## One Piece Chapter 720: The Gladiator Prisoners - Chapter: 720 - Pages: 0-18 - Characters: Gabull, Caribou, Jesus Burgess, Bartolomeo, Monkey D. Luffy, Corrida Colosseum Commentator, Donquixote Family, Chinjao, Cavendish, Corrida Colosseum Staff, Portgas D. Ace, Gol D. Roger, Straw Hat Pirates, Sai, Boo, Monkey D. Garp, Rebecca, Happou Navy, Kuzan, Shiryu, Marshall D. Teach, Corrida Colosseum Vendor, Gladiator Prisoners, Donquixote Doflamingo, Soldier ### Summary Page 0: Cover page for Chapter 720, "The Gladiator Prisoners." The cover story continues as "Caribou's Kehihihihi in the New World - Volume 37 - 'Free the proletariat, and granny too!'" Gabull's arrival turns into open revolt, with the local workers and old woman caught up in the uprising against the armed men. This is useful extra material for the ongoing cover serial rather than part of the main Dressrosa colosseum plot. Page 1: The chapter opens over the damaged Corrida Colosseum as the announcer declares, "This has been Corrida Colosseum's Battle Royale!!!" The rules of the tournament are laid out again: at this time, three fighters have earned the right to challenge the Donquixote Family. The winner of A-Block comes from the Blackbeard Pirate crew, "the Champion," Jesus Burgess; B-Block produced "the Cannibal," Bartolomeo, captain of the Barto Club; and then C-Block belongs to "our gladiator, Lucy!!!" The ruined ring below shows how violent Luffy's victory over Chinjao was. The staff regretfully announce, "Only one more fighter will move on to the finals!!" but also admit, "The ring has been heavily damaged!" so the start of D-Block must be delayed by fifteen minutes while they hurry to fix it. Page 2: Behind the arena, the chaos from C-Block continues. Staff shout, "Get the replacement ring!" and "Hang in there! D-Block is coming!" while Luffy runs through the corridor and someone recognizes him with "Straw-hat!?" Chinjao's men shout "Duran dal!!" and "Cabbage!!" as Cavendish and Chinjao both surge after Luffy, each with his own reason to stop him. Luffy is cornered by rage from multiple directions: "You've no longer anywhere to run!" Cavendish attacks with a flash of his blade while Chinjao's huge body barrels in from behind. Luffy is struck in the middle of the passage with "Dahh!!" and the crowding fighters turn the corridor into a second battlefield even after the official block has ended. Page 3: The other fighters realize that Cavendish has lost control again. Someone asks, "What's up with that?" while another warns, "Cavendish is going wild again!" They note that he keeps calling Luffy "Strawhat," and Cavendish snarls, "That bastard!" Nearby, Burgess laughs at the situation: "Dahahaha if he just went there to fail, well, even I could have done that!!" The fighters also discuss Luffy's reputation from Marineford, asking whether he is "Strawhat... isn't that, uh, you know, that guy?" and remembering him as "the pirate who couldn't save his own brother." Cavendish, crushed in the fighting, screams, "Behaaa!! Cut it out!! You're crushing me!!" and demands respect as "a noble from the country of Doelena!" while Luffy is still dragged into everyone's grudges. Page 4: Bartolomeo's devotion to Luffy becomes explicit. With tears and an intense face, he says, "...Listen up, Strawhat Luffy-senpai will... one way or another, he'll stand and bear the weight of this generation!!! He's the future King of the Pirates!!!" His admiration reaches back to Loguetown, where he says, "I... I saw it. Two years ago, but also before that... in the East Blue...! In Loguetown!" He remembers the legendary execution platform where the Pirate King Roger met his end. Facing certain death, Luffy had shouted, "I'm the man...!! who'll be king of the pirates!" and at that instant lightning dropped from the heavens. Bartolomeo insists, "But it didn't kill that man...!! I witnessed nothing less than a miracle!!" For him, Luffy's survival was proof, not rumor. Page 5: Bartolomeo explains that from that day on he devoured every article he could find about the Straw Hat crew: "Alabasta," "Enies Lobby," "Impel Down," and "the fateful 'Marineford'!!!" He says he looked up to Luffy as "an idol and role model," and that the thrill of Luffy's return from under Navy control in his homeland pushed him to set out to sea himself. The fighters around him are less impressed and more annoyed. Cavendish continues attacking Luffy for daring to compare himself to the idol Bartolomeo worships, and Luffy, exhausted, complains, "Why do we have to fight now? I'm tired!!" Cavendish demands, "Be a good boy and release my blade!" while Bartolomeo loses control too, shouting that anyone who talks about Luffy as if they are better than him deserves punishment. Page 6: The corridor devolves into a three-way scuffle. Luffy, Cavendish, and Bartolomeo smash into each other while someone calls, "Oi, somebody stop them!" Bartolomeo tries to stay cold, but the scar under Cavendish's eye distracts him....