Chapter 736

Once the four bracket victors and Diamante step onto the ring, three embittered losers from the prior round rush at Rebecca, unwilling to accept defeat. Diamante brushes them off, their swords snapping against what proves to be a cape of steel. He unveils his Hira Hira no Mi, a power that makes the metal ripple like fabric, then bends his blade into the shape of a bull to put them away. He also flags a new danger: boss-class fighting fish lured by the smell of blood, one of them carrying the chest that holds the flame fruit, and the gong starts the five-man free-for-all.

Inside the palace, Viola urges the group toward silence to avoid tripping the alarm, only for Luffy to blow the doors apart with a Gigant Pistol, forcing everyone to shed their disguises and shove through. A guard identifies him and alerts Doflamingo, who is busy watching the masked Lucy weave past a fighting fish on a monitor. The clash of reports infuriates the warlord, who demands to know who is parading around the arena under that name. In the harbor lift, a top officer corners the soldier's raiding party, thrashing the captain and dropping Kabu once he puts on glasses to see his tiny attacker, then planting himself as their barrier. As the trio of palace intruders presses on with no guards behind them, a face surfaces from the castle stone and grows into a full body, the Spade-seat officer Pica.

The replacement Lucy, secretly Sabo, wears two painted scars and sunglasses. Diamante is confirmed to hold the Hira Hira no Mi, and the closing round commences with the flame fruit chained behind the fighting fish numbered 01. Doflamingo discovers Luffy has slipped into the palace together with his swordsman and the princess, the harbor officer wars with the toy captain's dwarf escort, and the intruders are cut off by Pica, whose Ishi Ishi no Mi lets him fuse into stone.