## One Piece Chapter 709, pages 13-14: King Punch!! - Chapter: 709 - Pages: 13-14 - Characters: Elizabello II, Bellamy, Blue Gilly, Bartolomeo ### Summary Page 13: The smoke settles over B-block, and the colosseum trembles. The spectators react in horror: "What... what terrifying power!!" and "Nothing in the ring could have possibly survived that!!" The announcer begins to declare the outcome: "The winner, hailing from the Kingdom of Prodense, is...!! In the battle royale of B-block..." Bodies lie across the broken arena, and the crowd calls out names in disbelief: "...!! Bellamy!! Blue Gilly!!" "Bellamy-sama!!" The strongest visible candidates have fallen: "Every one of the top candidates to win it all has fallen!!" The announcer coughs and says, "Cough, cough!! What a punch...!!" But something is wrong. Someone sees movement where none should remain: "Hey, look over there!!!" "There's someone else!" "Hmm??" The King Punch has eliminated the expected contenders, but it has not ended the block cleanly. Page 14: The survivor is Bartolomeo, standing untouched behind his unseen protection. He laughs, "Hehaha hahaha..." while the audience realizes why the stands were not destroyed: "The reason that section of the audience wasn't blown away... is that he was protecting them!!" Elizabello is shocked: "!?" Bartolomeo names the power directly: "Barrier!!!" A translation note explains that Barto's taunt is based on traditional Japanese playground culture, and Bartolomeo himself demonstrates it with crossed fingers. He says, "If someone twists their fingers like this, they can make a barrier!! Even snot-nosed kids know that!" Then he mocks Elizabello with the chant, "I ate the 'Bari Bari no Mi' so I'm a 'barrier man'...!!" The revelation clarifies everything from Hack's broken attack to Bellamy hurting himself: Bartolomeo has been making invisible barriers, and the King Punch could not pass through them.