Summary:
On the first floor of the royal palace in the basement, Luffy and Viola escape while Zoro stays behind to fight Pica and they hurry as well as find an exit to a higher floor while the stone walls controlled by Pica try to restrict them by creating dead ends. . Viola asks Luffy if Zoro is okay after fighting Pica, and Luffy says not to worry about him, kicking the stone wall in the process. Meanwhile, Zoro is still fighting Pica as his slashes cut through his manipulated stone walls, but he doesn’t seem to be affected.
On the first floor of the royal palace, after fighting several of Doflamingo’s men, Rampo, Kabu and Thunder Soldier were captured by Gladius. Two dwarves tried to attack him to make the Thunder Soldier escape, but the officer caught them effortlessly. Gladius then attacked them with his devil fruit abilities, knocking them out with arm-ripping blasts. He then went after the Thunder Soldier, saying that he couldn’t run away like a toy. He attacked the soldier from behind and blew up the soldier’s head while explaining his abilities. Just before it exploded, Luffy threw the Gladius Jet Stamp away, saving the Thunder Soldier from certain death. Luffy was about to continue fighting the officer, but Viola pulled him away, saying that Gladius was too dangerous. When Gladius saw Viola, he screamed about her betrayal and exploded his helmet, injuring her with the helmet shards, and managed to injure Viola, forcing Luffy to carry her. Viola, Luffy, and Thunder Soldier not seeing any stairs to go further up, jumped out the window and Luffy used his leg to comfortably drag himself to the second floor outside the suit room. When they overheard Doflamingo trying to get Law to tell him what the Straw Hats’ plan was, Luffy asked if he could attack Doflamingo, but Viola refused and told him to wait while the Thunder Soldier put his faith in Usopp, to continue. plan.
After losing sight of them, Gladius encountered Kin’emon, disguised as Doflamingo with Wicca hidden in his pocket. Fooled by the disguise, Gladius informed him that Kanjuro had disappeared from the scrapyard.
At the toy house, Franky decided to stay in the toy house and fight the marines, as going with them to the underworld behind him would jeopardize Thunder Soldier’s plans. He also put his faith in Usopp.
At the underground trading port, Robin used her devil fruit powers to try to knock out the sugar with the spice the dwarves were about to use. Unfortunately, she let her guard down for a moment and Sugar touched one of her arms and turned it into a toy. As Robin wandered the trading port, she wondered where Usopp had gone and placed her hopes on him as well.
When all the dwarves were incapacitated, Leo also put his trust in Usopp. However, Usopp decided to flee the scene and angrily asked himself why Franky wasn’t coming.