One Piece Volume 18 : Introducing Ace Chapter 157 Introducing Ace - Page 27 - Jango's Dance Paradise Vol.24 "Hostage Girl" - Page 28 - [Sea Cat (Sea Creature)] [Habitat: Sandy Island Coast] Sea Cat: MEOWWWWWWWWWWW!! Luffy: WHAT IS THAT?!! Vivi: A SEA CAT!!! Usopp: UWAAAAAAAAUGH!!! Chopper: A SEA MONSTER!!! - Page 29 - Zoro: OUR FIRST MEAL IN FOUR DAYS!!! Luffy: FOOD!!!! Nami: Direction... check. I hope we get there soon... Luffy: FOOOOOOOD!!! Zoro: No, it's retreating! Luffy: Put the ship in reverse!! Sanji: You can't do that!! Don't let it get away! Make sure you kill it!!! - Page 30 - Vivi: NO!!!! Sanji: W... what's wrong, Vivi-chan...?!! Luffy: Jeez, Vivi, you asshole!!! Vivi: You can't eat it! In Alabasta, sea cats... Are sacred animals. - Page 31 - Chopper: There sure are lots of things in the ocean. Usopp: HaHAhaHA... You're still a k-k-kid if that kind of s-stuff s-scares you. Okay, time for me to tell you about time I bravely fought with sea monsters on the Calm Belt. Chopper: With sea monsters?!! Usopp: Yeah, the giant kind!! Luffy: My... my food got away... Vivi: Don't worry. You'll be able to eat all you want soon. Luffy: Really?! What kind of cat will it be this time?! Nami: Vivi! The wind and temperature seem to be stabilized. Vivi: Yes... we've entered the Alabastan climate zone. The sea cat is more proof. Zoro: I bet THOSE THINGS behind us... are even more proof we're close to Alabasta. - Page 32 - Top Panel: SHIPS!!! Luffy: Look at all those ships!! When did they-?!! Usopp: Hey, they all have the Baroque Works signs on them!!! Vivi: All the members are coming together...!! Those are probably the "Billions"!! Servants of the Officer Agents... Nami: 200 of them will be tough... Vivi: And these are different from the 200 elite bounty hunters Baroque Works hired for Whiskey Peak!! - Page 33 - Usopp: All right...!! L-let's shoot 'em with the cannon now!!! Luffy: No, it would be faster just to go over and kick their asses! No wait, I need to eat first!! Zoro: Stop getting worried. They're nothing!! Sanji: Yeah! All is lost if we lose sight of our true objective. There's only 8 of us. - Page 34 - Zoro: So tie them on tight. Our enemies have plenty of mysteries. Vivi: I see. Nami: As long as we can see these, we don't need to doubt one another. Sanji: Does he really look like us that much? When he does his "Mane Mane Fruit" thing... Usopp: He doesn't "look" like us, he "is" us. Too bad, you really should have seen it! Sanji: I'm not interested in okamas. Usopp: We were even dancing. - Page 35 - Zoro: Now that we know he's among the enemy... We can't allow for any careless individual actions!! Chopper: Hey, what should I do?! Usopp: Just do what you can, nothing else. Run away from enemies you can't beat!! Just do your best!! Sanji: You're just telling that to yourself. Karoo: Quack!!! Chopper: What I can do... got it!! Someone: We're coming up to the harbor. Let's stop in that inlet to the west. We have to hide the ship. Luffy: Okay! Whatever happens from now on, this left arm... - Page 36 - Luffy: IS PROOF OF FRIENDSHIP. - Page 37 - Luffy: NOW... LET'S GET ONTO DRY LAND!!! - Page 38 - Luffy: TO A RESTAURANT!!!! Then Alabasta. Nami: SHUT UP, YOU IDIOT!!! Our enemies are assassins, Luffy. Luffy: Oh yeah. Nami: Take caution when choosing your actions!! Understand? Luffy: Yeah, I understand!! - Page 39 - [Alabasta Port Town] [Nanohana] Smoker: That shop's especially noisy... What happened? Tashigi: It seems a customer suddenly died in there. Oh, Sergeant. Sergeant: Captain Smoker...!! You're not gonna believe who's here in town!!! - Page 40 - Sergeant: He appears to have died while conversing with the owner of the shop. He appears to be a traveler... Everyone thinks he may have accidentally eaten a "Desert Strawberry". Smoker: "Desert Strawberry"? Sergeant: A poisonous spider that looks like a red strawberry. If you unwittingly eat it, you suddenly die a few days later. A number of hours after that... The body spreads an infectious poison. - Page 41 - Sergeant: So nobody has approached him. In the desert, what you don't know CAN KILL YOU. Look at the arm holding the fork. If it's stuck that way... They say it's the strength of the poison in the "Desert Strawberry"...!!! Ace: PWAAH?!! Customers: AAAAH!! HE CAME BACK TO LIFE!!! Ace: Huh? Woman: A-are you okay? Ace: Mmph. Woman: Kyaa! - Page 42 - Ace: Whewww... Maaaaan. Damn... I fell asleep. Customers: YOU FELL ASLEEP?!! In the middle of a meal and conversation?!! And he just started chewing again!! Ace: Jeez, what are you guys so worked up about? - Page 43 - Customers: WE WERE WORRIED ABOUT YOU!!! Ace: You guys hire comedians or something? Owner: No... well anyways, I'm glad you're okay. Ace: *fwump* All: HEY!!! People: So no one died after all? What a waste of time...!! - Page 44 - Ace: Oh, by the way, pops. Owner: What is it? Ace: Has this guy come into town? Wearin' a straw hat... Smoker: I guess you don't have a problem with eating in full public. Now what does the commander of the "Whitebeard Pirate Crew" second corps want in this country? Well, Portgas D. Ace? People: W... WHITEBEARD?!! ONE OF THE WHITEBEARD PIRATES...?!! I knew I'd seen that mark on his back before! Why is he here...?!! Owner: WHAT?!! - Page 45 - Luffy: RESTAURANT!!!! Crew: WAIT A MINUTE!!! [Whitebeard Pirates] [Commander of the Second Corps] [Portgas D. Ace] Ace: I'm on a search... For my little brother. (Note: I need to address something regarding the Whitebeard/Blackbeard pirates. The word for beard, in this case, can also mean mustache and if you look at the symbol on Ace's back, it looks like a guy with a white mustache. However, who wants to call them the White Mustache Pirates when you can call them the Whitebeard Pirates? Oh well. Whitebeard it is.) - Page 46 - Usopp Gallery Pirates Usopp: AWAWAWAWA!! Fight!! Usopp Gallery Pirates!! - Chapter 157 Owari -