One Piece
	 Volume 33 : Davy Back Fight!!
	  Chapter 309
	   Groggy Monsters

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Chapter 309 - Groggy Monsters

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Tubifex: WE HAVE A WINNER!!!
	THE CUTIE WAGON!!!
	The winner of the Davy Back Fight First Round, "Donuts Race"

Porche: Oooh!  Thank you, everyone!!
	It was the completely natural outcome!!!

Pirates: Way to go, Porche-chan!!
	Did you see that, you fools?!

Tubifex: Our idol, Porche-chaaan!!!

Pirates: We got ourselves a new crew member!!!
	You're the best, Porche-chan!!
	Gyahahahahaha!!  Nobody can stand up to the Foxy Pirates!!!

Nami: Hahh... hahh...

Luffy: Hey, you guys!!

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Foxy: HOI HOI HOI HOI!  FWEH FWEH FWEHHHH!!!

Hamburg: Pffpff!  Pffpffpfft!!!

Foxy: Now, let's have you bring forth one of your crew!!!

Sanji: ...hey!!  Wait a minute!!  What did you just do?!!
	We were winning...!!!  ...up until the end...

Pirates: Up until the end!!
	Bwahahahahahahaha!!!

Sanji: Nami-san...?!!

Crew: Hey!!  Usopp, Nami, Robin!!  What happened?!
	Are you okay?!!
	...what was that?
	Hey...!!  Did we lose the race?!!
	Just when we thought you had won, you got all slow...!!
	Then they beat you!!!

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Nami: Yes, the moment I thought we'd won...
	That light came out of his hand...

<<Foxy: Noro Noro Beam!!

Nami: And we lost the freedom of movement...
	No, it was more like
	everything around us began to move
	...slower.
	The ship,
	and the waves.

Usopp: By the time things got back to normal...  they'd already won...

Chopper: You aren't hurt, are you?!

Luffy: What did they do?!

Porche: Ooh!  A toast to our victory!!

Foxy: Fwehhh fweh fweh...  nothing to be mystified about.
	It was because of "Noroma Photons"!!

(Note: Noroma means "slow" or "stupid," and is related to the "Noro Noro" powers that Foxy has.)

Sanji: Hey, what the hell did you do to Nami-san's team?!!

Crew: Noroma Photons...?

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Foxy: They're special particles that are still a mystery to modern science!!
	Anything hit by these photons, whether creature, liquid, or gas...
	Retains all its other energy,
	but physically loses all of its speed!!!

Luffy: I DON'T GET IT!!!  ARE YOU RETARDED?!!

Foxy: He yelled at me...

Porche: No, Boss!!!

Nami: But...  that's too ridiculous, it...

Porche: CAN'T BE TRUE?!  You should know that on this sea, those words are uttered all too often!!
	"Anything they touch slows down!!!"
	That's what Noroma Photons do!!!

Luffy: Oh, well that makes sense, then.

Foxy: Ever since I ate the "Noro Noro Fruit," I've been able to emit them from my body!
	I became a "Noroma Human"!!!
	But don't take it from me, JUST WATCH!!!
	Hamburg!!

Hamburg: Yeah Boss.

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Foxy: "NORO NORO"
	"BEAAAAM"!!!

Usopp: Wha-!!
	The cannonball slowed down!!

Foxy: Fweh fweh...
	I can slow down anything in direct light.
	How much does mankind TRULY understand about this ocean...?
	Fweh fweh fweh!
	The Noro Noro effect lasts for about thirty seconds before regular speed is returned.
	Just like nothing ever happened.
	GO ON, DOUBT YOUR OWN EYES!  THIS IS...

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Foxy: THE NORO No...

Porche: BOSS!!!

Usopp: ...damn, so that's what got us...

Nami: If he uses that thing in a race...!!

Sanji: No wonder they had so much confidence coming into this...!!!
	What a ridiculous power...!!

Porche: Now do you understand?!  YOU LOST!!!

Foxy: WE WON!!!
	THE FIRST ROUND, "DONUTS RACE"!!!

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Porche: Uh-oh!!  Too bad!!

Tubifex: THE FIRST ROUND IS OVER!!!
	The moment you've been waiting for!  Spoils of war!!
	Go ahead, Boss!!

Foxy: Fweh fweh.

Tubifex: Pick out the enemy crewmember you'd like!!

Sanji: DAMN...!!!

Foxy: The one I wanted the most out of the entire crew...
	WAS YOU...!!

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Foxy: THE DOCTOR!!!
	TONY TONY CHOPPER!!!

Chopper: ME?!!

Nami: Oh no...!!  Chopper!!!

Chopper: Wah!
	Wah!

Foxy: COME RIGHT THIS WAY!!!
	Woohoo!!  What a strange creature!!
	Oooh, he's even fuzzier than I imagined!
	HE'S SICKENINGLY CUTE!!

Chopper: Aaah!!

Porche: Oooh!!  Let me feel him too, Boss!!

Foxy: AND HE'S OURS, NOW!!!

Chopper: NOOOOOOOO!!!

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Luffy: CHOPPER!!

Sanji: So Chopper was the one he was after.
	Come to think of it, he is one odd little bugger...

Nami: Does he have a thing for cute stuff?

Robin: Maybe he has a thing for pelts.

Usopp: IS THIS REALLY THE TIME FOR THAT?!  IT ISN'T FUNNY, YOU GUYS!!
	He took our crewmate!!!

Chopper: GUYZZZ!!!

Foxy: Come now, Dr. Chopper!!  You're our medic, now!!
	Swear loyalty to me!!
	Put the mask on him!!!

Chopper: Ah!!

Foxy: Fweh fweh fweh!!

Usopp: Chopper...

Chopper: ...you guys...
	Sniff...!!!

Nami: Chopper...!!!

Usopp: I'm so sorry we lost, Chopper...!!!
	...oh!!!
	Oh no!!!

Foxy: Fwehhh fweh fweh fweh!!!
	He really IS an odd little creature!!!

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Porche: Wow!!  A talking reindeer!  That's so neat!!

Chopper: Waaaahh.

Pirates: Sit down right here,
	my brother!!

Chopper: Waahhh.

Pirates: Gyahahahahahaha!!!
	Let's be pals, li'l buddy!!

Chopper: YOU GUYZZZ!!!
	I...
	AH...
	I DON' WANNA GO!!!
	I went to sea because I was with you!!!
	Luffy!!!  I joined the crew...
	because you invited me to!!!
	I don't wanna be with these people-

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Zoro: QUIT YOUR BELLYACHING, CHOPPER!!!
	IT'S PATHETIC!!!

Chopper: Zoro!!

Zoro: Coming to the sea was your own choice and responsibility!!!
	Whatever end you come to on the sea depends on YOU!  You can't fault anyone else!!!
	We accepted this game!!!
	Usopp's team gave it their all.
	What kind of pirate is going to be sympathetic to your tears?!!

Crew: Zoro?!!

Zoro: If you're a man...

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Zoro: YOU SIT TIGHT,
	BE QUIET AND WATCH THIS MATCH!!!

Nami: You can't be serious...!!
	Why don't you consider his feelings...

Foxy: Oooooh!!

Nami: Chopper...

Zoro: GOOD!!!

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Zoro: Get the second round started, already!!!

Pirates: WOOOOOOO!!
	That swordsman's pretty slick, too!!
	Let's get him next, Boss!!
	That reindeer's got guts!
	I'm tearin' up over here, man, seriously!!

Usopp: Go Zoro!!  You better win this round, dammit!!!

Luffy: Get Chopper back!!

Sanji: Exactly...
	We still have two rounds left.
	We can get our precious EMERGENCY RATION source...  and something extra to boot...

Luffy: Sanji!!

Tubifex: The dealing is done, now!!
	Time to kick the Davy Back Fight up a notch!!

Chopper: Fry me, cook me, whatever you want!!!

Usopp: Huh?!  Wait, wasn't Chopper supposed to be in the second round?!
	But...  they took him!!

Robin: Yes.

Pirates: Uhyahya!!  That's the best part about this game!!
	"No starting member alterations"!!
	And no replacing players, either!!!

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Tubifex: In other words!!  For the second round, "Groggy Ring," the Straw Hat team
	has only TWO players left!!
	The Foxy Team already has the advantage!!

Usopp: WHAT?!!

Zoro: In that case, you can leave, too.

Sanji: Oh no, after you.  Be my guest, asshole.

Nami: There is no way those two will have any teamwork...

Tubifex: Now, let me explain the rules of the "Groggy Ring"!!

Both: What's your problem?!

Nami: Stop it, you two!!

Tubifex: There are two goals on the field!!
	Toss your ball into the goal, and you win!!!
	However, the "ball" is not actually a ball!!
	IT'S A PERSON!!!
	First off, each team must choose who will be the ball!!!

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Pirate: Hey, which one's gonna be the ball?

Zoro: Him.

Pirate: Hup!

Sanji: Hmm?

Pirate: There's your ball!

Sanji: HEY, THAT'S NOT FOR YOU TO DECIDE!!
	YOU SHOULD BE THE BALL, STUPID MARIMO!!!
	Huh?

Tubifex: Ooh, I can hear their introduction theme being played!
	The undefeated masters of the "Groggy Ring"!!!
	That's right!  It's IMPOSSIBLE for them to lose!!

Pirates: GO GET 'EM!!

Tubifex: Yes, the "Groggy Monsters"
	are walking onto the field...!!

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Tubifex: HERE THEY ARE!!!

Luffy: Wow!!!
	What are THOSE?!

Tubifex: In front, the master of the four-foot dash, Hamburg!!
	Next is the "Tackling Machine," Pickles!!
	And last, the half-giant, half-fishman!!  The "Wotan," Big-Pan!!

(Note: It's difficult to tell the source of "Uo-tan," which is apparently the term for giant-fishman progeny.
	"Uo" can mean fish, and the "tan" could be from many things.  However, the only real use of "Uo-tan"
	in existing Japanese is for the norse figure "Wotan" (Das Rheingold).)

Tubifex: It's a regular lineup of MONSTERS!!
	LET THE SECOND ROUND, "GROGGY MONSTERS," BEGIIIIN!!!

Nami: What is that huge fishman?!!

Usopp: And he's the ball!!!

Foxy: Fweh fweh fweh!!
	Let's see if you can win!!!

Sanji: Any problems?

Zoro: Nope.

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