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One Piece
Chapter 590: My Brother
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[Insert text: Time goes by…]
[Box: East Blue: Goa Kingdom, Fuschia Village]
People: It's Garp-san~~~~~~!! // Garp-san has returnd in a battleship~~~~~~~~!! // Is it official business?!
Garp: Hey. Good to see everyone's all right.
People: Garp-san! We read the news about the war!! // What happened to Luffy?! // What's going to happen to the world with Whitebeard dead?! Hey, Garp-san…! // These past few days... there've been sightings of pirate ships just offshore... / People can't sleep at night!
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Garp: I just sank a pirate ship out in the waters nearby as I arrived.
People: Really?!! That's great...!
Garp: They were a bunch of amateurs... didn't know the first thing about fighting... // In the days to come... there's going to be instability in all the oceans of the world. / Don't let your guard down just because you live in some remote corner of East Blue. / Got that?
People: Yes, sir!!
[Sign: GUARD STATION / Marine HQ Vice-Admiral Garp]
People: Ahhh!! That's reassuring, all right!! // Garp-san, there's been another incident!! A group of bandits have come down from the mountains… / ...and they've taken over Makino's bar!!
Garp: Bandits...?
Makino: Stop!! You mustn't!!
Dadan: Oi, Garp~~~!!!
Garp: !!
People: Ahhh!! It's them!!
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Dadan: YOU'VE GOT A LOTTA NERVE SHOWING YOUR FACE HERE AGAIN~~~~~~!!!
Garp: !!!
People: Garp-san!! // Aaahhhhhhhh!!
Dadan: ......!! pant... pant...
Marines: Vice-Admiral Garp!!
Garp: Stay back, men! I know this woman...
Marines: ?!
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Dadan: Damn you!! You were right there in the thick of it all!!! ............!!! / pant... // They were right in front of you...!!! // .........!!! How could you let Ace die like that......?!!!
Garp: !
Dadan: Do you value your work over your family?!!! / Well, Garp?!!!
People: ...............!!
Dadan: And you call yourself a Marine hero!!! Curl up and die, you worthless old fart!!!
Magura: Now, now... That's enough, Boss...!!
Makino: Stop this, Dadan-san!!!
Garp: ...Makino...
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Makino: Garp-san saw the whole affair happen right in front of him, and still couldn't do a thing to save them.........!! // This must be harder on him than any of us!!! .........!!! / pant
Dadan: ...............!!!
Makino: pant
Dadan: No...... // The one this'll be hardest on......... is Luffy...!!!
Makino: !
Flashback!Ace: My name's Ace!! / Who the hell are you?
Makino: No, no, no. That's far too impolite!
Luffy: Just say "And who're you?"
Ace: ...And what do you call yourself, ruffian?
Makino: Ahaha...! That's still no good. Are you actually trying...?!
Dadan: You should know how much he loved that brother of his... / .........
Garp: Makino!
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WoopSlap: Garp... What happened to Luffy? The newspapers are saying he's gone missing...
Garp: Village Chief... / Luffy escaped in a submarine......... / No remains have been found...!! The boy lives yet...!!
WoopSlap: .........
People: ......Ya hear that? // Thank goodness~~~~~~~!! // Still, why are these bandits...?
Dadan: That young fool Luffy...... No matter what manner of pirate he turns out to be, I'll always be on his side...!!
Garp: .........
Dadan: And when I think of how he must be feeling right now... it tears me apart!!! // ..................!! // LUFFY~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!
People: ?!!
Dadan: DON'T YOU DARE GIVE IN~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!
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[Box: Meanwhile, in a far-off land…]
Marco: I'm sorry for all this.
[Box: This is the latter half of the Grand Line… the New World.]
Marco: Red-Hair… I don't know how to thank you enough...
Shanks: ..................
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Shanks: No need for any of that... / He may have been my enemy, but Whitebeard was a man worthy of respect. // Even Sengoku understood that. / ...Anyway, we ought to get going...
Marco: ......... // Right... Thank you again.
Shanks: (Luffy... This must be terribly hard on you... I was shocked to hear about Ace's final actions... // It's as though he were Captain Roger himself... You know, there were times... // ...when I wished that the Captain would run, or even that he would cry. // Listen up, Luffy. // It's through knowing both victory and defeat, running wild and shedding tears, that a man truly grows up. // Don't be afraid to cry......!! / Make it through this!!!)
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[Box: The Calm Belt: Isle of Women]
Luffy: Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhh~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!! // …...!! / ......I'm still so weak!!! // ......!!! I can't protect a single thing!!! // ...............!!! // pant // pant......
Jimbei: .........Luffy-kun...
Luffy: Go away...!!! / pant // pant...
Jimbei: .........
Luffy: Leave me alone!!!
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Jimbei: I'm afraid that will not be possible... / I cannot stand to see you injure yourself any further.
Luffy: It's my body!!! I can do what I like!!!
Jimbei: ...In that case, Ace-san's body too belonged to him alone. / It was his own choice whether to live or die.
Luffy: ...Shut up!!! / You say another word and I'll punch your face in!!!
Jimbei: If that will help to calm you, then please, feel free......... // I too am wounded, but I will not be defeated by you in this state.........!!!
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Luffy: !!! // Nghh...!!! // ......cough... // ...............!! // pant / pant...
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Flashback!Ace: Jimbei... // On my journey to track down Teach... // ...I met my little brother again, for the first time in three years. I found him in the Kingdom of Alabasta...
Flashback!Jimbei: ..................
Flashback!Ace: The instant I saw him... I felt so relieved. // Do you know why?
Jimbei: .................. // Ngh...!!! // ...Uuu... // ...uuuurrghhhhhh...!!! // THAT HURT...!!! // YOU LITTLE BRAT!!!
Luffy: ...............!!!
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Luffy: Unghh............!!!
Jimbei: ...............!! // Are you no longer able to see anything at all?!!! // pant...... pant...... // That brimming confidence which led you to believe you could overcome any obstacle...!! // Your own great strength, which you never doubted for an instant!!!
Luffy: ...............!!!
Jimbei: The unsurpassable hordes of enemies who cruelly shattered those beliefs apart...!!! // The brother who was always your guiding light upon these oceans!! Certainly, you have lost much... // You are allowing that mighty obstacle known as the world to block out your entire field of vision!!! // At this rate, you will lose sight of everything!! // You will be engulfed by dark clouds of self-condemnation and regret!!
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Jimbei: It may be hard right now, Luffy... / ...but you must silence those thoughts!!!
Luffy: ...............!!!
Jimbei: Stop counting only those things that you have lost!!! // What is gone, is gone!!! // So ask yourself this!! What is there... // ...that still remains to you?!!!
Luffy: ?!!
Jimbei: .........!! pant... pant............
Luffy: ..................
Jimbei: pant...... // pant......
Luffy: ..................
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Luffy: I STILL HAVE MY FRIENDS!!!!
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Jimbei: .................. // .........I see.........
Luffy: Zoro!! Nami!!! Usopp!! Sanji!! / Chopper!! Robin!! Franky!! Brooke!!! // I still have... all of you!!! // ...There's a place... where we all decided to meet up. // ......That's where I have to go......
Jimbei: .........
Flashback!Ace: I'll tell you what I saw there... / ...Jimbei.........
DoubleFlashback!Ace: When you've got a hopeless little brother like him... it makes a guy worry. / I'm sure he'll cause you all kinds of trouble, but... // Take good care of him.
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Flashback!Ace: ...The Luffy who I remembered, the kid who did nothing but tag along and hide behind my back... // ...was nowhere left to be seen......!! // He had found himself... / ...a crew of wonderful friends. // So no matter what happens, he'll be okay. // That's why... // ...I felt so relieved.
Jimbei: Whew.........!!
Luffy: ......I want to see them... // I WANT TO SEE THEM AGAIN...!!!!
[Insert text: He finds it!! That irreplaceable thing that remains to him!!]
