## One Piece Chapter 709, pages 14-15: King Punch!! - Chapter: 709 - Pages: 14-15 - Characters: Bartolomeo, Elizabello II ### Summary 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. Page 15: Elizabello tries to keep fighting even after the King Punch fails to remove Bartolomeo. He swings again, but Bartolomeo answers with a named barrier attack: "Barrier Crash!!!" The barrier smashes into the king's body, and Elizabello is thrown backward with a cry of "Gyahh hhhhhhh hhhhh!!!" The announcer understands the fall of the great puncher: "Elizabello the Second, is no longer able to fight!!!" The crowd screams, "Guahh h!!! 'The Fighting King'..." and the final announcement begins through stunned disbelief: "Eh... The winner of B-block is... dammit..." Bartolomeo has not won by overpowering the King Punch. He has won by making that overwhelming force meaningless, then using his barrier offensively at the moment when Elizabello has nothing left.