I Won't Mock You

The chapter turns to another late arrival in the Colosseum. A narrator introduces the man "showing up a bit late": over the course of a single year, he has "smashed through the New World like a comet, rising to fame." The arena's attention shifts to the "crazed rookie" of "unparalleled brutality," Bartolomeo the Cannibal, captain of the Barto Club Pirate Crew, with a bounty of 150,000,000 berries. The page explains why he is hated before he even fights: he bombed and set ablaze virtuous citizens, was behind distribution of the "skewered pirate barbecue broadcast," and has become "the number one pirate wished dead by all." Bartolomeo enters like a walking insult, his reputation preceding him so thoroughly that the audience already knows him as an enemy rather than a contender.

Bartolomeo immediately proves worthy of his reputation. He screams, "The pirate, Bartolo-meo!!! I'm sending ya all to hell!!" and the crowd answers with hatred: "Get outta here!!" and "How about you go to hell instead!!" Rather than flinch, Bartolomeo turns the hostility into performance. With a filthy grin and a mocking gesture, he faces the stands, leaving spectators stunned. Someone demands, "What do you think you're doing!!" Another asks, "Eh...!? Did he really...!?" Bartolomeo only laughs, "Hehhehahaha," as if the entire Colosseum exists to be provoked. The panel does not show him making allies or even trying to win approval; it shows him deliberately making every onlooker despise him more.

The stands descend into panic and disgust. People scream, "It's a bomb!!" and "Outta the way you old coot!!" while someone shouts, "It's a full house! There's nowhere to run!!" Another voice tries to exploit the panic: "Somebody save me! I've got plenty of money if you do!" The object turns out to be only a ball rolling down the steps, but the audience is already furious. A shocked witness says, "How shameless..." The anger swells into a massive "Boooooooooo!!!" Bartolomeo stands below, unimpressed, while someone admits, "Impressive... you truly are hated, brat." His answer is contempt: "No need to be liked by a bunch of shitheads." The page makes his role clear: Bartolomeo fights the crowd before he fights the fighters.

The announcer tries to move past Bartolomeo's ugliness: "One final entrant!! The polar opposite of Nuts-olomeo!! But there's still more in B-block!!!" The Colosseum wonders, "Ohh...!! Could it be...!?" The final entrant is introduced as a man who once presented a giant pillar of gold from a far-off land and pledged absolute loyalty. The announcer says he "loves and respects our country's king, Doflamingo," and that in nations mocking Dressrosa's king as a "barbarian pirate," he has destroyed and suppressed whole cities without remorse. "Dressrosa's vengeful bullet!!" The crowd realizes what this means: "And finally, on this day, he has received an opportunity from our king!!" The figure is Bellamy, returning with a chance to prove himself before Doflamingo.

Behind the Colosseum, the medical room is already overwhelmed. Someone says, "The medical room is over there," while another adds, "We don't have enough stretchers, so those who can walk on their own should do so!" Among the wounded, a man curses, "Shit... to think that he would be participating!!" Another victim, shaking, remembers the attack: "Scary... that monster gonna kill me...!!" Someone tells him, "Get a grip! It's over! You're fine!!" The name is spoken with awe and fear: "That Champion guy... He really messed these guys up..." Then Bellamy approaches Luffy from behind. Luffy senses him and turns with "Hm?" Bellamy greets him with a casual "Oi," while Luffy, still wearing the Lucy disguise, thinks, "My eyesight ain't that bad..."

Bellamy recognizes Luffy despite the ridiculous disguise. "No matter how much you disguise yourself... I'd never forget the face of the bastard who left such a scar on my career...!!" Luffy, startled, realizes, "Oh! It's you!! The guy who caused all that trouble for old man Chestnut... Maro..." Bellamy corrects the memory enough for Luffy to place him: "Right, Bellamy!!" The page identifies him formally as "Former captain of the Bellamy Pirate Crew: Bellamy the Hyena," user of the Bane Bane no Mi, bounty 195,000,000 berries. Luffy asks, "Why're you here!?" Bellamy answers, "It's not like I live on Jaya. I'm free to go wherever I want." His return is not random; the man Luffy humiliated on Jaya now stands in Dressrosa's tournament as a changed, stronger pirate still carrying that defeat.

Bellamy reveals that he reached the sky. "Strawhat... I went to Sky Island. But I'm not the man I was back then...!! I lost my crewmates, but everything I thought I knew was shaken." Luffy is surprised, and Bellamy asks, "You went to Skypiea!? You!! You better not have laid a hand on those sky people!!" Bellamy answers, "Well..." Then he explains his purpose: "Doflamingo has been something of an idol to me since I was a kid... I don't much care about the Mera Mera no Mi... but there is a reason why I've got to win this thing...!!" Luffy realizes, "So we'll be fighting again, then!!" Bellamy says, "Anyway, I've no grudge against you anymore... In order to overcome the great wave that's coming... I will place myself on Doflamingo's ship!! I won't mock you anymore."

The announcement turns Bellamy's return into a public trial. If he triumphs in today's event, his tenacity will finally bear fruit, and he will be publicly promoted "to the rank of officer, in the Donquixote Family." The announcer declares that this opportunity is "that nominee to win the whole thing" and no other than "Bellamy the Hyena!!!! The pirate...!!" The crowd chants "Bellamy!" as he raises his arms in the ring. Luffy watches, while Rebecca asks, "What block are you in, Lucy?" Luffy begins, "I'm in..." Cavendish notices Bellamy's popularity and remarks, "He sure is popular... that guy." The chapter ties Bellamy's personal ambition to Doflamingo's organization: for him, the tournament is less about Ace's fruit and more about earning a place beside the man he worships.

The tournament board reveals C-block, with 139 participants and "impressive heavy hitters in every block." Luffy's own block includes bounty hunter Jean Ango, assassin Kelly Funk, gladiator Lucy, martial artist Sai, martial artist Boo, giant warrior Hajrudin, the Fighting Bull, boxer Ideo, former pirate Don Chinjao, and assassin Bobby Funk. The page is not a fight scene yet; it is a roster of future threats, laying out exactly who will stand in Luffy's path when C-block begins. The names matter because several have already been introduced as powerful or politically significant fighters, and the arrangement confirms that Luffy is not merely waiting for anonymous opponents. He is in a block packed with killers, martial artists, assassins, a giant warrior, and Don Chinjao himself.

The tournament board then reveals D-block, with 138 participants. The roster includes gladiator Meadows, Mummy the Shaman, the Fighting Lion, pirate Cavendish, adventurer Orlumbus, Suleiman the War Criminal, squad captain Rolling Logan, gladiator Rebecca, gladiator Acilia, and pyromaniac Damask. Like the C-block roster, this page functions as a structured warning. Rebecca is not isolated in a simple match; she is in a block with famous criminals, gladiators, and Cavendish himself. The roster also gives a clear accounting of how the Colosseum is dividing its threats: each block is packed with named contenders whose histories and reputations already suggest future clashes. D-block will be Rebecca and Cavendish's battlefield.

B-block begins with brutal simplicity. The announcer calls, "It's B-block's 138 man battle royale!!" The rules are restated: "Falling out of the ring will result in disqualification!! As will dying in the ring!!! Only one will be left standing!! And here's the starting..." The bell rings with "Bell!!" The fighters are shown in a dense roster: strategist Dagama, pirate Bellamy, squad captain Tank Lepanto, fishman fighter Hack, gladiator Ricky, criminal Abdullah, the Fighting King Elizabello the Second, criminal Jeet, pirate Bartolomeo, and fighter Blue Gilly. The arena instantly becomes a storm of bodies and weapons. B-block is not a series of duels; it is a mass collision where every faction, criminal, king, and pirate starts moving at once.

The Colosseum roars as the battle begins. Fighters clash across the entire ring, and Bellamy smiles while asking himself, "Well... who should I start with?" Around him, contestants are immediately hurled into one another. A huge fighter slams through bodies with a roar of "Uhaor ryah!!" The page is mainly motion and impact: the long shot shows the audience watching from every side, then the panels narrow to the violence of the opening exchanges. Bellamy's confidence stands out amid the chaos. Rather than being overwhelmed by the number of enemies, he treats the 138-man melee as a selection problem, deciding who to attack first while the weaker contestants are already being cleared away.

Dagama and Elizabello put their strategy into motion. Dagama asks, "Should we deal with Bellamy first!?" and the king's camp answers, "That's right!! He seems like he'll be a nuisance, so we should crush him before the numbers start thinning!!" Dagama calls out, "Dagama!!" while the formation around the Fighting King tightens. Someone realizes, "The stage is set for a fierce battle!!" The plan is simple and ruthless: use bodies like a shield. Dagama says only one survivor will be crowned winner and that all that matters is the final result. He laughs, "You can cry about how unfair we are as much as you want once you're dead, gamahaha!!" Bellamy and another fighter observe, "They're like an army unit...!!" and "Can't call this much of a battle royale."

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