The Forgotten of Dressrosa

Chapter 717, "The Forgotten of Dressrosa," opens with the Corrida Colosseum in a frenzy: "Fierce battle!! The white-hot colosseum!!" The announcer reflects on the aftermath of the clash between Luffy and Don Chinjao, saying all those big names have been beaten down by these two men's colliding wills. Chinjao had looked unable to fight, but now he stands before Luffy and laughs, "Hiyahoho, seeing that you wield Conqueror's Haki... just what do you dream of becoming king of...?!" Luffy answers with no hesitation: "King of the Pirates!" Chinjao demands to know what world they are seeing here, turning the arena into a stage for a clash of ambitions rather than a simple tournament bout.

Chinjao hears Luffy's answer and judges the scale of his ambition. He says, "What drive!! Those possessing the 'disposition of a king'... know that they are commonplace in the seas ahead." He warns that everything will be determined further ahead, at the summit where conquerors are the only thing holding one another back. Then he slams the point into Luffy: "There is your 'Pirate King'!!!" The impact of his words and attack shakes the arena. Luffy recognizes the name behind the kind of Haki Chinjao refers to and shouts, "Rayleigh!!" Chinjao asks, "From whom did you learn that Haki?" and when he hears the answer, he realizes, "...So he's still alive."

Chinjao's rage breaks into grief. As he strikes at Luffy, he cries, "It pains me to hear that!!!" Luffy answers, "I don't wish to recall the past!!!" but Chinjao cannot let the past go. He asks Luffy to answer him, even though he had thought he could forget, and calls his lost treasure "a treasure that lays right before ones eyes...!!" yet cannot be reached. He shouts, "Is there any other hell such as this!?" The crowd sees the legendary pirate crying and wonders, "What's this!? That legendary pirate... is crying?!" Chinjao's revenge is not abstract pride; it is the pain of a fortune he could see but never again obtain after Garp changed his body and fate.

Sai watches his grandfather's breakdown and admits, "My training was also lacking... when he gets like this... nobody can stop grandpa there...!!" He had thought they had decided to carry big brother to victory, but Chinjao has taken over the battle with old rage. Luffy asks what Garp did to him, and Chinjao answers, "I was once called that, but no longer! 'Chinjao the Auger'!" He demands, "Answer me!! What did Garp do to me!?" Luffy can only say, "I have no idea! Whether you're gonna cry or get mad, just go ahead and do it!!" The crowd cheers "Go, Lucy!!" while others call "Luffy-dono..." from the stands, watching a personal feud force itself into the tournament.

Outside the ring, Sanji and Kin'emon push through Dressrosa while the Marine presence tightens around the colosseum. Kin'emon says, "Sanji-dono, I must hurry to the 'Toy House' to rescue Kanjuro, that I must." Sanji answers, "Yeah, I want to, too, but just hold on." He sees the emergency situation: "Just look how many Marines have surrounded the colosseum!!" Pirates and criminals have entered the tournament with no trouble, so the Marines have shown up to catch them. Sanji is irritated when Kin'emon forgets that he has also been riding on a pirate ship. Sanji wants to inform Luffy about the situation, but the fighters' entrance has been heavily blockaded, leaving him no clean route in.

At the colosseum entrance, Vice Admiral Bastille and the Marines notice that something is wrong inside. Bastille says there should already be hundreds of losers from A and B Blocks, yet not even one has emerged. The Marines also have not heard from Vice Admiral Maynard, who infiltrated as a contestant. One Marine calls Maynard a brat doing as he pleases, but Bastille focuses on the larger pattern: "Something must be happening... inside that colosseum..." The page introduces him as Marine Headquarters Vice Admiral "Shark Cutter" Bastille. The Marines expected to catch defeated fighters as they left, but the colosseum is swallowing the losers instead, and the absence itself becomes a clue.

Bastille explains the strangeness of Dressrosa. Ever since Doflamingo took the throne ten years ago, there have been two heavily enforced laws. The first is a midnight curfew: no one is permitted outside after then, not even adults. Nobody is out and about late at night; the shops are not open, and people cannot even go drinking. The second law is that under no circumstances may a toy enter a human residence. At night, humans return to their own houses while toys go to the Toy House. These laws sound almost childish on the surface, but Bastille's explanation makes them ominous: the entire country has been trained to separate humans from toys at the most important hours.

A Marine asks whether even that sort of thing is forbidden, and another says it looks like everyone gets along so well with toys. Bastille questions the arrangement more deeply: "Just what exactly are you toys in the first place??" He wonders if such a sad division between living organisms and man-made things is inevitable, but then rejects passive acceptance: he has already gotten used to it, but forget that. Bastille turns to a toy soldier and asks the essential question: "Who's the Vegapunk-level technician who produced you?" The toy soldier answers in a way that makes the mystery worse: "You have will, and you can speak!!" The toys are not normal machines, and the Marines do not understand what they are.

The hidden horror of Dressrosa erupts in public. A toy cries, "This toy is broken!! It's got 'human disease'!!" but the toy insists, "No, that's not it, just listen, Esther!! It's me!!" Another person screams, "Someone, get the authorities!!" The toy begs, "Please remember me!!!" and then "No, release me!! I'm a human!!!" Yet the woman and child who once knew him recoil in fear. The girl says, "You mustn't be with that man!" while the toy shouts, "Esther! I'm your boyfriend!!" Soldiers drag him away as he pleads to be remembered. The page reveals the true cruelty: the toys remember being human, but the humans around them have forgotten them completely.

The toy is taken to a building marked "SCRAP," while Bastille continues observing. Nearby, a child happily calls, "Kyahaha, let me ride, Wanpoco!!" and the dog-like toy answers, "No waywoof! You're too heavy now, woo-woof!!" When Bastille asks him to come over, the toy is surrounded by a family. A woman says, "And that woman's husband... my name is 'Milo,' not 'Wanpoco'." The toy explains the family relation: "I'm that boy's father..." but the boy only asks, "Who are you?" The woman reassures the child, "Don't worry, he's also a toy." Bastille sees another case of the same phenomenon: the toy knows his human life, while his own wife and child live beside him without remembering him.

The family continues as though the toy's human identity means nothing. The boy asks, "Boy, where's your father?" and the woman answers that she does not have a husband, she is not married, and that it is not all too uncommon. Bastille grows troubled, asking, "What's going on!?" and "Hey soldier, what're you trying to show me here?" The soldier frames the country in one phrase: "In short, in this country... there are the forgotten ones..." The line explains the title of the chapter. Dressrosa is not merely a land where toys live among humans; it is a place where transformed humans are erased from the memories of the people who loved them.

The toy soldier completes the truth: there are the forgotten ones, "and those who have forgotten...!!!" He says, "We toys were once human!!" One of the people Doflamingo brought with him ten years ago was an ability user who turned them all into toys. Bastille and the Marines are stunned: "Eh!?" The soldier then points toward the Flower Hill, saying they can see the Flower Fields from there and that he will explain everything. The revelation connects Doflamingo's reign, the curfew, the Toy House, and the living toys into one system. The country is built on an ability that turns people into toys while erasing them from human memory.

The scene returns to Green Bit, where Law is being battered by Doflamingo and Fujitora's side of the conflict. Doflamingo laughs, "Fufufu!! No mercy, huh!!" as Law struggles under the force of the attack. Fujitora comments, "How clumsy." Law is injured and still trying to communicate, saying, "I'm sure I've got the right number!" while the Den Den Mushi rings uselessly: "Purururu!" He gasps, "Haa... haa... why isn't Nami-ya picking up?!" The page links back to the Sunny's crisis: Law is depending on the crew aboard the ship, but they are unreachable because Jora has already disrupted them. Law is isolated on Green Bit when he most needs the plan to keep moving.

Underneath Green Bit, in the Tontatta Kingdom, the dwarves prepare to move. Usopp claims the shaking is his Haki again: "It's Usoland's Haki!!" and the dwarves cheer, "Lwah! Lwah!" One worker struggles with a cabinet and says, "If I don't restrain it, this cabinet's gonna fall." Another calls, "You all ready to go Leo? Don't forget your lunch box." Leo hears that food is already prepared at headquarters and says, "This should be good." The dwarves' faith in Usopp only grows: "That's right! Because he's the legendary hero, Usoland!!" They believe he will not fall over because even if he can do that, a true hero must have a reason. Usopp's lie has become the morale of their entire operation.

Usopp and Robin are addressed as "Usoland" and "Robiland," and someone asks whether they have eaten their fill. Usopp nervously says he is stuffed, then continues strengthening the legend he invented: "That is to say, I've fortified myself for battle!!" He claims, "I caused the very earth to shake!!" and explains that they saw it earlier while trembling with excitement. The dwarves are overwhelmed, praising, "Uohhh his power is immeasurable." Usopp then asks Leo why exactly they are going up against Doflamingo if this is a decisive battle. The question is practical, but dangerous for Usopp: he has been treated as a hero without yet understanding the true reason the Tontatta are ready for war.

Leo answers that they are going to save five hundred of their people, who are being forced to work in the "dark factory." The dwarves laugh that the hero is a skilled jokester as well, but Usopp and Robin focus on the key information. Robin asks, "This factory... is it the smile factory...?" Leo says it is the one Luffy went to destroy. They do not know what is being made there, but in that factory is the Tontatta tribe's short-tempered princess, Manshelly. One dwarf calls her hateful, selfish, and mean-spirited, then immediately brightens and says, "She's one of us!!!" The emotional priority becomes clear: the factory matters not only because of Doflamingo's weapons, but because their people and princess are trapped inside.

Leo explains that Donquixote Family members in the palace have started moving and are probably heading for the colosseum. Kabu's "Yellow Kabu" and Bian's "Pink Bee" are ready to fly, and the group prepares to go. Usopp, still terrified, hears that Noland helped anyone who was in trouble and realizes the dwarves expect him to do the same: "Ah!! That's what a true hero does!! And I'm the same way!!!" The final reveal ties the operation to Luffy's location: their battle is on Dressrosa, in the basement of the colosseum, at the "Dark Factory." The dwarves are shocked that such a place is right below where Luffy is fighting, while Leo points toward the battlefield and declares the true target of their mission.

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