## One Piece Chapter 721, pages 16-17: Rebecca and Soldier-san - Chapter: 721 - Pages: 16-17 - Characters: Rebecca, Soldier, Scarlet, Monkey D. Luffy, Riku Doldo III, Corrida Colosseum Commentator, Corrida Colosseum Audience, Gladiator Prisoners ### Summary Page 16: Rebecca begins to imagine a future with Soldier. Sitting beside him, she says, "Someday, I really want to... live in a house together, Soldier-san." Soldier answers, "I will teach you how to fight!" She asks what will happen if something happens to her, and he says, "Nah, that's alright. I've got you, after all." But Scarlet's lesson remains inside Rebecca: "Mother always said it's wrong to hurt others..." Soldier refuses to teach her cruelty. Instead, he says, "So I will teach you how to avoid being hurt, yourself!! Now come at me!!" Rebecca trains, learns to dodge, and later remembers, "You were always by my side. Time and time again you protected me." The page turns her defensive fighting style into a direct inheritance from Soldier's love. Page 17: The flashback returns to the present D-Block ring, where Rebecca enters to hatred instead of applause. The crowd screams, "Fuck you!!" "Go to hell, Rebecca!!" "You damn Riku royal!!" and "You member of that rotten family!" Some shout, "Today's the day you'll drop dead!" Rebecca stands alone and answers herself, "I won't lose!!!" The announcer calls her "our colosseum's most beautiful young gladiator," "the phantom princess," and "the fighter who heats up the ring to the boiling point." Luffy, watching from the prison dorms, asks why everyone hates her so much when she seemed so nice and even bought him lunch. A prisoner explains the cruel reason: Rebecca's grandfather is the much-hated former king of the land. Rebecca grips her sword and thinks, "Don't die, Soldier-san...!! Because I..." The chapter ends on her fear and resolve, with a note that One Piece will take a break next week.