Chapter 773

The swordsman who just felled Dellinger looks like Cavendish but wears a stranger's face, and Bartolomeo finally connects him to the bizarre finish of the colosseum's D-block. Hakuba lunges for Robin, yet she pins him with ease by sprouting limbs from the cliffside. Cavendish briefly reclaims himself, apologizes, and the two minds wrestle until his face splits literally down the middle, one half each.

Gladius moves to wipe out both Robin and the split-faced swordsman by swelling the entire ledge to burst. Bartolomeo charges in, takes poison needles to the leg, and traps Gladius's inflating body inside a barrier so the blast stays contained. Cavendish uses Hakuba's speed to whisk Robin up to the fourth level, then drops into sleep, and Robin races toward Rebecca.

Cavendish is shown to be conscious of Hakuba and able to argue with him for control, while Hakuba understands the body is not his own. Gladius's hair is exposed as venomous spikes. Bartolomeo lands a finishing blow he names after Luffy's signature pistol, a deliberate tribute, flooring Gladius. Robin reaches the field and unveils an expanded version of her flower technique, conjuring butterfly-shaped hands as she joins the stand against Diamante.

The cover advances the Jinbe mini-series, with the sea knight learning that Wadatsumi unknowingly caused a sea kitten's home to vanish. A wounded Bartolomeo vows to grow strong enough for Luffy to depend on him, framing his victory as a step toward that goal.