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Ch.459 "Can't say 'I'm sorry we've died'"
Luffy wakes up and tries to punch Franky right away.
Luffy: You bastard. My shadow….
Franky: Calm down, Moria's not here!!!
Zoro: .......
Sanji: ......
?: Hm? Where are we?....
Franky?: We're on the Sunny.
?: Sunny!? Why did we return here?....
Zoro, looks around his feet
Zoro: ...no...it's not a dream...my shadow's gone!!! ...what a strange feeling...
Luffy runs with his cheeks full.
Luffy: Ohh noooo!! This is bad!!! This is really bad!! We have nothing to eat!!!
Robin: !
Sanji: I can't believe all that food we stored is gone. They just left us with some emergency rations and took everything else.
Luffy: Cheese and Hardtack's (Sea Biscuit) is not enough!! Meat~~~!!!
Zoro: Gah, I'm sorry. I was too careless.
Luffy: We've even lost our Pirate Bento (Lunch). I don't want cheese. No to cheese.
Sanji: .....by the way....I don't seem to see Nami-san around?....
Sanji: Captured and taken away!!? Why aren't you chasing them to the ends of the earth!!?
Sanji: Where and who is this bastard?? I'll go right away and bring her back!!
Ussop: Sorry!!! But the circumstance changed so that we couldn't give chase...!! In any case, please listen to the whole story!!!
Ussop: Are you listening!? There are basically two things that we must retrieve!! Food!! and Nami!!
Luffy: and our shadows. That makes it three.
Ussop: Whoa...an unexpected item just ranked in...Let me just talk about Nami and the shadows for the present moment.
Sanji: Wha...What...did..did...you say...!!!
Sanji blazing mad and screaming
Sanji: He's marrying her~~~~!?? Don't mess with me~~~!!!
Luffy: Marrying with Nami, that guy has some guts.......and so I'm a giant eh? So that's how zombies are made.
Zoro: So that means Luffy's and that cooks zombies have been verified huh? Ussop?
Ussop and Chopper shaking with tears in their eyes
Ussop: I...I can't believe he's one of the Shichibukai's....!!
Chopper: I'm suddenly scared......!!
Franky: You guys didn't know huh?
Luffy: Hm? If zombies becomes like its shadow's owners....then Zoro, I've seen your zombie.
Zoro: How was it?
Luffy: mmmmmm...he looked similar. Although he was wearing Geta's (Japanese traditional sandals) so I knew it couldn't be you.
Zoro: ....well, I don't really care.
Zoro: So all we have to do is find those three zombies and shove salt down their throats and our shadows will return huh?
Zoro: But it's amazing you guys were able to identify their weaknesses.
Franky: Identifying their weaknesses and the idea to rescue you guys first are all that skeleton guys work.
Luffy: What!? You've met with Brooks!?
Franky: Yeah, I've met him.....I've met him and even asked a needless question...you know...when you invited him to join our crew, even I tried to deny his existence but.....that guy...even though he's a complete skeleton....when you talk to him, he got some bones to him (in Japanese, this means he has some character to him)....as expected from a skeleton.
?: .....
Franky: That guy's a real man!!!
Franky Flashback
FrankY: Hey wait up!! Since we're talking I want to ask one more....answer my question.
Franky: ....You....when you appear in front of people with that appearance...you do know how they're going to react...right?
Brooks: !?
Franky: I mean...you're a talking skeleton?.....No one's going to become friends with a creepy looking guy like you!
Franky: Any guy who looks out of the norm like you will be kicked out!!
Robin: Franky....What are you...
Brooks: .......
Franky: This is something he'll find out when and if he escapes from this Devil's Sea.
Franky: Not to mention when you couldn't get out and were in despair for a few decades, didn't you say "I was so lonely I wanted to die"? If I was you....I would have cut my life away long time ago!!
Brooks: .......
Franky: and your entire existence/body/nature is so puny/weird/cruddy....at times you act so gentlemanly to hide the truth...!!
Franky: .......what kind of promise have you made with your nakama for you to live like this!?
Brooks: Yohoho, you're a nosy littly person aren't you?
Brooks: It's a simple thing, really......long time ago...Our pirate crew left one of our nakama's at this one place....we've made a solid promise that "we will return" and we've set sail only to be annihilated at this sea without fulfilling our promise...!!
Robin: .......
Brooks: Since I'm the only one who survived on our ship, it is my duty to tell him all the things that has happened!!
Brooks: Since the day we've all passed away.....fifty years must have passed by now...
Franky: !
Franky: Fifty years!?...whoa, this is a story from way back then!? I'm not even born yet. I'm sorry to say this but even that guy must not be waiting for you anymore.....
Brooks: I do have the right to abandon our promise saying that he's not waiting for me anymore, but in a 10,000 to 1 chance, lets say that he still hasn't lost faith in our promise and is still waiting for us.......imagine the loneliness he must be feeling!? Even if the thought that we have betrayed him has crossed his mind, and yet is still waiting for us......what miserable state he must be in!!
Franky: ......you...
Brooks: The nakama we left behind at the cape where we made our promise to return, his name is....Laboon. He was a young whale and our voyage would have been too dangerous for him to bring with us....I bet he must be quite a bit bigger now......!!
Franky: Your friends a whale?
Brooks: ......that's correct. And since then I have this feeling that he still believes in us.
Brooks: He might be thinking that we would return with our usual cheerful song and with a big wave.....I don't think he will forgive us for dying irresponsibly. Our crew made a selfish promise and we can't just say, from a far away place in the skies, that we have died, we're sorry.....!!
Brooks: Because we've said as a man, that we will definitely return!!!
Franky: ......!!
Franky: ......and so for that reason he.....
Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Ussop stare in a stunned expression
Luffy: Laboon
Zoro: ........
Sanji: It's him.....
Ussop: Is that for real....
Chopper: What do you mean 'it's him'?
Luffy: .......yeah....we know him. That whale.
Flashback
Strawhats: It's not a mountain!!! It's a whale!!!
Laboon: Bwooooooooo
Franky: .....!? What!? What do you mean!?
Sanji: .....At the entrance to the "Grand Line" at "Twin Capes", there was this shitty big whale banging his head at this wall that divides the world in to two and was continually howling.
Robin: .......
Sanji: He was waiting for these pirates, his nakama, who made a promise "We will definitely return" for fifty years....there was even a report that these pirates have ran away but Laboon wouldn't accept that information and continued howling. Luffy somehow managed to stop it from it's suicidal head banging but.....he's still alive and waiting for his nakama's at that cape!!
?: ........
Ussop in tears
Ussop: .....What a story....both sides trying to fulfill their promises for fifty years....!!
Zoro: Who would have imagined that one of Laboon's nakama....is that....skeleton.
Scene changes to Brooke VS his shadow
Brooke: Ha....ha....
Shadow: Yohohoho. You've gotten stronger in the last five years. I can say the same!!
Brooke: Wah!!
Brooks dodging the shadow's katana with all his might. Brooks losing. Brooke's bone breaks.
Shadow: Our thinking is the exact same!!
Brooks: !!! Wah!!......
Shadow laughs while looking down at the fallen Brooke
Brooks: Ha.....ha.....
Shadow: As usual you have great importance to that afro...!! You can't save yourself from that huge weakness of yours..!!
Brooks: Shut up!!! Yohooooooooooo!!
Brooke attack with a big swing of his sword
Brooke: [Laboon, do you still…...remember us...? Every time I think of you....my chest squeezes with pain...even though I don't have a chest!! yohohohoho!!]
Brooke: [Our strength weren't enough in this harsh "Grand Line"…..the rest of our friends....have already passed away....]
Brooke: [And as for me…like the rest of our friends I have lost my face, my body, and everything else.....even if we do meet again...if I show up as this skeleton, you probably wouldn't be able to recognize me.]
Brooke gets hit again. With the sword in his eye socket, he dodges the sword strikes with all his might.
Brooke: Wah!! Please….please not the afro!!!
Shadow: Yohoho
Brooke: _Flashback [Laboon singing with Brooke's Violin playing]
Brooke: Uwaaaaaaagh
Brooke attacks the shadow
Brooke: _Brooke: !!!
Brooke gets stabbed with the shadow's sword, and falls
Brooke: _Franky wailing
Franky: Gaaahhhhhh!!! I love the bone and the whale. Damn it!!!
Zoro, Sanji, Ussop, holding plugging their ears
Z,S,U: You're too loud!!
Luffy: Uhaaa!! This is getting exciting!! He's a musician!! A talking skeleton!! An afro!! A yohoho!! and Laboon's friend!! I'm going to put him on this ship even if I have to drag him!! I'm going to make him part of our nakama!! You guys have any complaints!?
Robin: Fufu…if we do, would your opinion change?
Ussop: I want for both of them to meet!! To Laboon!!
Franky and Chopper in tears
Franky: I agree, damn it!!!
Chopper: Me too, you bastards!! I'm not scared of the skeleton anymore!!
Sanji getting hot
Sanji: Forget that!! We all understand!! Instead, we should focus on stopping Nami's wedding!! I'll go!!!
Zoro walks off the ship by himself.
Luffy: Zoro!! Where are you going!?
Zoro: Lets hurry up and go in. We just added another shadow to retrieve didn't we?
Luffy: Shishishishi! All right you guys!! Get ready to strike!! We're going to blow Thriller Burke away!!!
Ussop: Goooooo!!
Sanji: You too, you idiot!!
Chapter 459 FINISHED
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