued them.
• Chinjao explained that he had come to repay Luffy and Usopp, and Lao Cai said the Eight Treasure Navy wanted to destroy Doflamingo’s underground trade.
• Hajrudin, King Elizabello II, and other former Colosseum fighters arrived, each insisting that they should defeat Doflamingo to repay a debt.
• Zoro suggested that Luffy and his crew take down Doflamingo while the others acted as backup, but the group argued over who would claim the victory.
• A bounty hunter threw a spear at Luffy, and the group recognized the attackers as former toys from the Underground Factory who were hunting them for money.
• Hajrudin and the others struck down the bounty hunters, while Abdullah and Jeet charged in to punish them for betraying their benefactors.

Luffy, Zoro, Law, and the gladiators raced toward the Royal Palace to confront Doflamingo, while their allies argued over who would defeat him. Tashigi rescued civilians and kept her eye on Zoro’s swords as the group fought through Donquixote Family forces and continued toward the New Royal Palace.

• Luffy and Zoro rode Ushi toward the Royal Palace, with Law and the gladiators following despite Luffy’s protests.
• Pica attacked the group with a giant stone palm, but Chinjao and King Elizabello II shattered it and his arm with their combined attacks.
• Smoker left the fight to find Fujitora and noticed Xi Yan gave him a familiar feeling, while Tashigi ordered Marines to rescue civilians and resolved to take Zoro’s famed sword.
• Edio, Orlumbus, and Hajrudin defeated Donquixote Family grunts who tried to block the group’s path.
• Luffy and his allies continued toward Doflamingo, arguing over who would be the one to defeat him.

Xi Yan watched Fujitora and Smoker discuss Doflamingo and the Shichibukai, while Fujitora revealed his plan to have pirates defeat Doflamingo so the world’s rulers would support abolishing the system. Fujitora asked Smoker to help stage the plan, leaving Smoker troubled by the prospect of working with the pirates rather than fighting them.

• Fujitora ordered the Vice Admirals to gather at the foot of the Royal Palace, then questioned Xi Yan about the purpose of the Shichibukai.
• Smoker arrived and angrily challenged Fujitora for not acting against Doflamingo, while Xi Yan recognized Fujitora’s intentions and vanished using an Instant Body Technique.
• Fujitora told Smoker he wanted to abolish the Shichibukai system, and Smoker agreed that Doflamingo’s crimes showed the danger it posed.
• Fujitora explained that pirates had to defeat Doflamingo and expose his crimes so the kings of the Member States would vote to abolish the Shichibukai at the Reverie.
• Fujitora asked Smoker to cooperate and put on a show, leaving Smoker unsure how he could still fight the Straw Hat Crew.

Smoker agreed to let the Straw Hat Pirates act while the Marines waited for a chance to expose the Shichibukai. Xi Yan reunited with Galette, who gave up seeking the Diamond Fruit and renewed her search for the Magnet-Magnet Fruit, before offering to help him monitor the Marines.

• Smoker agreed with Fujitora to make only token efforts to stop the Straw Hat Pirates and take over after Luffy decided the outcome.
• Xi Yan met Galette, who was delighted to find him alive and learned that he had hidden his identity.
• Galette explained that she had come to seek the Diamond Fruit and ask the Straw Hat Pirates about Xi Yan, but he warned her about Sugar's power to erase people from existence.
• Xi Yan told Galette that the Straw Hat Pirates had promised the Diamond Fruit to Ace, and she agreed not to compete for it.
• Galette told Xi Yan she had kept searching for the Magnet-Magnet Fruit, and he gave her his Den Den Mushi number.
• Xi Yan said he was watching the Marine Admiral and Admiral Candidate, and Galette offered to help.