King Punch!!

The aftermath of Bartolomeo's invisible defense leaves Hack defeated on the stone. The audience screams as the fish-man fighter goes down: "...!! Hack has been beaten!!" and "Kyahh." Luffy, still watching from the contestants' side, can only stare and ask, "What was that?" The announcer identifies the fallen man clearly as "Fishman Karate master, '100th Degree Black Belt Hack'!!" Even people who had supported Bartolomeo are disgusted by the result because Hack seems to have lost to something they cannot see or understand. One spectator complains, "Even though we were supporting him, he lost to that chicken-headed bastard!!" Another warns the commentator, "Gats-san, you've got to report this without bias!!" The battlefield keeps thinning while confusion spreads: "It's still hard to say who the winner will be!!" and "24 contestants remain in B-block!!" Bartolomeo's victory over Hack changes the mood from simple violence to fear of an unknown ability.

B-block continues without pause. Bartolomeo laughs at the wounded fighters and announces that the chaos has reached the right moment: "Gamahaha... Everyone's good and wounded!! ...This is the perfect time." He calls out, "Hey, Blue Gilly!?" Bellamy, seeing Bartolomeo's shameless behavior, mutters, "Such cheek..." while Bartolomeo grins and says, "Let's end this thing...!!" Blue Gilly answers with action rather than words. His long leg whips through the battlefield with a sharp "Hyao!!" and slams into a nearby opponent, scattering stone and bodies. The page shows the fighters realizing that the remaining contestants are no longer simply trading blows; some are choosing the exact moment when everyone else is damaged and exposed. Bartolomeo is openly inviting Blue Gilly to help finish the round, and Blue Gilly's kick confirms that the plan is already moving.

The announcer calls out how rapidly skilled fighters are falling: "Skilled fighters are falling, one after the other!!" Even Ricky, the mysterious gladiator, cannot ignore what is happening around him: "Even the mysterious gladiator, Ricky, won't see his ambitions come to light!!" Blue Gilly proves his ferocity as someone asks, "What did you hope to cut with a bladeless sword!?" and another shouts, "That Blue Gilly is fierce!!!" A fighter addresses him as "Mister!" but Blue Gilly's attack has already done its work. Ricky, still standing amid the dust, breathes heavily: "...Haa... haa." His hatred remains fixed elsewhere as he mutters, "Doflamingo!! I hate you...!! I hate this cheering...!!" At the edge of the ring, Dagama's plan becomes visible. He notes, "The numbers have really thinned, thanks to Dagama's plan." He tells his group, "When he gives the sign, we'll break this formation!!" and then, "Now, we just have to let the true winner..." The trap around King Elizabello is nearly ready.

Dagama's protected formation suddenly collapses from within. Fighters who were supposed to hold their positions are kicked aside, and someone shouts, "Don't lose your positions!! How were you brought down from behind!?" Blue Gilly stands in the middle of the fallen guards while the men around him cry, "Uwah hhhhh hhh!!!" and "Chyoe ahhhh hhh!!" Dagama realizes the betrayal and curses, "...!! Dagama... you!!" Blue Gilly looks down coldly and says, "I was assigned as the 'dog hunter'..." Dagama understands too late that the mercenary he trusted was hired to turn on him. Blue Gilly offers a practical excuse: "Good work, you naive dogs!!! If it's compensation you're looking for, you'll get it later!!" He has not merely helped Bartolomeo; he has dismantled Dagama's defensive wall around Elizabello, exposing the king just as his charged punch nears completion.

Blue Gilly presses the betrayal further, telling Dagama, "I'm leaving this to you, long-leg man!!" while Dagama screams back, "Dagama, you schemer!!" Elizabello's remaining guards are scattered, and one voice comments, "Hnmph!! Brainless fighters will never be more than pawns on the battlefield!!" Dagama had treated others as tools, but Blue Gilly turns that logic back on him. Bellamy watches from nearby and prepares to move, while Blue Gilly declares, "And with your back turned to me, I'll be the one to end you!!" He targets Elizabello directly, but Bellamy's spring-loaded body snaps across the ring first. A massive "Bag!!!!" marks Bellamy's hit, and Blue Gilly is struck before he can finish the king. Bellamy's rough timing stops the betrayal from deciding the block by itself, and the fight swings again.

Bellamy's blow sends Blue Gilly crashing, and the betrayed fighter cries, "Gohh...!! Bastard... you betrayed me!!! Blue Gi..." The announcer confirms the turn: "And the strategist, Dagama, is also out!!" Bellamy answers the accusation with a hard lesson: "From the very start, I knew that a fishy character like you... wasn't someone to be trusted!!" As Dagama falls, the crowd cries, "Noooo!!" and the announcer shifts attention: "Meanwhile, on the other side of the ring!!" The audience cheers Blue Gilly's earlier work with, "Nice job, long-leg man!!" and "Blue Gillyyy," even as the battlefield changes again. The page shows B-block as a chain of betrayals and counters: Dagama used fighters, Blue Gilly used Dagama, and Bellamy used the moment Blue Gilly exposed himself. No alliance in the ring is stable for more than a few seconds.

Bellamy stands battered and bleeding, and the crowd cries for him: "Our dear Bellamy!! He's on his last legs!!" and "Bellamy-sama!" His next opponent is now clear: "His opponent... it's that damn Gilly!!" Luffy watches anxiously and says, "Bellamy..." Bartolomeo also watches, grinning with the knowledge that Bellamy is suffering from the same invisible trick Hack faced. Someone realizes, "This guy... what the hell kind of... ability user is he...!?" Bartolomeo laughs, "Hehahaha," while the audience shouts, "Hey, Bellamy!! Hang in there!!" and accuses him, "You are really pissing us off, Bartolomeo!!" Another spectator summarizes the fear: "It's just like with Hack! Bellamy took damage from his own attack!!!" Bellamy has not simply been hit by an enemy; every attempt to attack Bartolomeo risks rebounding against him, turning his own power into punishment.

With Dagama out, the formation protecting Elizabello dissolves, and the remaining fighters turn their eyes to the king. One says, "Well, what now, Elizabello...?" and warns, "There's nothing as unreliable as a king out in the open..." Another fighter declares, "We've all just been itching to take your head," while Dagama, fallen but satisfied, mutters, "Dagama did well... fufu." The crowd understands the simple goal now: "All that remains is to let it fly!!" Ricky challenges the situation with the calm of a swordsman: "There's nothing as dangerous as an unsheathed blade...!! Am I wrong, brat?" Someone worries, "Something's worrying me... This King of Prodense..." Others remember the rumor: "I heard once, in the news, that he annihilated an enemy fortress with a single punch!!..." and another asks, "Don't be stupid! He must have used a weapon or something, right!?" A final voice admits, "But, on the off-chance that it's true...!!" The ring hesitates before the legend of the King Punch.

The king stands at the center of the storm, and the spectators remember the full force of his punch. "He could throw a punch powerful enough to blow away even the section of the audience in front of him!!" one says. Another looks for any explanation and finds none: "There's no way something like that could happen!!" But the pressure around Elizabello proves otherwise: "There's something unsettling in the air...!!" The announcer notes that he has kept quiet while others fought: "He's kept quiet in the middle of that formation, but..." Now the king begins to move. The page frames his preparation with a drawn-out sound, "Kinnn nng!!" and the announcement: "The king is about to make his move!!" Panic spreads instantly: "Run away!!" and "Take down Elizabello!!" Someone asks, "Was that incident from a while back really true!?" The fighters rush him, but they are already late; the stored punch is about to be released.

Blue Gilly tries to finish Elizabello before the punch can launch. He attacks with "Shooting Moon!!" and threatens, "Out of the way! I'll snap his neck!!" Bellamy, still moving on springs, laughs through his own tenacity: "Haha, let go! Don't make light of the power of springs..." while another fighter grunts, "Ugehhh-hh what a tenacious bastard!!" The chaos around the king becomes frantic. Someone shouts, "What the hell's this? Let go!!" then another notices the shift: "What's that now?" and "The Prodense King...!!" Blue Gilly cries out with "Hyao!!" as the pressure of Elizabello's charged strike becomes impossible to ignore. The page shows the last desperate attempts to stop him: a kick from Blue Gilly, Bellamy's springing body, and the remaining contestants all converging on the king at the instant before the release.

Elizabello II finally unleashes the King Punch. The page becomes a massive impact, all force and motion, with the sound of the blow stretching across the arena: "Puuuuuu uunnnnn nnch!!" Fighters are hurled away like debris, and the stone itself seems to bend under the pressure. There is little room for dialogue because the strike swallows the scene. The smaller panels around the main impact show bodies and weapons blown apart by the shockwave, the attack reaching across the battlefield rather than hitting only a single target. This is the power the rumors described: a punch that can break a fortress and erase the formation around the king. The chapter title becomes literal here, as the entire B-block contest is decided not by a duel but by one stored blow released at the right time.

The King Punch clears the arena in a vast wave of destruction. Contestants fly through the air and the ring is swallowed in smoke and cracked lines. The crowd stares from the stands as the colosseum itself seems to exhale from the force of the strike. There are almost no words, only the visual aftermath: silhouettes thrown out, rubble scattered, and the enormous circular arena left in a cloud of dust. The page emphasizes the scale of Elizabello's attack by pulling back to show the whole structure of the Corrida Colosseum. The violence inside B-block has been reduced to one result: whoever could not endure the King Punch has been removed from the field. The silence after the impact matters as much as the impact itself, because the audience and the fighters both need a moment to understand what, if anything, remains.

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.

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.

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.

The winner is named at last: "Bartolomeo!!" He stands with both arms raised in the devastated ring and screams back at the crowd, "Hehahaha!! You can all just go to hell!!" The audience answers with rage and confusion. One voice cries, "Gyahh!!" Another asks, "Ewww!! Why did he have to win!?" Luffy, watching from the side, is stunned into silence before saying, "...That weird guy won...!!" The announcer notes the consequence for the next round: "The 'Mera Mera no Mi' will definitely be going to 'that' person...!!" The chapter closes the tournament block with Bartolomeo as an ugly, unpopular, but undeniable victor. His victory is not honorable in the crowd's eyes, but it is technically complete: Hack, Bellamy, Blue Gilly, Dagama, and Elizabello have all fallen, while the barrier man remains standing.

After B-block ends, the scene shifts away from the arena to the passages inside the colosseum, near the audience seating. A small group moves discreetly while someone says, "Ok, so you're also..." and another snaps, "Keep it down!!!" The conversation turns to the deeper operation beneath Dressrosa. One person asks, "You're also plotting to destroy the factory?" and the reply is firm: "Indeed I am...!! My comrades and I have been moving along steadily with the preparations!!" Another voice offers direct action: "Just tell me where it is!! I'll bring it down in an instant!!" But that is rejected: "I can't allow that!! There are some who work in the factory who we aim to rescue!!" The plan is larger than simple destruction: "But our plan is one that could lead to the collapse of this entire country!!" The speaker continues, "If you possess the gall and the fortitude to stand against Doflamingo... I will tell you everything there is to know about this tragic country, 'Dressrosa'!!"

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