The Heart Curse

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A few minutes ago, at the Royal Palace, Doflamingo stands over the wounded Law and remarks that Law is going to be in for a rude awakening when he sees Luffy's lifeless corpse. Trebol points out that Law is still alive, while Law coughs and struggles upright beside his sword. Trebol leans into the taunt: "Hey, hey~ Law-- don't you think it's time for you to throw in the towel already?" The scene establishes that this confrontation is happening just before Luffy's arrival and that Doflamingo and Trebol believe Law is already finished.

Doflamingo tells Law that he is in way over his head and should take a nap, since it will take Straw Hat some time to get up there. He sneers that if Corazon had possessed the stomach to end the life of a former friend, Law's ass might have been saved, but Corazon was soft to the core. Doflamingo summarizes Law's life cruelly: Law was born in the white hell, his future shrouded in darkness, then met Corazon and had the time left to him lengthened. In Doflamingo's view, Law became Corazon's ghost and lived the extra years granted to him only for revenge.

Doflamingo calls Law's thirteen years "a truly meaningless 13 years" and adds, "You have my sympathy." Drawing close with a pistol, he says Law will meet his maker today, so he may as well make his end meaningful by performing the Op-Op Fruit's ultimate technique, the "Immortality Surgery," on Doflamingo before leaving the world. He presents this as a bargain and promises that, in exchange, he will grant Law's wishes. The offer is another humiliation: Doflamingo wants Law's life and power even while standing over his ruined body.

Law coughs and asks if Doflamingo will grant anything. Doflamingo says it will work to both their benefits. Law answers with the wishes he truly wants: "Right now, this moment... bring Corazon back to life. And go lick the asshole of every last citizen of this poor country. You're the one that's totally in over your head here, Doflamingo." Trebol is amused that Law talks so boldly because it smacks Doffy in the face, then muses that Doffy is going to get endless life. Doflamingo says the Straw Hat crew has nothing but miracles, and Law will never beat them or get Caesar back. Law starts to say, "Your future is the one tha-" before Doflamingo cuts him off.

Doflamingo shoots Law repeatedly, interrupting him. As Law collapses under the gunfire, the lettering on his back becomes clear: "Corazon." Trebol notices the word and asks if that is the name of Law's Heart Pirates too. Doflamingo fixes on the symbol and the implication, asking, "Just what are you trying to imply?" He snarls at Law as someone "who shall never sit on the heart seat," turning the inherited name and Law's loyalty to Corazon into another reason to punish him. Law is left bleeding, struck again and again.

Doflamingo keeps firing into Law and asks, "Why do you bear a heart on your back, Law?" Law can only murmur fragmented words: "Law... Corazon..." Doflamingo sighs, "How annoying," and frames Law's devotion as a lingering curse from Rosinante. He declares, "Your curse... dies with you today!" The gunshots and Law's fading speech close the flashback segment on Doflamingo's attempt to erase both Law and the memory of Corazon at the same time.

Back in the present at the former royal plateau, Zoro and the others begin heading down toward the city. Cavendish apologizes to King Riku for keeping him waiting and says he shall accompany him, while others insist, "We're coming too!" Zoro reminds everyone, "We've still got people to save!" Viola reports the battle situation: the Family's still-standing powerhouses have been reduced to two, Trebol and Doflamingo. The group moves with urgency because even though many officers have fallen, the central danger at the palace remains.

Viola adds that their own forces have taken a hit as well. The page cuts across the ruined battlefield and the battered palace area, showing the aftermath of the fighting and the enormous strain on the allies still trying to protect Dressrosa. The visual emphasis is on rubble, collapsing structures, and the sense that the fight has narrowed to the highest level while everyone below remains endangered. Luffy's confrontation with Doflamingo and Trebol is framed as the decisive remaining clash, but the cost to the allied side is already heavy.

Luffy reaches Doflamingo and yells, "Doflamingooo!" Doflamingo greets him coldly: "Took you long enough, Straw Hat. I released Bellamy a while back. Did he manage to find freedom?" Luffy angrily rejects the act, saying, "Quit playing dumb! I know exactly what you're up to!" The exchange ties Bellamy's earlier forced fight directly to Doflamingo's manipulation and confirms that Luffy understands Doflamingo used Bellamy's pride, loyalty, and despair as weapons against him.

Doflamingo uses his string technique, "Spider's Web!" Threads spread out and catch Luffy's attack path, gripping and blocking him. Doflamingo says Luffy knew Bellamy could never run. Trebol laughs, "Fufufu... so he chose not to run, did he?" Their words push Luffy's anger further by reducing Bellamy's painful choice to another cruel joke. The web technique shows Doflamingo controlling the field with layered strings while continuing to needle Luffy about the friends and allies he has hurt.

Luffy forces through into a counterattack and begins, "Gomu Gomu no..." He unleashes "Hawk Gatling!" in a barrage of Haki-coated blows, the punches hammering toward Doflamingo and Trebol with repeated impact lines and SFX such as "Fwish" and "Floom." The attack is furious and rapid, visually filling the page with overlapping blackened fists. Doflamingo's side is pushed by the sheer volume of strikes, but the battle remains dangerous because Doflamingo is already preparing another string response.

Luffy's attack is met by Doflamingo's counter. A translation note indicates that the kanji reads "Rough Waves White Thread." Doflamingo calls out "Break White!" and sends up a huge wave of white threads that rises like surf and crashes toward Luffy. Luffy sees the attack coming and has to react as the mass of string overwhelms the space between them. The page emphasizes Doflamingo's awakened string power as something large-scale and terrain-shaping, not merely thin threads or simple bindings.

After the clash, Luffy spots Law and shouts, "Traffy!" He notices the blood and Law's severed arm and demands to know what happened: what is this blood, what happened to your arm, and get it together. Doflamingo and Trebol tell him, "Traffy is... dead. You should be able to see that plain as day, no?" Luffy refuses it, shouting, "You're lying!" A shadowed line answers the faith Law placed in him: "That guy... he sure put a lot of faith in you..." The page twists Luffy's rage and panic together as he is forced to look at Law's apparently dead body.

Across Dressrosa, citizens see the Birdcage moving and shout warnings: "Be careful! Get back!!" "Look! They're moving... ever so slowly..." "This... cage of threads..." "It's shrinking, isn't it?" At the palace, Doflamingo tells Luffy that Law said Luffy would show them a miracle. He says Luffy does not seem like all that much based on the display back there, but tells him to come anyway because two of them are standing just for him. Luffy yells, "You bastards, I'm gonna...!" Doflamingo cuts in: "Listen closely, Straw Hat-ya... Time for this... game to end."

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