Chapter 522: “A Fatal Disease”
CP9’s Independent Report, Vol. 28: “We Won’t Let You Disturb Our Home”
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Hancock: Your name is Luffy, yes…? We will depart in the morn. / The Kuja Pirate will see you as far as the Shabondy Archipelago. // Tonight, I suggest you rest in preparation for the long journey.
Luffy: Like I said, you guys… // It’s “Ku”!!! “Ku”!!
Kuja: Oh, that’s funny, Luffy~~~~!!
Sweetpea: “Ku”?!
Luffy: Yeah, “Ku”!!
Daisy: I see! “Ku”!!
Kikyou: Such an undignified dance…
ThatOneKuja: So “men” stick chopsticks in their nose and mouth… and dance with strainers………
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Luffy: Hmm? “Gorgon-what”?!
CookKuja: It’s a “Penne Gorgonzola with Sea King” - it’s a specialty of the Isle of Women!
Kuja: Wow~~! He really does stretch!?
Luffy: !
Kuja: Yes, yes, that’s enough. // Awww… one more go! // No, no… you’ll never want to stop.
Luffy: ……!! / Man, this Sea King stuff is tasty…… // Ahh, stop that already!! How am I meant to eat with people poking me and stretching me!
ThatOneKuja: Well, it can’t really be helped… you’re leaving tomorrow, aren’t you?! // Everybody wants to take this opportunity to experience a real live “man”… // See - you’re so popular!
[Sign: 1 Touch / 20 Gol]
Kuja: Luffy-sama~~!?
Luffy: Stop making a business out of me!!!
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Kuja: Aww, c’mon, Luffy-cha~~~n!? // Let us have a touch~~~!? // Let us have a poke~~~~!?
Luffy: Quit it!! I can’t eat with all this… / Hey!!!
Kuja: Aaahhhhh, Luffy-sama~~~~!?
Luffy: Guaaaaahhhhhh~~~~~!
Kuja: Huh? // Noooo! He got away!! // I didn’t get to touch him yet~~!
Luffy: *pant*… *pant*…
Margaret: (We’d better hide…!!)
Kuja: He must still be somewhere nearby!! We have to find him and touch him~~~~!!
Luffy: Awww… I could only carry this much food…
Margaret: ………Still, you must be glad. You’re going back to your friends, just like you wanted.
Luffy: Hm? Yeah… I’m sorry for all the trouble I’ve been making for you. // I mean, I was real scared when you got turned to stone…
Margaret: But then you protected us, didn’t you? I’ve heard all about it. // Thank you, Luffy!
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Nyon: What is it nyow, Margaret?
Margaret: Well, Luffy’s got a little too popular with the women of the village………
Luffy: Ahh!! Old bean lady!!
Nyon: Well, meeting a man is a rare experience for them… you should probably stay out of sight for the moment. // And who are you calling a “bean”?!!! // It looks like you already have food… Margaret, make the boy some tea.
Margaret: Right!
Luffy: You sure do like newspapers, huh~?
Nyon: They’re nyot too easy to get hold of out here, you knyow… The Nyews Coo don’t deliver to the Calm Belt… // But our Empress is a Shichibukai, after all… / It would hardly do for her nyot to knyow the state of world affairs.
Luffy: A Shichibukai?? Who??
Nyon: Hmm? / Hebihime, of course…
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Luffy: Whaaaaaaaaaaa~~~~~~??!! // ……………… / She’s……?!! A Shichibukai?! Then… is she actually really, really strong?!
Nyon: …You’re a pirate, and you didn’t even knyow that?
Luffy: N… No, I didn’t…
Nyon: Do you nyot read nyewspapers, then?
Luffy: No… I don’t… // Man… this is a surprise…
Nyon: It was eleven years ago nyow that Hebihime became the Empress of this land and Captain of the Kuja Pirates… // She was still young back then, but after a single campaign… / …she earned herself a bounty of 80,000,000. // Together with the already-infamous name of the Kuja, this earned her the immediate attention of Central… // They approached her right away, cautious of her potential, and offered her the position of Shichibukai… // But now, she is in danger of losing that title…
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Luffy: WHAAAAAAAAAAA~~~~?!! // Wh - Wh - Wh - Whoa, whoa, slow down! I can’t take in all this at once! // You’re saying the Shichibukai and Marine HQ…… / …are going to battle against the Whitebeard Pirates?!! // That’s crazy! What’s going to happen now?!!
Nyon: You really do shock me… there are limits to ignorance, you knyow!! Nyothing is certain just yet, of course… // …but in all probability, yes, battle is imminent!!! // It was the World Government who brought about this situation… Whitebeard is nyot a man who would ever allow the death of a nakama. // Yet in full awareness of this… // The World Government have announced the public execution… // …of Whitebeard’s elite subordinate, Portgas D Ace…!!!
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Luffy: ……!! …Who?
Nyon: Ace……… “Fire-Fist Ace”.
Margaret: ………What’s wrong?
Luffy: Ace is going to be executed?!
Nyon: Yes, it seems that a pirate named “Blackbeard”… / …captured “Fire-Fist Ace” for the Government…
Luffy: Blackbeard………
Nyon: And insodoing earned himself a place in the Shichibukai… // Having suddenly come into possession of such a major prize, it seems that Central have decided… // …to make use of this “Ace” pirate…
Luffy: Old lady……!! Old lady… // That’s my brother………!!! // Ace is my big brother!!!
Nyon: ?!!
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Nyon: ………What……?!!!
Margaret: ……………?!
Nyon: Is this true?! He is your elder brother?!
Luffy: I didn’t even know he’d been captured… and now he’s being executed?!! / There’s no running from a thing like that…!!
Nyon: …Hmmmm! If Whitebeard prevails in this battle… // …it is possible that he may still be saved…
Luffy: What do I do…?!! Where are they holding this execution?!
Nyon: Mmm… it says here that the location is to be the plaza of Mariejoa, home of Marine Headquarters… / …in “one week’s time” - so from today, that would be six days.
Luffy: What~?!! But that’s so soon!!! // How long does it take to get from here to the Shabondy Archipelago?!!
Nyon: ……Well, it would doubtless take longer than a week…
Luffy: …But then before I even meet up with my crew… / …it’s all going to be over for Ace!!
Margaret: ………
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Luffy: ……How long would it take to get to Ace from here, then?
Nyon: To Impel Down, where he is currently imprisoned…… it would take a week by pirate ship… or four days by Marine vessel…!!
Luffy: Why? Are the Marine ships that much faster?!
Nyon: There are certain currents set aside exclusively for Marine usage……
[Top label: Marine HQ / (Marinford)]
[Top X label: Shabondy Archipelago]
[Right label: Great Gaol / Impel Down]
[Bottom-left label: Enies Lobby]
[Bottom X box label: Current location]
[Bottom X label: Amazon Lily]
Nyon: Enies Lobby… / Impel Down… / And Marine Headquarters. // A mighty spiral current has been harnessed to connect these three organisations. / By opening the “Gates of Justice”, gigantic gates present at all three locations… // …the currents can be caused to rush in, allowing access to these three locations. // In other words, if the gates are not open, a ship caught in the current would simply sweep straight on by.
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Nyon: As such, a pirate ship would be forced to avoid the whirlpool currents… // …taking the longer route around…!!!
Luffy: What am I meant to do………?!!
Nyon: What do you wish to do?
Luffy: ……………………!!!
Nyon: Is that… your brother’s Vivre Card?!
Margaret: …Is that the moving paper that was so important to you?
Luffy: No, this is a different one. It’s Ace’s.
Nyon: Also known as the “Paper of Life”… a Vivre Card indicates the direction and life-force of its owner.
Margaret: ………!! …Then… the reason it’s so small…
Luffy: It was about ten times this size when I first got it.
Margaret: !!
Luffy: Ace has his own adventure to follow!! / And my brother’s a strong guy… if I said I wanted to save him… he’d only get mad at me.
Flashback!Ace: Y’know, when a guy has a messed-up little brother……… // …it’s only natural to worry about him.
Luffy: …But…
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Luffy: I’m sorry, guys…!!! ………!! // I’m going to have to take a bit of a detour!!! // I want to go and save Ace!!!
Nyon: ……!! // You are aware, I hope… / …of just how reckless an endeavour that would be… just what kind of scale of war this is? // You would be as an ant leaping into a raging storm…!! / You may well simply be flung around, unable to do a thing, until you meet your own end…
Luffy: I don’t care about any of that! I want to go!!! / …I can’t just sit around somewhere doing nothing while a thing like this is going on!!!
Nyon: Very well………!! So you wish to save a prisoner with the eyes of the entire world upon him…
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Nyon: ………And to have even the most miniscule chance of achieving this goal… / …you must head, without delay, to the Great Gaol where he is currently held prisoner… // If you wait until he is transferred to the execution ground in Marinford, then the Marine Admirals, as well as the Shichibukai… / …will be present to guard him… // …Although naturally, since your brother is currently the single most important prisoner in the world… / …even at the Gaol itself, he will doubtless be guarded by an extremely powerful force… // Why, even entering the place should be impossible.
Luffy: Forget what I do once I arrive - the important thing is how I get there!! / I have to get to the gaol while Ace is still there…!!! // If you’ve got a gigantic oar or something… I could row with all my strength……
Nyon: Wait, wait… this is nyot a problem that can be solved with brute force… / It is still something of a long shot, but… / The call for the Shichibukai to assemble, which Hebihime has thus far been obstinately rejecting… / If she were instead to respond to it… // …she may be able to take advantage of the situation to get you onto a Marine battleship.
Luffy: A battleship?! You’ve got a Marine ship I could use?! // Then I’ll go and ask her, right away!!!
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[Text: Amazon Lily, Kuja Castle]
Enishida: Elder Nyon!!
Nyon: What is it, Enishida…?
Enishida: Thank goodness! I was just about to go and call for you…
Nyon: Hmm? What has happened, exactly……?
Enishida: Well……!! / *pant* / Hebihime-sama seems to have collapsed…
Nyon/Luffy: ?!!
Enishida: …from an unidentified disease…………!!!
Nyon/Luffy: Whaaaaaaat?!! At a time like this?!!
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Sandersonia: Hang in there, Sister……!!
Hancock: ……………!! / *pant* // *pant*
Marigold: Sister……!! // Ahh… Elder Nyon……!!
Nyon: Boy - you wait outside for a moment……!!
Luffy: Sure… but I’m really in a hurry here -
Nyon: I am aware of that!!!
Hancock: *pant*… / *pant*… // The pain……!!!
Belladonna: She has been clutching her chest all this time, so I think it may be a problem with her heart…!! // But honestly, I simply don’t know… I’ve never seen symptoms like these before…… / I have no idea what medicine to prescribe…!!
Enishida: Hebihime-sama looks like she’s in so much pain…………!! // She won’t even eat any of the food we give her…
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Nyon: ……… // Tomorrow morning… // !!
Hancock: Aaahhh!!
Belladonna: Hebihime-sama?!!
Nyon: ……!! Of course… // ……Ahh, to think that this could……!! // …This virus… it always strikes at the least appropriate of times…!!!
Enishida: What?! A virus?!
Belladonna: Do you have some kind of idea what this is?!
Hancock: ……E… Elder Nyon… it hurts…… / *pant* // Am I……… / *pant* // …going to die………………?
Nyon: ……… // Yes… you will…
Marigold: Wha… // What are you saying?!!! Elder Nyon, this is no time for bad jokes!!
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Nyon: It was of this disease… that the previous Empress died………!! / And as far as I am aware, it was the same for her predecessor………
People: ?!!
Nyon: In truth, even I fled this island thanks to this very same disease… though I managed to survive it…
People: ……………?!
Nyon: We have a request to make of you. Will you at least hear me out?
Hancock: ………!!
Sandersonia: Now, wait one moment, Elder Nyon!! She is in no condition to be…!!
Nyon: It matters nyot……!! May I ask you all… to leave the room?
People: What?! But - !
Nyon: (…What incredible fortune!! Monkey D Luffy… have you actually managed to shift this mountain that no other could budge?!!)
Hancock: So what is it you wish of me…… Luffy?
Luffy: Well… / I kind of need a favour. But are you sure you’re okay, with your sickness and all?
Hancock: As though I would allow a mere disease to overcome me……!!
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Sisters: ………!!
Luffy: Well, the pirate from Whitebeard’s crew who’s going to be executed… / …he’s called Ace… / …is actually my brother!! I really want to save him!!! // But a pirate ship won’t make it in time… // Please!! Would you board the Marine ship that’s here to pick you up… / …and take me to the Gaol where Ace is being held captive?!!!
Sisters: ?!! / What ridiculous nonsense is this?!!! Straw Hat Luffy…!!! / Even after hearing about the hardships our Sister has been through… / …you ask her to return to that accursed “holy” land?! / You are truly terrible!!! // Show a man a little sympathy, and he will try to squeeze anything and everything he can out of it…!!! // There is a limit to how much our Sister will put up with, you know!!/ She'll make you into stone and drop you fr0m the edge of the castle// Do it, Sister!!!
Hancock: You want me……… / …to respond to the call for the Shichibukai…? // If that is your request…
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Hancock: Then I… // …shall go wherever you may wish.
Luffy: All right!!! Thank you!!! // Now I can make it there before the execution!!!
Sisters: !!! / H…!! // Hebihime… actually agreed to go to Central!!! // What on Earth is going on, Elder Nyon?!!!
Nyon: Hebihime’s disease…… is lovesickness!!! / Yes…… it was love that killed her predecessors!!! // It is just as they say in the East… // “Love… is always a hurricane!!!”
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:terror2:η πιο ομορφη γυναικα στον onepiece-κοσμο μ'αυτον
...Τι να πείς....Πιστεύετε ότι ο Kuma έστειλε τον Luffy επίτηδες εκεί???.....
:nod:
