## One Piece Chapter 722, pages 22-23: The Bloodline of Royalty - Chapter: 722 - Pages: 22-23 - Characters: Trafalgar D. Water Law, Donquixote Doflamingo, Fujitora, Nefertari Family, World Government, Tenryubito, Riku Doldo III, Donquixote Family, Riku Royal Family ### Summary Page 22: The scene moves to Green Bit, where Law, Doflamingo, and Admiral Fujitora face one another amid the wreckage. Doflamingo begins explaining old history: "Way back then... it's a story that goes back 800 years, Law." Twenty kings from twenty countries gathered at the center of the world and formed one massive organization, the present-day World Government. Those kings became the "Creators" and moved their families to the holy land of Mariejois. Even now their descendants reign over the world as the Tenryubito. Doflamingo adds that only the Nefertari family of Alabasta declined that opportunity, leaving the organization as nineteen families instead of twenty. The lesson is not abstract; he is preparing to explain where his own family fits. Page 23: Doflamingo, battered but still smiling, asks Law whether he understands where the story is going. In short, he says, 800 years ago the royal families of those nineteen countries departed, and naturally new kings were elected in each country. New royal families were born. In the case of Dressrosa, the new royalty was the Riku clan. Then Doflamingo reveals the missing half of the history: the "Creators," the ones who set out for the holy land at Mariejois, were the Donquixote clan. The final panel brands it as "Lineage with the devil's charisma" and lands on Doflamingo's grin. The chapter's title becomes literal: Dressrosa's current tyrant is not just an invader but the descendant of its original royal line.