Chapter 790

Chapter 790 is titled "Heaven and Earth".

Cover Page
Straw Hat's crew in various culture’s exotic outifts

Short Summary
Luffy returns to the fight but Doflamingo still manages to pierce Luffy with his awakened strings. Luffy reactivates Gear Fourth and leaps high in the sky for his final attack. Doflamingo prepares to finish him off but Luffy adds Gear Third to the mix and send a powerful blow that crushes Doflamingo's strings and him with it.

Long Summary
As Lucy returns, the crowd goes wild.Doflamingo laughs at the theatrical entry and says he’s barely standing. But Luffy responds to him telling him so are you.Doflamingo takes the initiative, attacking Luffy with strings. He also sends some to Rebecca, but Law saves her."Oh so there you are," says Doflaminga to Law, and tells him to sit there and watch.

He turns an entire segment of the town into strings with Ever White, and converts them into a thousand “Flap Thread” string arrows.He attacks Luffy with the arrows (it looks like the arrows make up wings on his arms, and he’s flapping them together like a flamingo)Luffy tries to hold off the attacks with Haki, but it proves too much for him, and some of the arrows pierces, slamming Luffy into a wall.Doflamingo laughs saying are you sure your haki is all there yet?

Flashback to Luffy’s training, Rayleigh laughs at Luffy barely surviving an attack by a beast, and asks him what happened to that Kong Gun that you were so proud of?Luffy says the beast he fought earlier was even bigger, and his Kong Gun proved ineffective. Rayleigh tells him Gear 4 wears down your body too much, he should come up with a better solution.

Back to the fight, Doflamingo controls the beaten Luffy and makes him walk over to him.He says everyone should have been content being manipulated, and all this slaughter would have been avoided.Luffy snaps hearing this, goes into Gear 4 and rips apart the strings controlling him.Doflamingo is surprised that his strings were easily cut, but he gathers Luffy is on his last strength.

He mocks Luffy for challenging him to an air fight.Luffy yells at Doflamingo, that him wanting to control and manipulate everything in his palm makes this place suffocating.Doflamingo responds blame that on your blood, I am different from you trash humans.He tries to capture Luffy with spider nest, but Luffy goes into Gear 3 while still in Gear 4, by blowing air into his arms.Luffy readies his King Kong Gun, while Doflamingo tries to counter with God Thread. Powerful attack consisting of 16 holy threads.But that proves ineffective against the King Kong Gun, which crushes the threads and Doflamingo along with it.

“There are those who say the D's are the arch enemies of Gods….” Donquixote Doflamingo castrated.

Chapter Notes

 * Luffy is the first person to break away from Doflamingo's Parasite attack.
 * Luffy activates Gear Fourth again and combines it with Gear Third for a devastating attack.
 * This is the second time Luffy combines two gears, the first was during his battle against Gekko Moriah at Thriller Bark.
 * For the first time, Doflamingo's glasses break.