## One Piece Chapter 721, pages 5-7: Rebecca and Soldier-san - Chapter: 721 - Pages: 5-7 - Characters: Rebecca, Scarlet, Riku Royal Fighters, Dressrosa Citizens, Soldier ### Summary Page 5: The flashback darkens on the night Dressrosa changed. People shout, "What happened to the king!?" "Stop it!!" and "The Riku Royal Fighters have set fire to the town!!" Scarlet looks toward the burning palace and asks, "What's happening in this country...?" while another voice cries, "The palace... it's burning!!" She flees with young Rebecca as soldiers or rioters rush through the fields, and someone screams, "Run away, Scarlet-sama!!" The attack shatters the flower-field life in a single page. What Rebecca remembers is not political theory but smoke, panic, the palace burning, her mother's fear, and the first moment the Riku name became a curse in the mouths of the people. Page 6: A dark figure attacks through the chaos, mocking Rebecca as "this little shrimp" while people shout, "Run!! Run far away!" and "Out of our way!!" Rebecca and Scarlet are separated by pursuit, smoke, and fields of flowers. Scarlet tells her daughter, "Rebecca... can I leave you alone, just for a bit?" Rebecca answers that she is hungry, and Scarlet apologizes: "I'm sorry, of course you are. It's been two whole days..." She asks Rebecca to promise not to move from the spot and says, "I'll go get us something to eat..." Rebecca agrees with "Okay." The page is painful because the promise is ordinary and doomed: a child waits in a flower field while her mother leaves for food in a city collapsing under violence. Page 7: Rebecca waits among the flowers until she hears "Rustle rustle" and calls, "Mommy!?" Instead, Soldier appears, breathing hard with "Haa!! Haa!! Wheeze...!!" and carrying Scarlet's body. He cries, "I couldn't! I couldn't protect her...!!!" and then says, "Sorry... you've been hungry, and waiting...!! ...She told me to give you this." He gives Rebecca food from Scarlet, but his grief spills out: "I couldn't protect your mother... I'm so sorry!!!" The page lets the child's hunger and the adult's guilt collide at the same moment. Rebecca wanted her mother to come back with food; Soldier comes instead with the food and the body, and with the failure that will define both of their lives.