Summary:
Before that, Doflamingo and Trebol overpowered Law. Doflamingo told Law that he would grant him one wish if Law performed Perpetual Youth on him. However, Law taunted Doflamingo and was shot repeatedly.
In the present, Riku gathers more people to help the citizens and Viola sees that Law has fallen. Luffy makes it back to the roof where he repeatedly attacks Doflamingo. As Luffy notices Law lying on the ground, the Birdcage begins to shrink.
As Doflamingo calls Luffy to the roof, it shows what happened a few minutes ago. Trebol used the Sticky Launcher to send Law sprawled to the edge of the roof, and he and Doflamingo stood over the badly injured Shichibukai. Trebol expressed his surprise that Law was still alive and mockingly suggested that he give up. Echoing his manager’s thoughts, Doflamingo told Law that he was sorry that everything he had done – escaping the White City, meeting Corazon, working for 13 years to take down Doflamingo, and his alliance with Luffy – was worthless. Pointing the gun at Law’s chest, Doflamingo offered him a deal: a chance to make sense of the rest of Law’s short life by performing Perpetual Youth surgery on him. In exchange, Doflamingo offered to grant any of Law’s wishes.
Law seemed to agree at first, but then asked Doflamingo to bring his dead brother Corazon back to life and submit to all the citizens of Dressrosa. Law laughed that Doflamingo’s life was a pitiful one and said that straw hats could do wonders. Doflamingo shot Law eight times in different locations, mocking the word “Corazon” on Law’s jacket. He screamed furiously that despite Law’s best efforts to imitate Corazon, the Heart’s legacy would end.
On the other side of the island, Tank Lepanto and a crowd of citizens on the King’s Plateau decide to descend on the city to help their former king, Riku. Viola confirms to Zoro and Usopp that only Doflamingo and Trebol are left standing of the enemy forces, but their own forces have also been hit.
Meanwhile, Luffy breaks through the roof of the palace, eager to fight Doflamingo. Shichibukai taunts him about Bellamy and blocks Gear Third’s strike with Spider’s Web. Luffy jumps over the web and uses Hawk Gatling to attack Doflamingo from above, but Doflamingo uses Break White to encase Luffy in string meat.
Luffy breaks out of Doflamingo’s trap, but steps on a pool of blood. Looking around, he sees Law lying on the ground. Confused, Luffy asks Law what happened, but he doesn’t respond. Doflamingo tells Luffy that Law is dead, which shocks the pirate. When the citizens of Dressrosa realize that the Birdcage is shrinking, Doflamingo mocks Law’s last words, saying it’s time for the game to end. Luffy prepares to fight but faintly hears Law’s voice telling him to listen carefully.
When Doflamingo asked Law to give him immortality, he said Law’s full name. It is unclear how Doflamingo learned the “Water” part of his name, as Law was never shown to tell Doflamingo about it on panel in the manga or on screen in the anime.
Law doesn’t give Doflamingo the middle finger like in the manga. This censorship also occurred in episode 394 when Law made the same gesture to Eustass Kid.
When Viola talks about Law’s defeat in the manga, King Riku, Tank and the citizens have already climbed down the old king’s platform.
Just before Luffy resumes his fight against Doflamingo, Shichibukai remarks that he can still regain the Ope Ope no Mi and then raises his hand in the air and closes it to start shrinking the birdcage.
When Luffy checks on Law, the front of Law’s body is not covered in as much blood as in the manga. Similar censorship was seen when Ace died.
After Doflamingo declares Law dead and before the birdcage starts to shrink, the anime adds a scene of Luffy trying to attack Doflamingo.
Before attacking Doflamingo, Luffy sets up an attack using Bellamy’s spring theme prefix.
In the manga, Doflamingo explained that the Birdcage shrunk when it began to contract, but in the anime this fact is demonstrated visually.
When Doflamingo shoots “Law” the second time and he rolls over, the Smiley tattoo on his chest is clearly visible. Yet, in a flashback to this moment in the next episode, when it’s revealed that he wasn’t actually Law, the man Law swapped with didn’t have any marks on his chest.