One Piece
Chapter 524: Nobody Can Stop It Now
CP9's Independent Report, Volume 30: "This Is Your Former Subordinate, Rob Lucci"
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[box: Like a lone flower blooming in the ocean… this island...]
Usopp: Aaagh! Help meeee!
[box: …is the Boin Archipelago, in the Grand Line.]
Heraclesun: Take this!!!
Usopp: Aaaaghhhhhh!!!
Heraclesun: Want to eat itun?
Usopp: YEAH, RIGHT!!! // …but still, thanks for saving me! Not that I know who you are...
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Heraclesun: My name is Heraclesun!!
Usopp: Wow, that's a cool name!
Heraclesun: Hmm......? Reallyun?
Usopp: My name's Usopp. Nice to meet you. // Hey... is this even edible? I've never seen a fruit like it before...
Heraclesun: Worry notun, Usoppun. And my name... // ...is Heraclesun!!
Usopp: Yeah, I got that... It's cool, okay? // Well... / I guess I'll try it...
Heraclesun: Usoppun!!
Usopp: !! // Wha? Wha?? What's this?! Did... this thing just try to eat me?!
Heraclesun: But of course... it is a "Man-Eating Plantun"...
Usopp: Man-Eating
Heraclesun: This is the Swindling Forest, "Greenstone". / If you do not wish to lose both your possessions and your life, you should take great care in these partsun...
Usopp: A - And what exactly did you just do?!!
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[box: Grand Line, Namakura Island]
People: It's…...
[box: The Land of Poverty, Harahettania]
[TN: "Hara hetta" means "I'm hungry" =p]
People: …a demon......!!! // It's true... the black magic has summoned a real demon... / What a fearsome sight...!!! // Truly, it is no creature of this world... // Our wish... may yet be granted! We will have our revenge!!! // The Tenaga Tribe are going to pay for stealing everything from us!!! // Demon King, Satan-sama!! If you grant us this wish... // Every one of us is prepared to sell you his soul!!!
Brooke: ..................
People: We have nothing left... nothing but this...!!! We beg of you, strike them down with your hammer of blood!!!
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Brooke: Exactly how far... // ...must I have flown just now............? // I must return... I have to find the others.........
People: No, Satan-sama! Please, do not return to the demon realm!! // Is the tribute we have prepared not enough?! // Do you want a sacrifice...?!! Blood...?!!
Brooke: ! // Excuse me... may I by any chance see your panties?
People: He wants panties!!! // Hurry, show him the panties he desires!!!
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[box: East Blue - The Bridgetop Country, "Tequila Wolf"]
SomeDude: …This is a country of labourers...
Robin: .........
Overseer: Keep pulling~~~~~~~~~~~!!
Labourers: HYAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH...!!!
SomeDude: All the people working here... // ...are either criminals sent from various other countries... / ...or else the citizens of countries that refused to join the World Government...
Labourer: Unghh...!!
Overseer: You useless fool!!!
SomeDude: Well... I guess you'd call them slaves.........
Robin: !!!
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Robin: And what exactly are you making?
SomeDude: A bridge. A gigantic bridge joining different islands together. / It's still far from completion.........!!! // Workers are always collapsing left, right and centre... but we're always receiving newcomers to replace them. // This bridge has been under construction for the past seven hundred years.........!!!
Robin: ?! / Seven hundred......?! // For what purpose.........?!
SomeDude: ...I don't see why I need to tell you that.........!!! / I don't know where you came from...... // But as a labourer here, all you need to do is construct the bridge!!!
Robin: ...............!!!
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[box: South Blue…]
Chopper: Ah… // Ahh... / Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh~~~~~!!! // A - A - A bird-monster...!!! // I have to run for it...!!! pant... But my body won't move...!!! // Aaahhhhh....! Stop it~~~~! Stop i~~~~~~~~~~t!!!
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Chopper: Stop - // AAAAAGHHHHHH~~~~~~~~~~~~!! // Ungh!!! // I... I'm saved...
TribeyPeople: ...... // A tanuki just fell down from the nest... // Ooh... let's make tanuki stew.
Chopper: Stop...!! I'm a reindeer!!
TribeyPeople: ...Then let's make reindeer stew! ...Huh? Did it just speak?
[box: Some call it the "Isle of Treasure"… this is the land where birds rule over men, the "Torino Kingdom".]
[TN: "Torino Oukoku" is obviously a play on "Tori no Oukoku", "Bird Kingdom"]
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[box: Grand Line…... Kuraigana Island]
[TN: "Kurai" means "dark", so go figure.]
Perona: Now, I know I said…... // ...that if I was going on a trip.........
[box: Ruins of the Shikkearu Kingdom]
Perona: …I'd like to go somewhere dark, and damp... near an old castle, engulfed in malice... // ...and spend my days singing accursed songs...... // But that doesn't mean I wanted to have NO SERVANTS!! / I didn't want to not be able to wake up in the morning on a warm, comfy bed and be served a bagel sandwich with warm cocoa!! / I didn't want to be somewhere with NO cute cuddly toys~~~!! // Waaaahhhhhh~~~! Where am I, anyway~? Moria-sama~~~~!!! I want to go back to Thriller Bark...... // ?!!
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Perona: ? // I knew it...!! Somebody else has been sent here like me!! // Agh...! // ......Th... This guy's.........!!! // One of Straw Hat's crew!!!
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Perona: Looks like he's got pretty beaten up by Kuma - he's half dead! // Hah - take that!! Horohorohoro!!
Zoro: ......... // ............I'm alive......... // Where... am I...?
Flashback!Kuma: If you are going on a trip, where would you like to go......?
Zoro: .........!!! // GUAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Perona: AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH~~~~~~!!!
Zoro: Hm? You're... What are you doing here...?
Perona: What's wrong with YOU?!! Don't suddenly scream out like that!!!
Zoro: .........Where are my swords?
Perona: Hah! Like I'd give you your weapons!!
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[box: Back in the current time-frame… their Captain, Luffy...]
[Labels: Mariejoa // Marine HQ // Impel Down // Enies Lobby // Amazon Lily]
[box: …on a quest to free his brother, Ace... // ...is sweeping over the waves towards the Great Gaol, Impel Down.]
Marine: Aaaghhhh!!!
Hancock: Let that be a lesson to you… dimwit. // My meals should weigh at least a hundred kilograms!! / Any less, and I shall not be even remotely satisfied!!! // Do you want to be petrified again?!!!
Marines: No, no, no, no!! Our - our deepest apologies!! It will not happen again!!
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Marines: Wh...... What's that?!! // An example...!! Aparently that's what happens to you... / ...if you even think of trying to peek into Hancock's room......! Scary...
Fantasy!Hancock: Luffy...... Here you go! Eat up now~!♡
Fantasy!Luffy: Man, this stuff is delicious! And being fed this meal by you... / ...just makes everything taste even better!!
Fantasy!Hancock: Oh, don't be silly now~!♡
Hancock: (W... Wouldn't that be wonderful...?!♡)
Luffy: Hey - what're you doing over in that corner?!! / Aren't you gonna eat? This Sea King Ham is crazy good stuff!!
Hancock: I...... I...... I'm all right, I'm fine, really! Somehow I feel satisfied already...
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Luffy: Whew! I'm stuffed!!! // That was soooooooo good!!!
Hancock: L... Luffy, please don't forget that you're a stowaway!
[bubbleSFX: knock knock knock!!]
Hancock: !
Marines: Hancock, is there someone else in there with you?!
Momonga: Junior Lieutenant Stalker!! Are you sure that's what you heard?!
Marines: Yeah… "Whe
Hancock: Wh...... Whew! I'm stuffed!!~!!!
Marines: SHE SAID IT
Hancock: Here - take the plates from the meal I just ate. And do not forget, I must have five meals per day of similar quantity!
Marines: THAT MUCH
Hancock: Feel free to die; I care not.
Marines: SHE'S THE WORST!! But... / .........so beautiful...!♡
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[box: Until the public execution of Portgas D Ace… // ...six days remain. // Thanks to Whitebeard's destruction of all ships observing him, // Marine Headquarters are now even more on-edge... // ...whilst at the port of Marinford... // ...powerful soldiers who have made names for themselves all over the world are arriving, one after another...]
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[box: Every last shred of military force… // ...serving under the name of "Justice"... // ...is gathering here at Marine Headquarters. // Meanwhile... at the Holy Land of Mariejoa...]
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[box: The Shichibukai who have thus far been assembled are in the middle of their own battle conference…... // Truly a gathering of villains and knaves... // ...But one thing, at least, is all too clear... // For these men to fight together as a team... // ...is entirely unthinkable...]
Garp: "Kill me", you say…? Don't get ahead of yourself, idiot...!! That won't do any good at this point... / ...Even if you were to die right here and now, that wouldn't stop Whitebeard... Nothing will stop him now.........!!
Ace: pant // pant // .................................!!! // ...We have already angered...... // ...the "Ruler of the Seas".
[insert text: War is nigh…]
EDIT: thanks to cnet128 at mangahelpers
