## One Piece Chapter 720, pages 16-17: The Gladiator Prisoners - Chapter: 720 - Pages: 16-17 - Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Rebecca, Gladiator Prisoners, Donquixote Doflamingo, Donquixote Family ### Summary Page 16: The prisoners shout about the impossible result: "He took down... Rebecca!" and "How could he be faster than her!?" Luffy sits up bruised but calm, while Rebecca says, "...!! Do as you must with me... I'll accept my punishment...!" Luffy cannot understand the logic and asks, "Why would I punish... someone who bought me food...?" Rebecca finally confesses, "Because I tried to kill you!!" Luffy answers plainly, "It's fine. I'm not dead. And besides, you weren't really trying to..." Around them, the other prisoners identify the real problem: Rebecca can forgive too easily, but all this has shown is the true gap between her strength and Luffy's. One says that if she could have taken out even one top contender in advance, her odds would be much better. Page 17: Luffy mistakes the bandaged prisoners for corpses and asks, "Eh... mummies?" They snap back, "We're not mummies!!!" Then they explain who they are: "We're the gladiator prisoners." Rebecca, they say, is made to keep fighting until they meet their deaths in the ring as a show for the audience. The reason is political: every one of them opposed the Donquixote Family at some point. Doflamingo has promised that a gladiator who reaches a hundred wins will walk free, but even the most skilled fighter is bound to break after about a hundred death matches, and anyone caught plotting escape is promised execution. So they are left with no choice. Luffy hears that before Doflamingo became king, these gladiatorial fights did not exist at all; under his rule, the country has seen splendor and also the worst darkness.