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Chapter 583: Grey Terminal
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[Insert text: Luffy, entrusted to the bandit Dadan!]
Luffy: I… // ...can't stand bandits!!
Dadan: I suggest you shut yer trap, you damn brat!! We sure as hell don't want to be stuck with the likes of you either!! // If you wanna get outta here, then go ahead!! Run off somewhere and get yourself killed, why don't you!!
Bandits: Now, now, Boss…
Luffy: And this isn't enough to eat!! I want some of that meat too!!
Dadan: I'll have you know this is buffalo meat that young Ace over there caught for us!! He lets us share his spoils, so he gets to eat at our table!! Us bandits don't live easy, you know!! / An' starting tomorrow, you're gonna be getting down to some proper hard work too!! Sweeping, cleaning, shoe-shining and weapon polishing! Theft, looting, swindling, murder!!! // And let's make this clear... you're not go go blabbing to that old fool Garp about the stuff we make you do!!
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Dadan: One bowl of rice a day, and one cup of water!! / That's all I'm giving you, got that? // The rest, you'll have to find yourself!! / So deal with it!!
Luffy: All right.
Dadan: What kind of reaction is that?!!! Aren't you gonna start cryin' or anything?!!!
Luffy: Well, Gramps has thrown me out into the jungle before... / ...so if this is a forest, I'll be able to find plenty of worms, frogs, snakes, mushrooms and stuff to eat. / Besides, I'm gonna be a pirate one day!! I've gotta be able to deal with this kind of stuff!!
Luffy: Hey... where's he going?
Dadan: Where do you think you're going?!!! / …And what was that about pirates?!! // You see?! He's a bloody law unto himself already!!! I knew Garp's grandson would be nothing but bad news!!!
Bandits: Now, now, Boss...
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Ace: .........
Luffy: Hey~!! My name's Luffy!! / I'm not mad about you spitting at me any more!!
Ace: .........
Flashback!Luffy: Why are you standing there grinning?!! That was so uncool!!
Flashback!Shanks: All they did was throw a little booze on me. Why would I get mad over a little thing like that?
Luffy: I'm not gonna get mad over a little thing like that!! Let's be friends!!
Ace: .........
Luffy: Are you going somewhere~~~?! // Hm? // Aaaaaghhhhhhhhh!!!
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Luffy: Aaaaarghhhhhhh!! // pant... pant...
Ace: ?!
Luffy: ......pant... // Aaghhh!! // Aaaaaaghhhhhhhhhh~~~~~~~~~~~~!
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Dadan: Ace... There you are... did you come back on your own?
Ace: ..................
Dadan: Where's the other boy? / What happened to Luffy? Wasn't he with you?
Ace: Like I care.
Bandit: .........Gone missing on his first day here? Don't'cha think that could look a little bad, Boss?!!
Dadan: Ah, leave him!! If he's dead, then there ain't nothing we can do about it!! // Hell, I just wish that Ace kid would go get lost somewhere an' all!! / I always say, if he went and got himself killed, we could just tell Garp it was an accident and that would be the end of that... // But the more you hate the bastards, the more they stick around!
Ace: ..................
Dadan: I mean, he's the son of a goddamn demon!! What if the Government got wind that we've been taking care of him?! // Whaddaya think they'd do to us then, huh?!!
Bandits: Now, now, Boss...
[Box: A week later; night…]
Bandits: Boss~~!! Boss Dadan~~!!
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Bandits: The Luffy kid has found his way back!!!
Dadan: The hell…?! The brat was alive?!!
Bandits: Now, now, Boss...
Dadan: Where the hell have you been, huh?!!!
Bandits: Now, now... Where have you been, boy? What have you been doing?
Luffy: ...Down at the bottom of the valley... being chased by wolves...
Bandits: The bottom of the valley?! What'd you go down there for?!
Dadan: Go get some sleep already!! // Starting tomorrow, it's gonna be all work for you!!
Ace: ..................
Luffy: You going off somewhere again today, Ace?!!
Ace: !
Luffy: Why don't you take me with you?!! / Let's be friends!!
Ace: ..................
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Luffy: Wait up~~~~~~!! // I'm not losing you this time!!
Bandits: Boss!! The boy's run off after Ace again!!
Dadan: Damn you, Luffy~~!! You're meant to be doing the chores!!! // Useless brat... doesn't listen to a thing I say...!!
[Box: Eight days passed… // ...and then ten... // Every day he chased after Ace... // ...and every day he lost him...]
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[Box: A month went by… and another... // Through rain and through wind... // Luffy chased after Ace as though his life depended on it... // This ever-perilous chase... // ...had now been going on for over three months...]
Luffy: pant… // .................. / pant // Ah... We're out of the forest......
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[Box: To the north of Mount Colbo, which Dadan's troupe called home… / ...lay this curious place...]
Luffy: Ughh!! It stinks~~~! What is this place?!
[Box: A veritable mountain of abandoned waste… / ...always enveloped in the foulest of smells... // ...and always wreathed in the grey smoke of spontaneously combusting trash... // All manner of things that have outlived their use gather in this place. // Not only objects... / ...but people as well.]
Murderer: Oi, kid… outta my way...
People: Murder~~~~~~~~!! // He went that way~~~~~!!
[Box: Naturally, it is a lawless land…... With no doctors to be found, both crime and disease thrive here... // This... is the Grey Terminal.]
Luffy: Ah!!
Ace: pant… pant... // (Sabo!! // Sabo, are you there?!!)
Sabo: Hey. / Ace.
Ace: Sorry I'm kind of late!
Sabo: You certainly are. I already went into town and finished up a job.
Ace: Is that right? Well, so did I!!
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Sabo: Whoa!! All right!! This is better than mine!! / Where did you get all this cash?!
[Box: Sabo (age 10) / A boy who lives in the Grey Terminal]
Ace: It was right by the big gates. // Stole it from a bunch of hoodlums!! Probably from some merchant ship or other.
Sabo: Well, damn~~~! Looks like you beat me again!
Ace: Does it matter who wins? / This Pirate Fund belongs to the both of us! // It's been, what, five years now since we first started it? …It's been a tough ride.
Sabo: Uh-huh! ...How much do you think a pirate ship would cost, anyway?
Ace: Who knows... Could be tens or hundreds of millions... we've still got a way to go. / Now close that thing up, quick. You never know who might be watching...
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Luffy: A pirate ship~~~~~~~?!!
Ace: ?!!
Luffy: You guys are gonna be pirates?!
Ace: ........................!!
Luffy: That's just like me!!! // So this is where you've been coming every day, Ace!
Ace: Shut up.
Sabo: So this is the Luffy kid you were telling me about, huh?
Ace: Yeah. Looks like he's finally managed to follow me all the way here. / I made sure not to take any paths that an ordinary person could navigate, but...
Luffy: So, are you Ace's friend? / I'll be friends with you too, then!
Ace: Shut up.
Sabo: This is why I keep saying you should just come and live here...!! That "mountain-path training" of yours has finally gone and cost us big! What do we do now?!
Ace: He knows our secret......... // If we just let him go, who knows who he might tell...
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Ace: We kill him.
Sabo: Right. That works.
Luffy: Whaaaaaaaaaa~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~?!! // !!
Sabo: Idiot!! Keep quiet!!
Luffy: I didn't think you were gonna kill me~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!! Somebody help~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!! I don't wanna die~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!
Ace: Sabo! Hurry up and kill him!!
Sabo: Why do I have to do it?! You kill him!!
Ace: I've never killed anyone before!!
Sabo: Neither have I!! I don't even know how!!
Luffy: Somebody help~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!
Ace/Sabo: SHADDUP~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!
People: What were those voices just now?! They came from the forest!! / It sounded like kids...!
Sabo: ?!! // Dammit! Somebody's coming!!
Ace: Let's get this kid untied for the moment!! If we don't get out of here, they'll find our treasure!!
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Polchemy: "Ace and Sabo"... those two brats are pretty famous 'round these parts. // You're sure the boy who stole your money was the same Ace?
[Box: Member of the Bluejam Pirates / Polchemy]
SomeGuy: Yeah… I still can't believe it myself. I was careless.
Polchemy: Laying their hands on hands on cash that belongs to our pirate crew... those brats have got some nerve, all right.........!! // If Captain Bluejam finds out about this... none of us will be getting out of this mess alive.
Ace: (Crap... the hoodlums I robbed were working for Bluejam's crew...?! / ...That's some dangerous cash to be messing with...!!)
Sabo: (That guy's got a real sword...! It's Polchemy, one of Bluejam's minions! / Have you heard?! He's meant to be seriously crazy!! // Whenever he beats someone in battle, he tears the skin from their living heads...!!)
Ace: ?!!
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Sabo: Huh? // Where's the kid gone?
Ace: Ahh...
Luffy: Get off me~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!! Unghhhhhhhh~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!
Ace: (How did he get himself caught already?!!!)
Polchemy: Who's this brat?
Luffy: Help me, Ace~~~~~~~~~!!!
Ace: ?!! // (That idiot... calling out my name......!!)
Polchemy: .................. // Did you just say "Ace"...? // You know Ace, then, do you......?
Luffy: He's my friend!! / Oh... but he was going to kill me just now...
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Ace: Does he ever stop talking......?!
Polchemy: I'd better ask you this, just to make sure... Thing is, that Ace kid stole a ton of cash from us earlier today. // You wouldn't happen to know where it is, would you?
Luffy: ! / ...............!!
Sabo: Oh, no... they're gonna take all of our treasure...!!
Ace: That dumbass had better not blab......!!
Luffy: .................. // N... N... No idea...
Polchemy: (He's a terrible liar!!!) // Heheh... // .........Well, if you don't know, then that's just fine... // Heheheheh...!! We'll see if we can't give your memory... / ...a little jog...!!
Luffy: What're you doing?!! Get off me!! Where are you taking me?!!! Dammit!!!
Sabo/Ace: ........................!!!
[Insert text: Will they save him?! Or abandon him?!]
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Chapter 584: The Polchemy Incident
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[Insert text: Luffy has been captured by Polchemy…]
Luffy: Get off me!!! // I'm not telling you anything!!!
Polchemy: You dumb brat…...!!
Pirates: Aahh...!! // !!!
Luffy: ...............!! // I told you, I ate the Gomu Gomu no Mi, and...
Pirates: Aaaaaghhhhhhhh~~~~~~~~~~!!!
Polchemy: ......... // .........A "Devil's Fruit"... Looks like the real deal...
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Polchemy: Bring me my "gloves".
Pirates: ?!
Polchemy: Now, listen up, brat. The cash that your little friend Ace stole... // ...was the valuable property of our pirate crew. // You know where they've hidden it... // ...and you're going to tell us...!!
Luffy: !!!
Pirates: ...............!! It worked!!
Polchemy: You shouldn't mess with pirates, boy... / Our Captain, Bluejam... now he's what I call a beast among men...
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Luffy: Aaaaarghhhhhhhhhh!!! It hurts~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!! // I'm scared~~~~~~~~~~~!!! Somebody help me~~~~~~~~~~!!!
Polchemy: You guys go out and look for Ace and Sabo.
Pirates: R... Right!!
[Box: The forest between Mount Colbo and the Grey Terminal]
Ace/Sabo: Hurry it up, hurry it up!! // If Polchemy and his men get here, it's all over!! // We've gotta get the treasure to a new hiding-place, quick!! / It's only a matter of time before that Luffy blabs and tells them everything!! // If they find this place, it won't just be the cash we just stole they'll be taking… / They'll steal the whole Pirate Fund we've built up over the past five years!!
People: Do I know where to find Ace and Sabo?
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People: You people are louts from the town, right...? Let me tell you, you don't want to be messing with those two. // Don't underestimate them because they're just kids. / That pair of wild dogs could strip a tiger to the bone...!! // Ace and Sabo, eh...? Nah, I ain't seen 'em... And while we're here, fellas......... / ...How about you give me all your valuables, yeah...?
Pirates: ?!!
Ace: ...The sun's going down already, huh... // ......All right! It's all done!! // We've moved the whole stock of treasure!!
Sabo: pant // pant... // Ace!!
Ace: ...Sabo! How was it? Did they show up at the old hiding place looking for the cash yet?
Sabo: pant... pant...... No... They haven't!! There's no way they would've showed up there yet!! // ...That Luffy kid......!! pant......!! He...!! // He still hasn't told them a thing!!!
Ace: ...What?!
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[Box: Gray Terminal, Pirates' Cove]
[Labels: Gray Terminal // Pirates' Cove // Forest // Mt. Colbo // Fuschia Village]
Bluejam: They're late… // Who was on duty today?
Pirates: It was that Polchemy, Captain Bluejam!
Bluejam: It's sunset already...... // It can't have taken them this long to sell the loot for cash......!! // Oh, he'd better not have run off and tried to take the cash for himself......
Pirates: Oh no, he wouldn't have......
Polchemy: Just hurry up and spit it out already!!!
Luffy: !!!
Pirates: pant... // pant... // P... P... P... Polchemy-san...!! It's no good...!!!
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Pirates: .........!! This kid... he doesn't even have the strength to scream any more...
Luffy: hic / Ueghh...!! // pant... / hic
Pirates: ......I don't think he's going to tell us anything now... and frankly I don't think I can bear to watch this any longer......!!
Polchemy: If you've got the time to stand about defending the brat... / ...then get out there and keep searching for Ace and Sabo!! // It's our lives that are on the line here!!
People: .........What are they doing to that little kid......?!! / Do you think we should call the authorities? // No use doing that. Laws don't mean a thing out here on the trash heap... / Besides... that man comes from Bluejam's crew. They pay plenty of cash to the people with power around here. // This country just turns a blind eye to all the crimes and murders that crew commit...!! // Doesn't matter how many bodies show up in this trash heap; in the end, it's just a few more pieces of trash.
Polchemy: ANSWER ME!!!!
Luffy: ......I'm not telling...
Polchemy: You think keeping your friend's secret makes you a big man, huh?!! Stupid little brat!!!
Luffy: !!! // I'm not telling......!! // I'm not telling.........!!
Polchemy: Then forget it!! ......Time to die.
Luffy: ?!
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Ace: STOOOOOOP~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!
Polchemy: ?!!
Luffy: ........................!!!
Pirates: ...That's him~~~~~~!! Polchemy-san!! // That's the one who stole our cash~~!!! Damn it all!!!
Luffy: A... ACE~~~~~~~~~~!!!
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Polchemy: Showing up of your own accord? Well, that makes things easier!!!
Ace: ?!! // Ngh...!!!
Polchemy: We were just getting in a bind 'cause your little buddy's lips were sealed so tight!!!
Ace: SABO!!!
Polchemy: Hm?
Sabo: HIIIYAAAAHHHH!!!
Polchemy: !!!
Pirates: Polchemy-san!!!
People: ...............!!!
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Pirate: Ahh!! / My knife!!
Sabo: Time to run, Ace!!!
Luffy: Unghh...
Ace: You go on ahead!!!
Sabo: ?!! // You can't be...!!
Ace: Once I've faced an enemy down... / ...I never run......!!!
Sabo: Don't be stupid!!! The guy's got a sword, for godssakes!!! // He's not like some ordinary hoodlum from the town!!!
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Polchemy: Now look... / You just took that cash in a moment of greed, right? // It's time you gave it back now, little brat.
Ace: We can make better use of it than you!
Polchemy: Don't you screw with me!!!
Sabo: You just wait there!!
Luffy: Unghh...
Polchemy: !! // If I were to get beaten by some brat... // Hell, I'd give up the pirate life forever!!!
Ace: ...............!!
Sabo: Haahhh!!
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Bluejam: I have heard the details of what happened.
Polchemy: ..................
Bluejam: Polchemy... you have brought shame on us all......
Pirates: Seriously, that's just pathetic......!!
Polchemy: I apologise, Captain Brujam... // I will...
Bluejam: Do not raise your face to me. I have no wish to see it...
Polchemy: !
Pirates: !!!
Luffy: Waaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!! Guaaaaaaaahhhh...!!
Sabo: That's a horrible habit you've got there, Ace!! Refusing to run from a fight against a real pirate...!!! / Do you have a proper death wish or something?!!! // sigh... After what we just did......... / The Bluejam Pirates are never going to forgive us now, you know... / They'll keep coming after us......!!
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Luffy: I was so scared... I thought I was gonna die...!!
Ace: Oh, shut up!! How long are you gonna keep crying, huh?!! Just so you know, I can't stand weaklings and crybabies!! // It pisses me off!! // Ah...
Luffy: ...Thank you...
Ace/Sabo: .........
Luffy: Thank you... for saving... me... aahhh...
Ace: Why, you!!
Sabo: Hey, hey...!! / He's just thanking us, that's all!
Ace: ............ // ......At any rate... why the hell did you keep your mouth shut so tight?!! / Those are the kind of guys who kill women and children without a second thought!!!
Luffy: ...If I'd told them, we wouldn't have been able to be friends......!!
Ace: Does that really matter?! You could have died!!! Why do you want to be friends with me so much, anyway?!! // After all the stuff I've put you through...! / What made you follow me all this damn way...?!!
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Luffy: 'Cause I don't have... // ...anyone else!!!
Ace: ?!
Luffy: I can't go back to Fuschia Village... / And I can't stand bandits...!! So if I hadn't gone chasing after you...
Ace: ...............!!
Luffy: I would've been all alone...! / ...And being alone hurts worse than anything!!!
Ace: ......Don't you have parents, or...
Luffy: Nobody other than Gramps.
Ace: So... you won't be in pain as long as you have me...? // ......You really...... need me...?
Luffy: Uh-huh.
Flashback!People: If Roger'd had a kid?? // Gahahahah! Man, that would really suck!!!
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Flashback!People: A kid like that wouldn't even have the right to live... // He'd be a demon!!
Ace: Are you telling me... // ...you want me to live......?
Luffy: ?! / ......!! Of course I do!!
Ace: ...I see. Still, I don't know... I can't stand nasty, clingy kids like you...
Luffy: I'm not clingy!! I'm strong!!
Ace: Strong? You don't look strong to me. Look at you, sitting there crying! And you call yourself a man!!
Luffy: Have you ever been punched with iron spikes?!!! / I'm only seven, you know!! When I grow up to be ten like you, I won't cry any more, and I'll be stronger than you too!!!
Ace: I didn't cry even when I was seven, dummy!! Don't lump me together with you!!
Luffy: I'm gonna get stronger than anyone in the world!!! // I promised Shanks I'm gonna become an incredible pirate!!!
Ace: A pirate?! You??
Sabo: Hey, guys? While we're here... I've got a problem to deal with now.
Ace: ?
Sabo: I mean, I've been living here on the trash heap up until now, but... // After what happened today, it seems likely that all three of us... // ...are going to have real pirates trying to find us and kill us, right...?
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Dadan: The hell is the meaning of this~~~~~~~~~~~?!! // Ace!! Luffy!! Who in God's name is this brat?!! / Why the hell are there even more of you now?!!!
Sabo: Hey there! You're Dadan, right? / My name's Sabo!
Dadan: Sabo?!! Now that's a name I've heard before! // From what I hear, you're a foul brat if ever there was one!!
Sabo: Really...? Well, I've heard that you're a foul old hag!!
Dadan: An' where in blazes did you hear that?!!
[Box: Ace's best friend, Sabo. Forced to flee the Grey Terminal, he came to live together with Ace and Luffy.]
Dadan: You little brats!! I'm givin' you a place to stay, so you'd better earn your keep, got that?!!!
Ace: Luffy!! If you can't keep up, we'll just leave you behind, all right?!!
Luffy: I'm coming!!
[Box: Ace, Sabo and Luffy. This trio of scoundrels…]
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[Box: …would go on to do battle with the beasts of mountain and jungle... // ...the hooligans from town and the wretches from the trash heap... // ...and even the pirates from Pirates' Cove... // ...until finally, their infamy reached as far as the capital of the kingdom.]
Dadan: Dogura!! Magura!! Where is this "Goa" place, anyway…?
Pirates: Well, in theory, Mount Colbo, the trash heap, and Fuschia Village are all a part of the Kingdom of Goa.
Dadan: Oh, yeah...
Pirates: Now, now, Boss!! What's got into you, reading newspapers all of a sudden? / Is it going to start raining spears today?
Dadan: They're saying this Kingdom's gonna have some special visitors. Apparently it's real big news or something. / I don't know what all the fuss is about, myself. Are they really such big shots? // These "Tenryuubito" folks.
[Insert text: This can't be good…]
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