@NateRich:

We can be sick bastards together

you guys are so hardcore!!!

@King:

Bartolomeo is a goddamn parody of the OP fanbase.

Watch him start a power level discussion with somebody else next chapter.

hahaha, that's so true :D

great chapter, i just love this arc so much. it's definitly one of the best by now. and at the end, maybe the best. there is so much going on!

well, maybe she doesn't know that he is that particular person? maybe it's the same as the scene with wanpoco, where he plays with his family just to be near them. he is friends with rebecca and recognizes her, but she doesn't know he's her boyfriend/father/whatever and he became friends with her wothout telling her the truth. her crying is just due to the fact that she's missing her beloved ones and entered the tournament to revenge/save them. or maybe he told her and she believes him, despite the fact that she can't remember. or it's something like "the bond between them is extraordinary strong and a df ability can't break it" or something along those lines.

@DARK_RITUAL:

Huh? Huh? What beard? I don't see any beard, Luffys face is not even showing so how you see a beard?

if you look very closely, you can see a piece of his beard. a little white spot surrounded by a black line right under his helmet. as we see luffy from above, this has to be a piece of his fakebeard. at least that's what i'm assuming.

@A:

I wonder what is in Bartolomeo's suitcase with all the warning labels….............meh, probably nothing special.

maybe

@RKTGX95:

i think that this is Oda's way of blowing Luffy's cover publicly, which is both a great funny way and kinda makes sense since after he wins C block we wouldn't really need his cover that much.

nope, on the next page you can see his beard again when he's in midair.

http://img.batoto.net/comics/2013/07/09/o/read51dc2ccaf3004/img000018.png

@Al!naJames:

Thanks for your kind words and I didn't include it in purpose :P It… bothers me, for some reason. I guess it would cover up his smile too.

than again, you also didn't draw the whole armor, so i guess you could see the helmet and the cape as a hint for the arc, but the pic works better without the whole thing. or something like that ;D

And of course it is indeed an awesome pic! thanks for the effort!

http://www.mangapanda.com/naruto/635/18

is this tsunades lower body? and why does it suddenly stand infront of the others? she was with orochimaru first, wasn't she? can her lower body teleport itself to others? that would be a nice feature.

@Gliblord:

One wonders what the hell Garp did? I mean it's not like Chinjao's got scars or something

Am I mistaking or didn't we see the lower half of his body yet?

@Jackermeister:

After everything we've found out about Dofla, it wouldn't surprise me if he was/is doing business with three of the Yonko. And you pointed out a good connection between him and Big Mom. There's also this thing:

! http://i29.mangapanda.com/one-piece/234/one-piece-1691475.jpgLook at the medicine bottle. Looks like Dofla's smiley face. (I can't take full credit for this one. Someone else noticed this and had a theory about Dofla poisoning WB. Dunno about that, but it looks like he could've been the one providing WB with his medicine.)

I like this one very much. After re-reading OP for the past few weeks, i also noticed the smiley on the bottle. i'm sure that there will be a connection of some sort between WB and Dofla. I think that it could also be possible that it wasn't poisonous. WB just needed a sort of medicine and i doubt that a man like WB with his power and influence would't notice Doflas attempt. apart from the fact that Dofla is a shady character from the SHs point of view (and naturally from the readers point of view), he could just be doing his business. on the other hand, Dofla's a crafty person and we will still have to find out what his main motivations are. hopefully in the dressrosa arc. when we find out about his past, some questions will definitely be answered.

Keep up the good work. I like your thread and your posts generally.