B-Block

The Corrida Colosseum erupts as B-block begins. The announcer declares, "It's the battle of B-block!! The 138-man battle royale!!!!" From the stands, spectators immediately understand that someone has already formed a team: "He's formed a team!!!" and "That guy's playing dirty!!" Yet the narration refuses to call it cheating. "It would appear as though, all of a sudden, there's someone in the ring planning to make this a joint effort!!!" It is "just a matter of tactics" and "not against the rules." The mastermind is identified as coming from the Prodense Kingdom: the strategist Dagama. With a clink of his weapon and a grin, Dagama boasts, "Gamahaha!! The Mera-Mera no Mi is as good as ours! It will go to the Prodense Kingdom!!! Our king, Elizabello the Second, is a natural-born weapon of destruction!!!"

The page explains the terrifying value of Elizabello's power. The "Prodense Kingdom Fighting King" is introduced as Elizabello the Second. His tremendous punches, fired from a naturally muscled body, once left a world speechless by opening "a massive hole in a rival nation's fortress." But there is a weakness: "There's one drawback to balance out that power!! In order to release just one of those punches... he has to concentrate and warm-up for one whole hour...!!" In battle, that makes it a "one-time trump card." The announcer explains that the "King Punch" is supposedly capable of flattening even pirates such as the Yonko if it connects, but the entire result depends on punch timing. Elizabello stands there charging, each "punch" motion a promise of one catastrophic blow.

Elizabello grins and tells his strategist, "Just let me know when, Dagama!!" Dagama answers, "Understood!!" When asked, "Your majesty!! How are preparations?" the king says he is "ready to go at any time!!" Dagama orders the formation to protect him: "Let's keep thinning the numbers!! Defend the king at all costs." Fighters close ranks around Elizabello, turning the supposed free-for-all into a shield wall around the man preparing the decisive punch. Bellamy watches and asks Tank Lepanto, "You sure this is alright, Lepanto? For a squad captain of Dressrosa to be teaming up with another country's strategist?" Lepanto answers with pure pragmatism: "Fufu... money makes the world go round, Bellamy!!"

Tank Lepanto is introduced as "Dressrosa Self-Defense Army Squad Captain Tank Lepanto." He laughs off the idea of grand ideals. "Rather than big dreams... well... I prefer to collect the easy money right in front of me!!" Bellamy smiles at the answer: "Hahah! That hits a sore spot for me." Then the battle swallows them. Lepanto swings his massive chain and mace through the chaos, smashing fighters aside with "Dowa ahh!!" while Bellamy uses his spring powers nearby. The scene makes the alliance's nature clear: Dagama supplies the plan, Elizabello supplies the hidden finishing blow, and hired muscle like Lepanto buys time by crushing everyone who gets too close.

Bellamy launches into action with his spring power. He clenches and releases with "Spring...!!" as he and other fighters are driven toward the edge. Someone screams, "Wahh!! Shit, we're gonna fall!!" Bellamy laughs and strikes with "Death Knock!!" sending opponents flying. The chaos spills beyond the ring as fighters tumble into the surrounding water. The announcer calls, "Three fighters have fallen from the ring! They're disqualified!!" But the fall is not merely a loss. In the waters around the Colosseum, fighting fish surge upward, horned and hungry. The narrator warns, "But naturally, in the waters surrounding the ring...!!" The danger of B-block is therefore double: the ring is full of enemies, and the area outside the ring is no refuge at all.

The fighting fish become the Colosseum's true specialty. Spectators cheer, "Go, go!!" while someone shouts, "It's this Colosseum's specialty!" The beasts thrash through the water and hurl themselves at anyone who falls out. The description calls them a school of "little fighting fish," but the phrase is grotesquely understated: their horns, teeth, and speed turn the moat into a killing ground. Fighters scream "Aahhh" and "Gyah hhhh" as the fish attack from below, while the crowd revels in it. One voice sums up the arena's cruelty: "It's hell both in and out of the ring!! There's just no emerging from this fight unscathed!! This is Corrida Colosseum!!!" The battle royale is designed so even escape means punishment.

Elsewhere in the ring, criminals Abdullah and Jeet cut through the melee with dirty tactics. Someone recognizes them: "It's Abdullah!!" and another cry answers, "Dorah hhhhh hhh!!!" A fighter notices the trick too late: "That's... dirty...!!" Abdullah and Jeet grin over the sound of their coordinated attacks, with one taunting, "Don't turn your back to me, shihahaha!!" They strike from behind, slash, and laugh while enemies fall. Their own commentary celebrates the result as "What a lovely sound," followed by cruel cackling: "Nihihihihh!!" The page shows that B-block is not a contest of honor. It is a pit of ambushes, cheap shots, blades, and alliances where anyone expecting a fair duel is already behind.

Fishman karate master Hack enters the focus, and his opponents hurl insults at him. One fighter shouts, "Fishmen shouldn't stick their noses where they don't belong...!!" Another sneers, "You've no business entering a tournament for humans, monster!!" Hack does not answer with rage. He asks for a truer kind of combat: "At least try communicating with your fists!!" The reply is contempt: "Just a dullard with no conviction behind his words... Pitiful." When another enemy yells, "Hey, fish...!!" and moves to strike, Hack calmly catches the weapon and holds firm. The attacker panics: "Ah... it won't move!!" Hack's strength and restraint stand in sharp contrast to the chaos around him, making him one of the few fighters with a principle beneath his technique.

Hack answers with the "4000 Tile Punch!!" and sends his opponent flying. He is introduced as "Fishman Karate Master and Fishman Jujutsu User, 100th Degree Black Belt, Hack." His reason for fighting is tied to his ideals: "I suspect there also lies a path to understanding each other through the exchange of fists!! Much like how we place our hopes in my friend Jinbe... So, I fight on!!!" But the ring is merciless. As Hack speaks of conviction, Blue Gilly's long legs strike through the crowd. Fighters cry, "Owowow!! Shit, that bastard!!" while others realize the source of the damage: "It's those legs!! They're like iron whips!!" One man says, "Weaponless or not, gangly or not... what are you doing? He's just one weaponless, gangly man!!"

Blue Gilly steps into full view, calmly inviting his enemies forward: "Come a little closer!! It's no fun if you're so far away...!!" He is identified as a "Long-Leg Tribe Jao-Kun Do Fighter, Blue Gilly." His height and reach immediately warp the fight around him. Fighters shout, "He's merely a long-leg...!! So just aim for his legs!!" but another panics, "No way!! I'm not getting near him...!! Those movements!! There's no telling where the kicks will come flying from...!!" Blue Gilly smiles and repeats, "Come on now, fellows," while his opponents hesitate outside the range of his iron-whip kicks. The page establishes him as a different kind of threat from Hack: not a moralist, not a brawler, but a precise weapon built from speed, reach, and confidence.

Blue Gilly's kicks carve through the melee with impossible reach. Fighters scream "Guwa hhhh!!" and "Hyao!!" as he sends them flying. A bystander says, "There's an unfamiliar gladiator here...!!" and another, watching him stand against multiple armed opponents, says, "Oi...!!" A veteran of the arena is unsettled: "I've been a gladiator here for a long time, but... I've never seen him before!!!" Someone else asks, "That guy... he's real strong, but do you know who he is...?" The page shows how quickly B-block's unknowns become terrifying. Even seasoned gladiators cannot read Blue Gilly's origin or rhythm, and the battle royale turns into a series of sudden discoveries where reputation is no longer enough to predict danger.

Another hidden veteran appears: the former gladiator Ricky. Gladiators at Corrida Colosseum are "undergoing training with sword and shield," and one spectator says he fights "like a samurai from Wanokuni or something...!!" Someone proposes, "Let's test his skills," and another agrees, "OK!" The attack comes at him from the side, but Ricky moves with trained precision. The swords clash, and the would-be tester realizes too late that he is outmatched. Ricky answers only with cold speed and a single judgment: "Too slow..." The page names him "Former Gladiator Ricky." He is masked and unfamiliar, but his style is disciplined, old, and dangerous enough that the ring briefly narrows around the mystery of who this man used to be.

Spectators begin to wonder about Ricky. "That guy, ever seen him?" one asks, pointing out "the one with the skill mark on his cape." Another admits, "Even though he's so strong, no, I can't recall ever seeing him." An older man strains to remember: "...Wait, that is to say... I feel like... I saw him long ago... that fighting style, without a shield... His name... what was it now..." In the ring, Ricky does nothing flashy. He stands amid the chaos, while enemies ask, "What's he doing!! Does he want to die!?" and "Why's no one laying a finger on him!? Just look at him...!!" Cavendish watches from above and laughs, "Hehaha." Ricky's stillness is as threatening as Blue Gilly's motion; the crowd knows something old and unresolved has entered the fight.

In the participants' viewing area, Luffy, Rebecca, and Cavendish watch B-block unfold. Cavendish explains Bartolomeo with disgust: "The way he mocks people, it's like he's eating away at them... That's why they call him 'Bartolomeo the Cannibal.' He's also one of the cheeky kids who rose to fame after me." Luffy asks, "Hey, what was your name again?" and Cavendish answers, "I'm Cavendish." When Rebecca asks, "What have you got there, Cabbage?" Cavendish says he is "just checking on my bounty posters of the worst generation." He adds, "If I don't get new ones, pretty soon I won't be able to even see the faces on these due to all the knife marks." He cannot forgive them: "No, I can't. I'm going to kill them." Still, the arena distracts him. "At a tournament with this sort of prize... I thought at least one of them might appear..."

In the quiet of the viewing area, Don Chinjao approaches Luffy directly. "Strawhat Luffy-kun...!!" he says, shocking Luffy and the others. Then he asks a question that reaches far outside Dressrosa: "Hiyaya... by the way, how is Garp-san doing...?" Luffy stares, startled: "Eh? ...Do you know my gramps, old man?" Chinjao answers with old hatred rather than nostalgia. "A long time ago, Garp-san nearly killed me..." Luffy and Rebecca react in alarm, and Chinjao completes the threat: "I've decided to hold that grudge against even his descendants." The page ends with the new danger: Luffy has been recognized not just as a fighter, but as Garp's grandson, and Chinjao's old vendetta now points straight at him.

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