Summary:
Luffy leaves Diamante for Kyros to fight while he and Law prepare to travel to meet Doflamingo. Diamante says he won’t let them, and Kyros replies that he’s the Donquixote officer’s opponent. As Kyros says this, Luffy talks to Rebecca, happy that she met her father for the first time. Luffy prepares to leave when Rebecca asks him if he will really defeat Doflamingo. Luffy responds by telling her his real name (Rebecca previously only knew him as Lucy) and confirms her question. Diamante then gets angry at Luffy and Law and draws his sword to attack them, but Law uses Room and Shambles to make a hole in the palace wall and teleport him and Luffy inside the palace, much to Diamante’s anger. Luffy marvels at what Law just did, but the Shichibukai claims that using such power took a toll on his body, which was not in good shape due to Doflamingo shooting him with lead bullets. However, Donquijote’s servant spots them and reports to Sugar, who is desperate for revenge for lifting the Hobi Hobi curse she has placed on thousands of people. He plans to capture Luffy and Law and turn them into toys that will erase everyone’s memory of the two famous pirates.
On the Royal Plateau, Usopp tells his crew about the importance of Sugar back on the loose. He remembers how he forgot about Robin when she turned into a toy and tries desperately not to forget about Luffy as well. He’s willing to do anything at any cost to protect his captain from Sugar, but Kanjuro asks him how he’s going to do anything when he’s so far away from the palace and especially when Luffy and Sugar are inside the palace walls. Usopp replies that he has no other choice as he readies his Kabuto and is ready to fulfill his role as the straw pirate sniper by providing ranged support. Kin’emon asks if there’s any way they can help, and Riku tells Hack and Tank Lepanto to help him protect Usopp and himself from the bounty-seeking crowd that’s getting closer and closer using Kanjur’s web, but also tells them to they didn’t do that. to harm any of the people. Usopp prepares his shot with the help of Viola’s powers as the crowd reaches the top of the platform.
The mob prepares to capture Riku, Viola, Kin’emon, and Usopp and take them to Doflamingo, and Kin’emon offers his help against them. Just then, Sugar approaches Luffy and Law, the former wondering who it is. As Riku unsuccessfully tries to get the crowd to stop, Viola leads Usopp towards Luffy, Law, and Sugar’s location. Kabuto aims for the bottom of the central palace window, and as Sugar gets closer and closer to Luffy and Law, Usopp heads out, determined not to lose his captain. Usopp, not wanting to let Sugar get the upper hand, prepares to fire his Great Black Kabuto when he suddenly realizes with a shock that he can see Luffy, Law, and Sugar’s auras. As the crowd closes in on him, Usopp finally fires his Bag Star.
The crowd finally gets their hands on Usopp, but all he can think about is the trajectory of the shot. Knowing there was a slight tailwind, Usopp deployed two gunpowder boosters to help the shot go further and made sure the outer casings fell off so his shot definitely hit Sugar. However, he knew that even if it missed a bit, it would still work because the shot was meant to cause trauma. This is made clear when the shot is revealed to be a replica of the expression Usopp made when he first punched Sugar. It works and Sugar is scared unconscious again. This shocks the Quixote servants and confuses Luffy and Law as Usopp’s face projectile is absorbed into the wall and becomes a drawing, and it is revealed that the projectile was a drawing made by Kanjuro. Back at the King’s Platform, Viola congratulates the bound and beaten Usopp, and it is revealed that the mob has managed to tie up all of their targets, but Viola’s arrival shocks them. Viola confirms that Law and Luffy managed to reach Doflamingo.
Just then, Luffy and Law are facing Doflamingo and Trebol, with Bellamy lying unconscious on the ground. Shichibukai asks them why they came, and they both reply that they came to defeat him. Doflamingo seems to express disappointment at this, stating that he had hoped to meet on friendlier terms.