## One Piece Chapter 721: Rebecca and Soldier-san - Chapter: 721 - Pages: 0-17 - Characters: Gabull, Caribou, Scotch, Rebecca, Monkey D. Luffy, Soldier, Gladiator Prisoners, Dressrosa Toys, Corrida Colosseum Commentator, Scarlet, Riku Royal Fighters, Dressrosa Citizens, Donquixote Doflamingo, Riku Royal Family, Riku Doldo III, Corrida Colosseum Audience ### Summary Page 0: Cover page for Chapter 721, "Rebecca and Soldier-san." The cover story continues as "Caribou's Kehihihihi in the New World - Volume 38 - 'Eat this, Scotch the Ruler!'" Gabull, mistaken through Caribou's face and identity, attacks Scotch in a swirl of impact and smoke while Scotch is knocked back. This is useful extra material for the ongoing cover serial rather than part of the main Dressrosa plot. Page 1: Rebecca sits in the prison dorms with her hands over her face and finally says the truth behind her tears: "Soldier-san... is going to die." Luffy asks, "Soldier...?" and she explains that he is "a toy soldier... with just one leg..." Luffy remembers the toy at the colosseum entrance and says, "Didn't I meet someone like that near the colosseum entrance?" Rebecca confirms, "Yeahh... that was definitely him..." The prisoners nearby warn that they cannot leave the colosseum and cannot do anything about events outside, even if something needs doing. The page narrows the wide political rebellion into Rebecca's private fear: Soldier is not an abstract rebel leader to her, but the one person she is terrified of losing. Page 2: Luffy is confused that Rebecca is so worried about a toy, and she answers carefully. She says, "Given that you're an outsider, I didn't imagine that you'd understand... but they are the same as humans." In Dressrosa, toys become friends to the friendless, siblings for only children, and companions to lonely singles; because of those bonds, Rebecca says she does not understand why humans and toys are not allowed to live together. The images show toys integrated into families and daily life, not as tools but as emotional replacements. Rebecca then explains her own wound: "I... I'm the only one left from my family, but from the day my mother passed away... I was raised by Soldier-san... to me... he's no less than a real parent...!!" Page 3: The announcement from outside interrupts Rebecca's confession: "Rebecca, your match is gonna start!" and "Thank you for waiting patiently. The new ring is now in place!!" Luffy notices Soldier and mutters, "Ehhh... that guy..." while Rebecca quietly answers, "...Yeah." She apologizes for the food, saying she knows Luffy spent everything he had on her and that the two colosseum lunchboxes fell on the floor during their little fight. Luffy still eats them from the ground with "Chomp chomp," insisting, "But even though they fell, they're still real tasty!!" Rebecca smiles at him and says, "You really don't look like a prisoner." Luffy answers simply, "I'll see you in the finals." Page 4: As D-Block fighters head for the ring, Rebecca remembers a gentler past. A small Rebecca cries "Mommy!!" while her mother Scarlet works in a flower field. Scarlet points out the flowers, saying, "Lookit all the flowers!" and little Rebecca answers, "Oh, Rebecca." At home, Scarlet laughs and thanks her daughter for helping her work: "Thank you for helping me work! Now let's go to town to sell them." The memory is warm and ordinary: a small house, a table, flowers, and a mother teaching her child a life outside courtly splendor. Against the looming colosseum match, the quiet domestic panels show what Rebecca lost before she ever became a gladiator. Page 5: The flashback darkens on the night Dressrosa changed. People shout, "What happened to the king!?" "Stop it!!" and "The Riku Royal Fighters have set fire to the town!!" Scarlet looks toward the burning palace and asks, "What's happening in this country...?" while another voice cries, "The palace... it's burning!!" She flees with young Rebecca as soldiers or rioters rush through the fields, and someone screams, "Run away, Scarlet-sama!!" The attack shatters the flower-field life in a single page. What Rebecca remembers is not political theory but smoke, panic, the palace burning, her mother's fear, and the first moment the Riku name became a curse in the mouths of the people. Page 6: A dark figure attacks through the chaos, mocking Rebecca as "this little shrimp" while people shout, "Run!! Run far away!" and "Out of our way!!" Rebecca and Scarlet are separated by pursuit, smoke, and fields of flowers. Scarlet tells her daughter, "Rebecca... can I leave you alone, just for a bit?" Rebecca answers that she is hungry, and Scarlet apologizes: "I'm sorry, of course you are. It's been two whole days..." She asks Rebecca to promise not to move from the spot and says, "I'll go get us something to eat..." Rebecca agrees with "Okay." The page is painful because the promise is ordinary and doomed: a child waits in a flower field while her mother leaves for food in a...