One Piece Volume 31 : I'm Right Here Chapter 289 Full Moon - Page 65 - Ace's Grand Blackbeard Search Vol.15 "The Military Meeting's Coffee Is Awful" Sign: Justice with Affluence - Page 66 - Norland: Ugh...!!! Hahh!!! Hahh...!!! Hahh...!!! Cough!! Blast...!!! Calgara: Wahahaha...!! The fissure has eaten you, indeed. An "act of god", no doubt. It's astonishing you're still alive... Norland: Hahh. Hahh...!!! {The "Wood Fever" attacking the village can be cured...!!! And I can prove it, if only I could return to the village...!!} - Page 67 - Calgara: The night has ended... When this sun sinks to the west... the lives of your 100 hundred men will be given unto the gods... Because YOU ruined our ceremony, WE have incurred their wrath!!! And your current predicament speaks well of that... That piece of earth is the power of the gods. You are helpless...!!! - Page 68 - People: Calgara went into the forest. If he kills the GODSLAYER, maybe the gods will be appeased... Papa!! Papaaaaaaa!! Another warrior has died. If only he could have died in battle. Is the urn ready?! Several people are waiting to be buried...!! I can't catch up when so many are dying. Damn... This wouldn't have happened if you never came here... That earthquake alone had devastating results on our village!!! Sailors: Huh?! Men: IF YOU HADN'T INTERRUPTED THE CEREMONY, WE...!!! No, don't rush to conclusions!!! - Page 69 - Villagers: YOU are the evil spirits here!!! We'll kill you all!!! Sailors: H- HEY, wait!! That's not what you promised!!! Please... don't!! Wait wait, look out!!! Villager: YOU- SET!!! OUT OF THE WAY!!! IT'S THEIR FAULT MY WIFE DIED LAST NIGHT...!!! Set: ...the Shandian warriors that I admired WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE MORE PRIDE THAN THIS!!! Sailor: Kid... - Page 70 - Norland: Nnng...!!! NNNG!!! GG...!!! AAAAAAHHHH!!! Calgara: {He moved the entire ground...?!!} - Page 71 - Norland: Hahh... Hahh... Aah... WHEWW...!! UHHHH...!! UAAAARGH!!! - Page 72 - Villagers: Prepare the ceremony...!!! Take every single sacrifice to the altar!!! Sailors: Hey!! C'mon... wait just a bit longer!!! The commodore will be back real soon!! Give us... TWO HOURS!! No, ONE!! Please!! HEY, KID!! DO SOMETHING!! MAKE THEM STOP!! I DON'T WANNA BE A HUMAN SACRIFICE!!! Why do we have to be burned alive?!! Villagers: The ceremony will begin soon. Cough! Brother!! Just a bit more suffering...!! Hahh... hahh... - Page 73 - Calgara: The sun is setting. Soon... the ceremony will be starting. Now... How pathetic a sight... a man who opposed the gods, now so crushed and helpless... You struggled well, throughout this day. Norland: Gehoh... Hahh... hahh... What... are you people... so afraid of? Hahh... Hahh... Calgara: What? Norland: So terrified of a thing that does not exist... giving up human lives with no qualms!!! - Page 74 - Calgara: With NO QUALMS...?!! Norland: ...that's right... your sacrifices... allow you to live at ease... They are meaningless scapegoats... Calgara: DO NOT SPEAK OF WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW!!!! WE HAVE LIVED THIS WAY FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS!!! Norland: That doesn't mean...!! It's right!!! Calgara: SILENCE, OUTSIDER!!! Norland: Gehoh... ...hahh...!! ...no matter how great your GODS are... The lives of people are even more precious!!! - Page 75 - Norland: Hahh... hahh...!! ...hahh... how could you possibly understand hahh... ...hahh... hahh... when you could abandon such an innocent young woman... and not think a thing of it...?!! That thinking is abnormal... WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS *INHUMAN*!!!! Calgara: You believe we think nothing of our sacrifices...? Really... even if that girl you saved yesterday... - Page 76 - Calgara: WAS MY OWN DAUGHTER?!! Norland: ...you...!! You would tell your own daughter... to end her own life...?! Calgara: How would YOU understand the absolute power that the words of our Pantri, he who communicates with the gods, can hold?!! The word of our Pantri is the word of the gods. OBEYING THOSE COMMANDS ARE OUR PEOPLE'S "PRECEPTS"!!! I CANNOT BREAK THEM FOR MY DAUGHTER'S LIFE!!! IF I TURN MY BACK ON THEM, I *WILL* BE PUNISHED!!! SFX: *leopard yowl* *crunching* - Page 77 - Villagers: Bring the sacrifices to the altar!!! Send them to heaven with the fires of the gods!!! Sailors: Commodore!! Commodorrrre!!! COMMODORE!! WE'LL BE BURN ALIVE!!! Norland: ...no. Calgara: Do you think such misfortune would continue had you done nothing? This is the work of the gods...!! - Page 78 - Calgara: KASHIGAMI... Norland: Nng...!! Calgara: No, it is smaller... A child of Kashigami...?!! The flesh of Kashigami has come... to judge you!! Norland: {THIS IS NO JUDGMENT!!} - Page 79 - Norland: ...then, tell me, WILL I RECEIVE "JUDGMENT"?! OR DIE IN AN "ACCIDENT"?!! WILL THE VILLAGE DIE OF A "CURSE", OR A "DISEASE"?!! In my land, sixty years ago... the "Wood Fever" epidemic that is ailing your village swept our people and took away the lives of a hundred thousand...!! This sickness killed over 90% of those who contracted it...!!! But now, less than 3% of those afflicted by the same disease will perish!! The botanists of South Blue went upon numerous expeditions and made a vital discovery!!! The component known as "Conine", taken from the bark of the "Kona" tree!! I hold that now, in my right hand! Return and make a powder of it, AND YOU CAN SAVE YOUR VILLAGE!!! - Page 80 - Norland: DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW MANY PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD SPENT SO MUCH TIME AND ENERGY SEARCHING FOR THIS INGREDIENT, AT THE COST OF THEIR OWN LIVES?!! YOU ARE STEPPING UPON THIS GREAT "PROGRESS" WE HAVE MADE!!!! *THAT* IS WHY YOUR RITUAL IS AN INSULT TO THEIR MEMORY!!!! YOUR ANCIENT PRECEPTS ARE THE REAL EVIL SPIRITS HERE!!!! ARE YOU THAT AFRAID OF YOUR GODS?!!!! - Page 81 - <