The Last Light, The Secret of Our Commander!

A massive vessel smashing into the executive tower brings the whole basement to a standstill, leaving the little folk, Usopp, and even the laboring toys frozen in shock. While Zoro keeps Pica busy and Luffy ducks the stone strikes alongside Viola, Robin rouses Usopp from his pretend faint and warns him that Leo's squad has been taken. The captured group refuses to name their human allies, but Trebol baits Leo into blurting out Usoland's name with a fake claim of friendship, then traps Sugar's quarry the same way. After dousing them in flammable sticky goo and igniting it, Trebol leaves Leo badly burned, still insisting Operation SOP must finish so their commander can topple Doflamingo.

Far away, Lao G has nearly finished off the Thunder Soldier, whose mind drifts back to that morning. The newspaper claiming Doflamingo had surrendered his Warlord seat sparks false hope, and the soldier alone calls it a lie. He tries to steady a despairing Rebecca, who rages that a thousand colosseum wins is not freedom but a wall of despair and lashes out that he is only a toy, not her true father. In the present, Rebecca strikes Diamante with a blunted blade and is battered down with an iron club, prompting the disguised Sabo to order Bartolomeo to shield her. Diamante cruelly reminds her how her mother Scarlett died. Rescued by his squad, the Thunder Soldier is urged onward by Kabu, who says all that remains is to shoot Doflamingo.

Leo explains why the rebels stake everything on a humble toy: the Thunder Soldier was the very first person Sugar transformed and was never bound by a contract of obedience, leaving him with the free will to oppose Doflamingo. His true identity is revealed as Kyros, the colosseum's mightiest gladiator. The anime reorders the manga, placing Rebecca's clash with Diamante after Trebol's tower attack rather than after the morning flashback, and adds Doflamingo and CP0 into the recollection. Chicory debuts in this installment.