Diamante’s Bounty at 99,000,000 Berries

The Corrida Colosseum scheme Diamante runs has two separate payoffs. For years, under the same title — Hero of the Corrida — he has staged tournaments across Grand Line to scout fighters worth recruiting for the Family; Dressrosa's tournament is just another round of that same routine, dressed up bigger. The first payoff dangles what looks like Portgas D. Ace's Mera Mera no Mi in front of Luffy; the second delivers Luffy's head to Doflamingo once the bracket plays out. Neither one lands. Sabo tears the arena apart and walks off with the fruit before Diamante gets so much as a duel out of him.

He turns on Rebecca instead — the princess he watched grow up under a false name, fighting as a masked gladiator. Her father, Kyros, once captain of the royal army and ten years a enslaved gladiator himself, steps between them. Their duel is fought with thunder-blades: Kyros eventually shatters Diamante's Hangetsu Glaive and lands the finishing blow. Diamante falls backward and cracks his head on Queen Scarlett's gravestone — the deposed queen his own faction helped remove from power years earlier. That is the specific stone he goes down on, not some other one.

The Hira Hira no Mi, which flattens his body into something as pliable as a flag, never once helps him against an opponent who refuses to fight the duel he wanted. Ninety-nine million berries for the self-styled Hero of the Colosseum, knocked out on the tombstone of the woman his master helped dethrone.