One Piece
	 Volume 37 : Tom-san
	  Chapter 351
	   Klabautermann

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Chapter 351 - Klabautermann

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Franky: I'm going to help you take apart that ship.

Usopp: SHUT THE HELL UP!!!

Mos: Boss!!

Usopp: I'm not going to let you do that!!!
	THE MERRY
	IS MY SHIP!!!

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Franky: No...
	it's not a ship anymore!!!

Usopp: Huh?
	What?

Franky: I asked you what you were going to do...  when you fixed the ship up...
	If you were intending to sail it under the waves and go down with it,
	I wasn't going to stop you.
	But if you want to take this back to East Blue,
	I'm gonna hafta stop you, pal.

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Franky: This ship won't even make it to the next island.
	Ships are born under the implicit promise...
	that they will bring you from one shore to the other...!!!
	A ship that can't take a man to the other shore anymore...

Usopp: AH!!
	STOP!!!
	HEY!!!

Franky: IS NO SHIP ANYMORE!!!

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Usopp: STOP IT!!!

Women: Boss!!

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Usopp: YOU ASSHOLE!!!
	GET AWAY FROM THE SHIP!!!

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Franky: NGGG!!

Usopp: Uhf...!!

Franky: You dumb bastard...

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Franky: If you still can't tell...!!!

Usopp: Ack!!!

Franky: Then use your own two eyes...!!!
	AND SEE FOR YOURSELF!!!!

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Usopp: Hahh.
	Hahh...

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Usopp: Hahh...
	...ng!!
	Hahh...
	Urgh!!
	...hahh...
	Hahh.
	Hoo!!
	Hahh...
	Hahh...
	...hahh...
	Hahh...
	Cough.
	Cough.
	Hahh.
	Hehehe...
	I'm sorry, Merry...
	Hahh...
	I'll fix you up...  real soon...!!!

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Usopp: And I'll keep fixing you!!
	Again!!  And again...!!!

Mos: Sob!!

Franky: Knock it off, Long-nose!!
	You saw the bilge.  The keel's snapped, the planks beside it are slipping off, and the ribs are falling apart!!
	It's going to fall apart as soon as it hits a wave!!
	And your crappy patchwork isn't helping at...

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Usopp: SHUT UP ALREADY!!!
	I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT FROM YOU!!!
	IF YOU DON'T SHUT YOUR TRAP, I'LL BLOW IT UP, YOU STUPID THUG!!!

Franky: What?!!

Usopp: I...  already knew.

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Usopp: I KNOW THE MERRY'S-!!!
	ALREADY DONE FOR!!!!
	I already...
	knew that...!!!

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Usopp: When I heard the diagnosis...  I remembered what I saw that day.
	At first I thought it was a dream.
	I didn't think anything so ridiculous could be real...!!
	One night...  I heard the sound of a hammer coming from the ship,
	where there shouldn't have been anyone...!!
	The fog was thick, but there was clearly someone there.
	The next morning, the ship had been poorly mended, without a clue of who had done it.

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<<Luffy: But it's not the Flying Model anymore, Usopp.

<<Usopp: How did the person who fixed it...
	know the Merry's old shape?

Usopp: It was all a mystery...
	But for some reason there were words left in my mind.
	Maybe HE said them,
	or maybe it was my imagination.

<<Voice: Don't worry.
	I'll carry you all a little longer.

Usopp: ...this might sound ridiculous...!!
	But I...  I think...
	That might have been an incarnation of Merry...!!!

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Usopp: I'm sure the ship was already at the breaking point then...
	Maybe he appeared to tell us that.
	You probably think I'm crazy.
	...I don't care if you don't believe me...

Franky: Believe you?  Tell me...
	Did it look like a sailor
	carrying a hammer?

Usopp: ...huh?
	How...
	Did you know that?

Franky: That's because you saw...
	a Klabautermann.

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Usopp: Klabar...?

Franky: The "Klabautermann" is a legend told among sailors...
	A spirit that resides only in ships that are given the most care...  an incarnation of the ship.
	He holds a hammer in his hand, and wears a sailor's raincoat.
	When the ship has an emergency, he runs about letting the sailors know.
	Sometimes he saves many lives, they say...
	But this is the first time I've ever heard about one from a guy who's seen it first-hand.

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Franky: A ship thanks its riders for the care it's given.
	I bet this ship wanted to take you guys to the "other shore."
	If it had a crew that it wanted to carry so badly that it would assume the form of a human...
	Then it must have been one happy ship.

Usopp: Merry...
	...I see.
	Then it's true.
	The person who talked to me
	Was you,
	...Merry.

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Franky: Unbelievable...!!
	So you knew your ship had reached its end,
	and you still fought with your friends.

Usopp: ...it's not as simple as that.

Women: Men are all so clumsy!
	They're so stupid!!
	Huh?
	Boss.
	It sounds like someone's here.

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