One Piece Volume 39 : Struggle Chapter 374 Struggle - Page 127 - Miss Golden Week's Operation: Meet Baroque Vol.10 "Let's Try a Little Disguise" - Page 128 - Luffy: GO BACK!!! Nami: What?!! Why now?! All: Why are we going back, Straw Hat?!! Luffy: NOT YOU!!! I'M TALKING TO THE FROG!!! HE JUST JUMPED OUT ONTO THE TRACKS AHEAD!!! Yokozuna: Ribbit ribbit!!! (Note: There is a pun here involving the use of the word for "frog" and "return," which sound the same in Japanese, but since I always avoid having to explain the pun in *real-time* as it were, there you have it. Incidentally, the Japanese are of course well aware of this pun. There are little "charms" you can buy with frogs on them (buji ni kaeru) when someone goes on a trip, meaning "return safely," or "safety frog.") - Page 129 - Chimney: Yokozuna!!! Cocoro: Him?! Frankies: Who the hell is that giant frog?! Luffy: LOOK OUT!! GET OUT OF THE WAY, FROG!!! WE'LL HIT YOU!!! [Meanwhile, on Puffing Tom] - Page 130 - Usopp: Yes!! I got Robin back!!! Franky: Man, I had no idea this run-away plan was gonna happen!! Sanji: They'd never imagine a smokescreen, it's just too stupid. But since we managed to fulfill our purpose without fighting those monsters, it's all for the best...!! I'm not sure it'll be that simple, however... Robin: Ugh... Franky: Don't let down your guard until the cars are completely separated. These aren't your average two-bit thugs. - Page 131 - All: What's that?! Thorn whips?!! Califa: I've got them. Blueno! Blueno: Right. Franky: They're gonna close the gap!! Cut the whips!!! Blueno: FMM!!! - Page 132 - All: WAAAAAHH!! Usopp: Gyaaaaaa!!! They pulled us back!!! Sanji: Where does he get that power?! Blueno: A smokescreen? Now really. - Page 133 - Sanji: Should have known it wouldn't work. Soge King!!! Guard Robin-chan with your life!!! Usopp: Uh... Right!!! Lucci: Don't kill any of the Straw Hat Crew. Those are our orders. Sanji: I hate to ruin all that effort you just made...!!! But you're gonna hafta let go now!!! Blueno: "Tekkai" (Iron Mass) - Page 134 - Sanji: How'd he get so hard? Franky: I told you, they've got weird fighting styles!! Sanji: Really. "Concasse"!!!! - Page 135 - Kaku: {That was a very heavy kick...!! He almost broke the "Tekkai."} Blueno!! Be careful!! He may not have a bounty, but I think he's one of their principal fighters!! Usopp: Uwahh!! No, Robin, wait!!! Robin: "Ocho Fleur" CLUTCH!!! (Eight Flowers) Usopp: Gyaaa!! Sanji: USOPP!!! Wai... why... Robin-chan?!! Robin: How many times must I tell you?! Leave me alone!!! - Page 136 - Kaku: Be careful where your attention lies... Sanji: Aaah!!! Franky: Eyebrow!!! - Page 137 - Franky: Geez, what the hell is WRONG with you people?! Why do you stick up for each other this way?! This was our big chance... TO GET AWAY!!! Sanji: Huh?!! FRANKY!!! - Page 138 - Kaku: ...that was unnecessary... Franky: Hahh. Uhahaha, in your face! Lucci: ...besides, why are you even on their side in the first place? Franky: I can't stand to watch another team with so much hope break up for good again...!!! Lucci: I cannot possibly fathom whom you are speaking of. Franky: HEY!! You guys!! Don't worry about me, I've got a plan!! Find some way to turn back to town when you meet up with Straw Hat!!! Usopp: Franky...!! Robin: What are you... no, wait!!! I'm not going to run!! Sanji: Wait, Robin-chan!! What more do you want?!! We came here to rescue you because we KNOW the situation!!! As long as we do something about the government's Buster Call, you don't have any reason to obey them, do you?!! - Page 139 - Blueno: That Buster Call is precisely the problem. Sanji: Huh... Blueno: "Rankyaku" (Storm Leg) Sanji: AUUGHH!!! Usopp: SANJI!!! Wh... what the?!! He just appeared out of the middle of nowhere!!! - Page 140 - Franky: Blueno just disappeared!! Lucci: He did not disappear. He only used his Devil Fruit Powers to open a door in the atmosphere. The greatest effect of the Door Door Fruit is the "Air Door." And he has employed it to retrieve Nico Robin. Franky: ...what the hell?! My god!! Usopp: Let Robin go!!! - Page 141 - Blueno: "Shigan" (Finger Gun) Sanji: USOPP!!! Robin: Stop this! I have no desire to run!! That should be good enough for you!!! Blueno: I have no choice, if they continue to attack. Robin: ...then let us leave at once. Usopp: WAIT!!! ...it's all right...!! Robin... you'll be all right! ...I know you're still hiding something...!! But... that's all right. ...but you should know a pirate... can't leave the crew without the captain's permission...!!! So you've gotta... - Page 142 - Usopp: TRUST LUFFY. Uwaah!!! - Page 143 - Sanji: Robin-chan!!! Blueno: Don't bother. Nico Robin will not renege on her pact. Sanji: ...and how can you be so sure?!! Blueno: Because a Marine Buster Call made in the past completely burned an entire island to the ground, utterly destroying it. The only person to survive was a very young Nico Robin. Both: What...?! Blueno: So to her, the Buster Call is a nightmare that can never be erased. If the very fear that was implanted in her at such a young age has now been turned against her own comrades, - Page 144 - Blueno: Then she has lost the will to fight back against us. Sanji: And you... you knew that...!!! Blueno: Of course. Sanji: HOW ROTTEN CAN YOU GET?!!! Blueno: This is all for what is right. I have much sympathy for her position. Sanji: Shut the hell up!!!! DAMN IT ALLLLLL!!! - Page 145 - Califa: ...yes, we will be bringing in the two criminals without delay. ...we can now see it up ahead, so we will arrive momentarily. Lucci: I think it will be nice to see it again, after five years. The Island of No Night. Califa: Please open the gates for us. Lucci: Enies Lobby. - Page 146 - SBS Corner D: Oda-sensei, hello. Poop. Here's a question for you: Isn't that a thief right in the money exchange office, panel four of p.180, Volume 34??!! What's up with him? Poopy. P.N. Roids O: Gross, what's with all the poop?! If you love poop so much, why don't you BE poop when you grow up?! (must have dreams) Anyways, they say you shouldn't judge people based on their appearances, but let's face it. He's totally a burglar. Of course, I assume he'd be after Luffy's money, but it was a twist of fate (not twist of poop) that he should come across some very powerful pirates. He probably overheard about the bounties, and ended up unable to do a thing about it. D: Oda-sensei! If you don't want your urchin packed into sushi, answer this question! On p.65 of Chapter 360 in Volume 38, Zoro is stuck in the chimney. But if he slipped up there, he would either fall off the side or go in feet-first, I think. So how did he get jammed in there like a sea anemone?? P.N. Mahito O: First of all, Zoro got knocked out of the Galley-la mansion into the sea by Lucci. After he got out of the water, soaking wet, what could have happened to him? Zoro: "Shit, I got tossed pretty damn far." "Where am I now?" "All right, I'll take a look from that chimney up there." "Humph." "Yikes, I almost fell INTO the chimney." "Man, that hole goes in deep." "Let's take a bit of a look-see." "Hmmmm" "Slip" "Thwup!!" - Chapter 374 End -