Chapter 734

When the dust lifts, Rebecca alone remains upright, and the announcer and crowd jeer the result, certain she cheated. Only she witnessed the truth: mid-battle Cavendish dropped into sleep, and as rivals closed in to finish him, he woke with a menacing face and cut down everyone in his path at blinding speed. Rebecca barely twisted away from a fatal stroke before Cavendish slumped back into slumber.

Outside, Bastille recounts the legend of the slicing wind that once killed Marines in the kingdom of Rommel, a phenomenon they traced to a man named Hakuba who appears wherever a certain pirate stops. He explains that Cavendish becomes Hakuba whenever he falls asleep, a far stronger and faster killer, though the man actually relishes the fame his other self brings, his ability simply ill-suited to tournament rules. In the palace, Doflamingo gloats to the chained King Riku that Viola's hope is worthless, confident his men will hold the line and that Luffy is still penned in the colosseum, with an unconscious Law shackled to the heart seat. Meanwhile Robin and Usopp reach the basement harbor, and Luffy's group encounters Viola, who offers to lead them inside.

Cavendish is revealed to carry a rare mix of narcolepsy, sleepwalking, and a split personality named Hakuba that surfaces in sleep. Rebecca wins block D by evading Hakuba's strike. Riku Doldo III and the still-unconscious Law are held prisoner in the palace, and Doflamingo remains ignorant of the secret tunnel and the crew's real plan. Senor Pink has engaged Franky, and Viola volunteers to escort Luffy, Zoro, and Kin'emon into the palace.