## One Piece Chapter 703, pages 5-7: Waiting Room - Chapter: 703 - Pages: 5-7 - Characters: Violet, Sanji, Roronoa Zoro, Nami, Nico Robin ### Summary Page 5: The dancer commands the room. Men cheer "So passionate," "So sweet," and "Bravo" as she dances through the music, breathless but poised. Someone calls out, "You're the best dancer in the world," while the page names her: "Dancing Girl Violet." Sanji is already lost. Heart marks swirl around him as he stares and stammers, "P... pretty..." Zoro, unimpressed and practical, warns him, "Didn't you hear about how the women in this place stab men? Someone like you is just asking for it!!" But Sanji has already surrendered. In his mind, danger has become invitation, and when Violet glances his way, he melts further: "It's fine if she stabs me..." The performance is not background decoration; it pulls Sanji completely off the trail, turning the search for the fairy thief into the start of a new Dressrosa entanglement. Page 6: The man Violet escaped from howls in the street, "That perpetually lost Marimo child...!!" while Sanji watches the smoke where Zoro vanished and realizes, "I really lost him!!" A bystander shouts, "Crap!! He's gone!!" Sanji considers whether Nami and Robin would be jealous if they saw all the couples around him, then bitterness wins for a moment: "But I'm getting jealous, seeing all these couples around here." He clicks his tongue and decides, "Alrighty! This is my chance. Let's just leave him on this island!! I really did try to stick with him... I gave it an honest attempt." Then Violet appears before him. "Excuse me, are you the man who locked eyes with me before?" Sanji can only answer, "Hmm?" She closes in, sweating and desperate, and pleads, "Please, put your arms around me!!" Sanji's heart explodes into panic and delight: "Ehhh h!!?" Page 7: Violet pulls Sanji into a narrow escape as pursuers search nearby. One man asks, "Where'd that woman go!?" Another guesses, "Pretty sure she took the back exit into 'Lovers' Lane'." A third answers, "Right... so she couldn't have gotten far." The order is clear: "Don't let her out of this city." Hidden against the wall, Violet pants, "Haa haa," and whispers, "Thanks... looks like they're gone..." Sanji tries to recover himself. "I... think I'll be alright..." Violet says nothing for a beat, and then Sanji's fantasy overwhelms him. She has pulled him close, and he is not resisting. He laughs and gasps, "Kyah hh!!" while she tells him, "You're quite welcome." The sound effects "Swoosh" and the silent pauses make the hiding place feel charged and absurd, with danger nearby but Sanji already swept away by Violet's touch.