Chapter 704
“Lucy and the Statue of Kyros “
Cover Story:
“Caribou’s Kehihihihi in the New World”
“Volume 24”
“Quelling the Workers’ Rebellion”
Page 2:
Blurb: “The waiting room is going wild!!”
Someone: “Oi!! What’s up with that little guy!?”
“He took down Spartan!!!”
“But how!?”
“He’s the star gladiator of this colosseum!!”
“He… he must have just tripped over his own feet…”
“But he’s embedded into the floor!!”
Luffy: “Let’s see… where should I go…”
Guard: “You! For causing this disturbance…!!”
“Please leave immediately!! You’re disqualified!!!”
Lucy: “Ehhh!?”
Page 3:
Guard: “We don’t stand for hooligans who incite violence before the matches have even started”
“Wahh!!”
Luffy: “Hmm?”
Someone: “Hey, hey”
Xai: “Come off it, ya dumbass!!”
“The one who started it was that big oaf over there!! If anyone’s disqualified it should be him!!!”
Buu: “Although he’s already out cold”
Text boxes:
Top: “Top: Don Chinjao”
Left: “Left: Buu”
Right: “Right: Xai”
Bottom: “Hanokuni Gang: Chinjao Family”
TN: “Hanokuni = Land of Flowers”
Page 4:
Guy: “Whoa!! It’s Xai and Buu from Hanokuni!!”
“Even looks like Don Chinjao showed up!!”
“They’re already practically legends!!”
Lucy: “Thanks for that!!”
Xai: “No need for thanks!!”
“Kahkah”
“Seriously… no need to thank us…”
“It’s fine if you don’t thank us…”
“Did this guy really just thank us…”
“Thanking us is…”
“Take it back, you scum!!!”
Buu: “You don’t gotta turn down his thanks that much, bro!!!”
Lucy: “Wahh!!”
Buu: “Sorry about this. He gets excited a bit too easily”
Xai: “Don’t you ever thank us again!!!”
“Fuck you!!!”
Lucy: “All sorts of people here, huh”
Someone: “You… scheming something with strong guys in the same block!? Dagama!!!”
Page 5:
Someone: “Oi oi big names from every country are showing up, one after the other… It must be the case that…”
“They’re scrambling to obtain the devil fruit and raise the status of their homelands!!”
Bobby: “These fights are on an individual basis!!”
“Even if you try something like that…”
“Only one winner will walk away from each block…!!”
Kerry: “Conspiring to bribe your way through the event? Oi!!”
Left text: “Assassins from a neighboring country: Funk Brothers”
Right text: “Top: (Younger Brother) Bobby Funk, Bottom: (Older Brother) Kerry Funk”
Dagama: “How naïve!!! You two were also ordered here by your country, no?”
“A country in possession of the “Mera Mera no Mi” would, even with all its other weapons aside…”
“Be able to achieve unparalleled advantage in both diplomacy and war alike!!”
Sfx: *punch punch*
Right text: “Prodense Kingdom Military Strategist: Dagama”
Left text: “King of the Prodense Kingdom, “The Fighting King:” Elizaberro the Second”
“Take a look around…!! What a lineup!!!”
Page 6:
Dagama: “Over there… the A-rank war criminal from the Sea Battle of Dias…”
“It’s Neck-Chopper Slayman!!!”
“Former bounty hunters involved in the bombing of a government institution!!”
“Abdullah and Jeet!!!”
“The Made-up Massacre Adventurer!!”
“Orombus, The Ruler!!”
“On recommendation by the Donquixote Family”
“The brutal “Over 100 Million” pirate!! Bellamy the Hyena!!!”
“And although they’re not here right now, “The Nobleman Pirate, Cavendish””
“And the insane rookie from one year ago, “Balto Romeo,” are also said to be participating.”
“Think none of them are plotting anything!? I expect that even you are!!!”
Page 7:
Dagama: “The first round is a battle royale!!”
“Only those who survive it have a chance!!!”
“A-block is about to start!!!”
“Totaling A-block up with B, C, and D-blocks…”
“Out of over 550 fighters, after the first round…”
“Only four winners will emerge!!!”
“And you two… you bribed your way into the same block, yes?”
Funk: “Pure coincidence.”
Lucy: “What block am I in?”
Guard: “I believe we already informed you at the registry desk, but…”
“You’re number 556, in C-block.”
Dagama: “Our motivations may differ”
“But depending on whose hands the Mera Mera no Mi falls into…”
“Tomorrow, the world will shift a bit.”
“Without any further ado, let’s get out there and do our best, ladies and gents!!!”
Page 8:
Text: “Fighters’ Preparations Room”
Lucy: “Uohhh!!”
“So I can really use anything in here!?”
Guard: “As far as weapons, the only things prohibited are firearms.”
Lucy: “Armor!!”
“Helmets!!!”
“A statue of a half-naked old man fighter!!”
“I want it!”
“I’ll take some armor!!”
“And a cooler helmet than Old Man Statue!”
Page 9:
Lucy: “Looks good…”
“Neat…!!
“Wish Usopp and the others could see…”
Guard: “All the women are fainting!!”
“Hey, what’s wrong!?”
Woman: “It’s… that’s nobleman…<3”
Man: “Nobleman!?”
Woman: “It’s no good <3 He’s just too provocative…<3”
Someone: “Is this the equipment room?”
Man: “…Look! It’s him! It’s Cavendish…!!”
“The Nobleman Pirate!!? Is it really him!!?”
“He’s so gorgeous <3”
Someone: “Ah, you, over there!!”
“That won’t do. There’s a weight limit for one’s gear.”
Page 10:
Cavendish: “Well… it doesn’t really matter what you do…”
“Because I will be taking the Mera Mera no Mi”
“Yes, it really is suitable for me… such a beautiful power.”
Text at bottom: “Captain of the “Beautiful Pirate Crew:” Cavendish of the White Horse, Bounty: 280 Million Berries”
Middle panel: “I’ve come this far without a devil fruit”
“And without exerting too much effort”
“Just my own talent.”
Guard: “You’re over the limit”
Lucy: “Eh”
Cavendish: “Come here!!! Don’t walk away when I’m talking to you!!!”
Page 11:
Lucy: “So that’s why everyone is practically naked”
“Even that bronze statue”
Sfx: *clink*
Cavendish: “This is a show!!”
“The audience is looking to see blood”
“The ring is where the true nature of humans is brought to light”
“Who wants to see a match prolonged by swords and armor?”
“Gladiators are showmen. It is the blood of the fallen…”
“That excites the crowd…!!”
“I saw you earlier, when you flipped that large man.”
“Who are you?”
Lucy: “I’m Luffy!!”
“The man who’ll be king of the pirates”
Men: “Ehh!!?”
“Lu…”
Page 12:
“You mean LuCY!!!”
Sfx: *donk*
Lucy (bottom bubble): “Oh yeah, I’m Lucy.”
Guy: “You just said your own name wrong!!”
“For a second I thought Strawhat Luffy was here!!!”
“Yeah well that couldn’t be right. The real one is supposed to be an 8 meter tall giant”
Cavendish: “…Fu fu… if you were really Strawhat Luffy…”
“I’d kill you right here and now”
“I entered the New World three years ago…”
“And as a “beautiful rookie” with a bounty over 200 million…
“I stirred the hearts of the world”
“Day after day, my wanted posters that appeared in newspapers…”
“Would be stolen by girls everywhere, as if they were the pictures of a famous star…”
Page 13:
“I’m the Nobleman Pirate, “Cavendish of the White Horse”!!”
“ “Hey, you big star!!” “ ß(Attention Typesetter, include the extra quotes. He’s pretending to have a conversation with himself in the voice of someone else)
“ “Hmm? You mean me?” “Of course <3” “Fufufu…<3” “
“And then what, one year later!!!”
“News of Whitebeard’s “Paramount War” drowned out everything else…!!!”
“And the little rookies who sprang out after me…”
“With their “Worst Generation” name to accompany them…!!”
“Kept showing up and making such a scene!!!”
“The reporters no longer cared at all for me!!!”
“And that’s why I’d kill him! Him, and all those rookies who stole my spotlight!!!”
Lucy: “Shouldn’t you really be thanking them…?”
Cavendish: “The Mera Mera no Mi…”
“It shall be mine!!”
“And when it is…”
“Maybe you’ll stop ignoring me too!!”
Guard: “You’re good to go.”
Page 14:
Lucy: “I see… so I ended up looking like this old guy after all.”
Woman: “Want to know about him?”
Guys: “Whoa!! Is she a participant? That lady gladiator? <3”
“Hehehe<3 Looks weak… but she sure is cute<3”
“Who is she?”
“The gladiator, Rebecca”
“Thank you for what you did earlier.”
“I hate that guy, Spartan.”
“But this statue is of a legendary man.”
“He was the strongest gladiator in the history of Corrida Colosseum, “Kyros””
TN: Pronounced “Kyoo-ros”
“The undefeated winner of 3000 matches. And in all that time…”
“He only received a single wound from his enemies.”
Luffy: “That strong, huh!”
Rebecca: “I’ve heard that he was active here until 20 years ago.”
Page 15:
“But”
“No one in this country…”
“Knows who he is!!”
Text box: “Corrida Colosseum Gladiator: Rebecca”
Luffy: “Huh??”
Rebecca: “Neither the elderly nor any of the gladiators”
“Have ever met him.”
“This is the most mysterious statue in all of Dressrosa.”
“Whether the gladiator Kyros actually existed, or whether he was a mere contrivance…”
“And why this statue appeared one day…”
Page 16:
“All we know is what’s inscribed on this plate.”
“Nobody knew him… but nobody has ever tried to remove this…”
“That too, is a mystery.”
Lucy: “Wahh… I don’t know what you’re talking about…”
“But I like this statue!! It’s real manly!!”
Rebecca: “…I like it as well.”
Guy: “Yo!! Great warrior Rebecca-chan<3”
“We’re looking forward to seeing the “Undefeated Woman” today!!”
“Bet that made you feel good, before…”
“Seeing your longtime bully Spartan put to shame!!”
“Ha ha cut that out, stupid”
“It’s true, ain’t it!!”
Lucy: “What’re they talking about?”
Rebecca: “…Pay them no mind.”
Page 17:
Rebecca: “Today…”
“I’ll end it…!!!”
“I’ll win the Mera Mera no Mi…!!”
“And I’ll have my revenge on Doflamingo!!”
Lucy: “Eh!!”
“On Mingo…!?”
Rebecca: “What block are you in?”
Lucy: “ “C” “
Rebecca: “Great! I’m in “D” “
“I hope we’re both still standing at the end of the first round.”
“Lucy”
Someone: “The match is decided!!!”
Guy: “Huh!? Already!?”
“Who is that? He’s monstrously strong!!!”
Announcer: “And in the blink of an eye, it’s over!!!”
“The winner from A-block is the “Masked Man”!!! Mr. Store!!!”
Sfx: *rustle*
Page 18/19:
Announcer: “Oh!!”
“He’s taken off his mask!!!”
Sfx: *gulp*
“What a twist!!! We know this masked man!!!”
“There’s simply no way NOT to recognize this extraordinary strength!!!”
Dialogue in giant panel spanning both pages:
“What an uproar of an opening event!!! A truly unexpected participant!!!”
“From A-block!!”
“The winner of the battle royale!!”
“From the pirate crew of the Yonkou, “Blackbeard,” who silences even crying babies!!”
“Captain of the First Ship!!! It’s Jesus Burgess!!!!”
Jesus: “Uuuiiihahhahha!!!”
Blurb: “An unexpected fighter!!!”
Back to page 18, bottom panel:
Fighters: “Bu… Burgess!!?”
Page 19, bottom, continued: “Why’s he here!!?”
Lucy: “Ah!!”
“It’s that “champion” guy!!!”