## One Piece Chapter 781: Long-Cherished Desire - Chapter: 781 - Pages: 0-20 - Characters: Jinbe, sea beasts, fishermen, Donquixote Doflamingo, Donquixote Rosinante, Dressrosa citizens, Monkey D. Luffy, Trafalgar Law, Trebol, Rebecca, Roronoa Zoro, Nico Robin, Usopp, King Riku group, Bartolomeo, body double ### Summary Page 0: Cover page. CHAPTER 781: "LONG-CHERISHED DESIRE". Cover story: Solo Voyage of Jinbe, First Son of the Sea, Vol. 25, "In Apology for Breaking Their Actual Stones, the Sea Beasts Allow the Fishermen to Use Them as Fishing Boats." Jinbe and the islanders look out over huge sea beasts being used like vessels after the earlier harbor incident. Page 2: Color fanart extra page with two dramatic portraits from the Dressrosa battle era. One side shows a red/orange fire-lit male figure, and the other clearly shows Donquixote Doflamingo amid bright pink strings with text referencing "779 - The Last Battle" and "Hazzardlook." This is extra art, not a main story page. Page 3: Color fanart extra page of Donquixote Rosinante/Corazon in a red hood and feathered coat, lighting a cigarette. The image connects to the chapter's continued focus on Law's hatred of Doflamingo and Corazon's death, but it contains no main-story dialogue. Page 4: Dressrosa citizens notice the Birdcage starting to move. People shout, "The fence of threads is moving!" and "Look!! It really is moving!!" Someone calls it "the game of death" closing in. As buildings and streets are squeezed, panic spreads through the city: "Run! No where's safe!" and "Kyaaaaai!" Others yell for everyone to head for the town center. The page establishes the immediate civilian disaster: Doflamingo's cage is no longer a passive barrier but an advancing execution device driving the population inward. Page 5: Reports spread across Dressrosa: "The Birdcage appears to be contracting all over!!" "This is eastern town 'Calta'..." and "It's the same on the west side!" At the Royal Palace, someone realizes, "Everyone will die...!!" Doflamingo tells Luffy, Law, and Trebol, "Ahh, you'll have to pardon me... apparently I forgot to let you know that I changed the rules of the game...!!" Luffy snaps, "'Game'?!! What the hell are you talking about?!" Doflamingo answers that he will need their undivided attention. Page 6: Doflamingo explains the Birdcage: "You see, the 'Birdcage' that's surrounding the town right now... is, little by little, shrinking and contracting." He says to think of it as someone slowly closing an umbrella, and then, before they know it, the entire country will be filtered. Luffy reacts in shock, and Doflamingo estimates, "Let's see... I'd give it about an hour." Across the city, Rebecca and the others worry about Traffy being beaten and the cage shrinking, while citizens cry for help, beg someone to untie their legs, and are told the weaker citizens have already been evacuated to the country's edges. Page 7: The people watching the palace understand that all lives in the country now rest on Luffy's shoulders. Someone says, "That's our only way out!!!" and others shout, "Beat the living crap out of Doflamingo...!!!" and "Luffy!! Hurry!!" Doflamingo mocks that nobody wants to come save Luffy after he let the people who know the country's secret live: "After all, what merit is there... in letting the people who know this country's secret live...?" He threatens everything Luffy cares about: "The town, its people, its animals...!! Even your comrades!! Your everything!!!" Page 8: Doflamingo tells Luffy that his dear friends have gone and died just a little bit before him, asking if that is what "Mugiwara-ya" called him. Luffy, furious, answers that the story has a different ending. Trebol tries to rattle him too, saying there is no need to make that face because they can always make another country, and tells "Mingo" that he just beat the shit out of them. Luffy starts, "Gomu Gomu nooo," but a black panel interrupts with Law's ability: "Chambres." Law swaps positions as Doflamingo laughs that he despises alternate endings. Page 9: Law suddenly appears behind Doflamingo and thrusts his attack into him while Luffy shouts, "Law!!!" Doflamingo makes a sharp "Vnn!!" sound as the strike lands. Luffy declares, "You're the one that's gonna disappear, Doflamingo!!!" Law explains, "This 'Ope' is going to destroy you from the inside out." Luffy urges him, "Do it!!" The page reveals that Law was not dead and that his earlier apparent defeat was part of setting up this one decisive internal attack. Page 10: Law names the attack: "Gamma Knife"!!! The blade of energy pierces Doflamingo at close range inside the Room, and Doflamingo screams, "Gwwwwooooaaargh...!!!" Trebol panics that the little bastard is still alive and kicking and asks how Law can do an "Ope Ope" attack without his damn "Room." Law clarifies the trick: "This whole place is the inside of a 'Room'!!" The attack is presented as a precise surgical strike, using Law's Devil Fruit space to target D...