The clock began to tick. Doflamingo, cornered by Law’s scheme and Luffy’s defiance, unleashed his ultimate trap: the “Birdcage.” A cage of invincible strings erupted from his palace, slowly contracting to slice the entire island into ribbons. Panic consumed Dressrosa as the real King Riku, the people’s long-dead memory, emerged to confess the truth: Doflamingo had forced him to kill his own citizens a decade ago.
But Doflamingo was a monster of a different order. He revealed his Awakening, turning the very buildings and ground into strings, skewering Luffy again and again. Luffy, pushed past exhaustion, entered his own final gambit: Gear Fourth – Boundman. A bouncing, giant form of compressed muscle and steam, he pummeled Doflamingo through the city’s crust, each Kong Gun a seismic shockwave. one piece dressrosa arc episodes
Luffy, never one for elaborate plans, did what he always does. He punched a Celestial Dragon—figuratively, this time—by entering the Colosseum under a fake name, Lucy, to win the legendary Mera Mera no Mi, Ace’s flame fruit. There, he found unlikely allies: the gladiator Rebecca (Kyros’s daughter, who refused to ever take a life), the former Donquixote executive Trafalgar Law (his sworn ally, bleeding from a brutal battle), and the ragtag fleet of pirates known as the “Straw Hat Grand Fleet,” including the masked revolutionary Sabo—Luffy’s long-lost brother—who claimed the Flame Fruit for himself. The clock began to tick
That soldier, Kyros, held the island’s darkest secret: Doflamingo’s power, the Ito Ito no Mi, allowed him to create invisible, unbreakable strings. With them, he had turned countless citizens into toys and erased all memory of their existence from their loved ones. For a decade, the tyrant had ruled as a hero, while a silent army of forgotten toys toiled in his underground SMILE factory, manufacturing artificial Zoan devil fruits for the underworld. But Doflamingo was a monster of a different order