## One Piece Chapter 728, pages 10-11: The Tragic Ranks - Chapter: 728 - Pages: 10-11 - Characters: Toy Soldier, Riku Doldo III, Viola, Leo, Donquixote Doflamingo ### Summary Page 10: In the flower field, the Toy Soldier carries the weight of everyone Doflamingo broke. He says King Riku is definitely still alive somewhere in Dressrosa, but he cannot imagine the pain Riku has endured for ten years, nor the pain in Viola's heart. Fear, anger, and tears have filled an entire decade. He also thinks of the soldiers who, alongside King Riku, were manipulated against their will into striking down the people in front of them. Someone asks if King Riku's men were not killed that night, and the Soldier's silence makes clear that the answer is more complicated. Dressrosa's tragedy is not only the stolen throne; it is the way Doflamingo forced victims to appear as villains and then left them to live with that stain. Page 11: The Toy Soldier explains that some of the royal soldiers were killed, but others bowed down to Doflamingo on the spot and survived as his bodyguards. The listeners react with anger: "What a bunch of traitors!!" and "They were only acting on the orders of that crazed King Riku!!" But the Soldier refuses to abandon them. He asks to take those men on as his own, because he believes they too had to make an impossible decision. Leo is moved to tears again: "Well if that's how it is then I can't help but cry again!! You guys...!!" The Soldier adds that even with the surviving soldiers, their numbers fall short of the country's full military strength. The rebellion is still too small, but his mercy toward the shamed soldiers reveals the kind of leader he is.