Chapter 726

With still more eliminated contestants dropped into the underground pit, Tank studies the disguised Ricky and hesitantly asks whether this is the ruler who once governed Dressrosa. Lifting his helmet, the man admits to being Riku Doldo III, which brings tears of joy to veterans like Tank and a forceful embrace from Elizabello II. Sai, Boo, and Chinjao stay cold, holding the deposed monarch responsible for letting Doflamingo rise into a black-market arms dealer, the trade the Happo Navy arrived to dismantle. When loyal former soldiers and even reanimated broken toys bow before the old king, the whole cell is left astonished.

Without warning, a strand of goo lowers onto Sai and yanks him up into the ceiling, pulling him through a passage into darkness. Trebol issues commands, an unseen process unfolds, and Sai walks out into the open transformed into a toy monkey, robbed of any command over his own movements.

At the Flower Field, Gancho recounts how, across nine centuries, the Donquixote rulers enslaved the dwarves through the Void Century until the Riku line set them free, opening peaceful years that ended only when Doflamingo seized back the throne by treachery. When Robin asks why the people scorn Rebecca, the Thunder Soldier answers by naming himself her father.

Ricky stands revealed as the monarch who once ruled Dressrosa, the man whose granddaughter is Rebecca. A core of ex-soldiers, Tank Lepanto among them and several now turned into toys, keep their allegiance to Doldo, while Elizabello II praises his reign. Doflamingo is named as the figure who armed warring nations, the very trade that drew Sai, Boo, and Chinjao into the games. Hack relays a message to an unidentified contact over a Den Den Mushi.

Sai is inexplicably converted into a toy monkey under Trebol's control. The dwarves are confirmed to have served the Donquixote Family as slaves before being freed by the Riku, yet they hold no recollection of that long-lost century at all, despite an otherwise lengthy memory. Bartolomeo discovers Luffy, and the Thunder Soldier reveals his bond to Rebecca as her parent.

The cover presents a color spread of the crew posed with their younger selves, each marked by the order in which they signed on, captioned with the line about living however they choose, and it gives Brook his earliest childhood appearance in the manga. Watching the island's hidden underclass, Luffy draws a private comparison to the Grey Terminal back in his native Goa Kingdom.