One Piece
	 Volume 42 : Pirates vs. CP9
	  Chapter 400
	   The Releasing Key

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Miss Golden Week's Operation: Meet Baroque Vol.32 "Let's Do Baroque Works Again"

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Crew: AAAAAAAHHH

Cocoro: Ngagagagaga!!

Chimney: Waterfalls!!

Gonbe: Meowww!!

Crew: Aaaaaaa!!

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Cocoro: {...this really takes me back, Tom-san...}
	Ngagaga!!

<<Tom: I am utterly proud
	of giving my help to the man named Roger!!!

<<Luffy: I'm Luffy, the future Pirate King!!

<<Chimney: Really?!

<<Luffy: Yeah.

Cocoro: That Roger fella...
	Was stupid like this one is...
	That's why you gave 'im your help...
	And here we are again,
	alla Tom's Workers helping out a pirate boy...!!
	Ngagagaga.
	{You'da done the same,}

Luffy: We're gonna crash!!

Cocoro: {Wouldn'tcha Tom-san...}

Crew: Gyaaaaaa!!

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Soldiers: Gyaaaaaaa!!
	Run for it!!!

Spandam: They're here.

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Spandam: THEY'RE HERE!!!
	Dammit!!  You're coming with me!!

Robin: Ah!
	Ung...!!
	{If only I could get these Seastone manacles off...!!}

Spandam: All right, CP9, I release you!!
	Crush those fools right here in the Judiciary Tower!!!
	I permit their slaughter!!
	Lucci!!  You come with me!!
	You're going to be responsible for protecting my life!!  Got that?!
	Funkfried!!

Funkfried: (paoon!!)

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Funkfried: (ooo)
	(paon!)
	(paooo!!)

Spandam: That's it.  Good boy.

[Elephant Sword]
[Funkfried]
[(Zou Zou Fruit)]

(Note: Zou = elephant)

Funkfried: (paooo)

Spandam: Now, we're heading for the Gate of Justice!!!  Let's see you take this woman back  (shhing!!)
	IF YOU CAN, Straw Hat!!!

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Family: Franky's all right!!
	The Straw Hats have finally made it
	to the Judiciary Tower...!!
	Boss is no longer in captivity!!

Zambai: He's gonna join the fray!!  That's what Boss is like!!!

Mos: Get 'em, Boss!!

Family: Good luck, Straw Hat!!!

Franky: ...hey?!  You all right?!!
	Old lady Cocoro!!  The kids!!  What are you doin' here?!!
	You know Rocketman is way too dangerous to be ridin' around!!
	Th... though I am free now, because of that...!!
	Hey, c'mon!!  Hang in there, Cocoro!!!
	Please, stick with me here...!!  Don't die!!  Don't you die on me!!!

Cocoro: Urgh...

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All: I got a nosebleed!!

Franky: This isn't the kind of thing that ends with just nosebleeds!!!

Luffy: All RIGHT!!  We made it!!!

Franky: Straw Hat.

Luffy: Thanks, Monster Lady!!
	Hey guys, get up!!  This is nothing!

Guys: L... look, we're not made of rubber...  R-regular... flesh and blood humans...  (hahh...)
	(hahh...) ...don't just survive... a crash like this...
	UNHARMED!!!!

Luffy: You're all fine.

Franky: Yeah, you folks are pretty damn weird, when you get down to it.
	Just so we're clear on that.

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Luffy: There's a staircase over there!!
	We're going to get Robin!!

Fukuro: Wait.

Luffy: What is THAT?!

Fukuro: Chapapapapa...!!
	We've been invaded!
	Going to the room ahead
	will not help you find Nico Robin!
	Lucci has taken her to the Gate of Justice.

Luffy: Huh?!

Fukuro: Oh... and the Chief, too.

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Fukuro: They are heading there now, but I cannot tell you the way.
	We in CP9 cannot allow it.  The order has been given to kill you all!!
	Chapapa.
	If you do not defeat us,
	you cannot free Nico Robin.
	Behold.

Luffy: A key?!

Sanji: To what?

Fukuro: The Seastone manacles
	keeping Nico Robin prisoner!

Chopper: Seastone??

Nami: It's a stone that nullifies Devil Fruit Powers!
	It has the same effect as dropping you in the sea.

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Chopper: So that's why Robin's not using her powers!!
	She must be so frustrated!!

Fukuro: Even if you were somehow able to free Nico Robin,
	Seastone is as hard as diamond,
	so you will never get her hands free.
	If you don't mind that, go ahead and give it a shot.
	Chapapa.
	(fyew)

Luffy: GIVE IT HERE, THEN!!!
	...looks like he can use that skill too.

Fukuro: Don't be hasty...!!
	I haven't said whether this key is real or not.

Luffy: WHAT?!

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Fukuro: It could be the key to a different set.
	Chapapapa...
	Inside this tower are five CP9 members, including myself.
	Each one has a key... and is waiting for you.

Zoro: So we won't know which one is the right one
	until we beat all of you, take the keys, and try each one on Robin's cuffs?

Sanji: What a stupid ploy for time...!!  You're gonna use this opportunity to take her to the gate!!

Nami: But going for Robin instead will make things quicker!
	If we can take back Robin herself first,
	we can get the keys later!!
	Forget THOSE bums, let's go!!

Fukuro: Chapapapa.  Very clever, you are.
	But you're forgetting one thing.

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Fukuro: I can throw this key
	right into the ocean!!  Chapapapapa!
	We're just giving you a chance.
	Goodbye.
	(bam!)

Chopper: Ah!

Luffy: Dammit!!
	Wait!!!

Zoro: No!!  YOU wait!!!

Luffy: Hgagagaga!!!!
	Fngogagagaga!!!
	Leggome!!!

Zoro: Stop!!  Just wait a second!!  Wait until we come up with a gameplan!!!

Sanji: Is "Lucci" that guy with the pigeon?

Franky: Yeah.

Sanji: If he's together with Robin-chan,
	we should at least let Luffy go ahead.
	Luffy!  You go on and beat the Pigeon Man!!

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Sanji: Without Luffy, there are six of us... and five of CP9.
	We'll get the five keys for Robin's handcuffs,
	and follow Luffy!!!

Soge King: If Robin-kun passes through that gate, all is lost.  This is a race against time.

Luffy: Fngigigi!!!

Zoro: Losing only wastes our time.
	YOU GOTTA WIN, EVEN IF IT KILLS YOU!!!

All: YEAH!!!

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Spandam: Wahahahahaha!!
	No rescue is coming for you, Nico Robin!!
	Besides,
	they don't even know how to GET to the Gate of Justice!!!

Luffy: They were just here;
	I know I'll run into them somewhere!!
	I won't let you get to that Gate!!
	ROBIN!!!

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Franky: Hahh.
	Hahh.
	Damn, this isn't a good thing to have happen before a fight...
	Where's their larder in here?!
	Thanks to the bottle and a half I used on the "Coup de Poo,"
	I've already wasted over two bottles of cola in one day!!
	I can't take on CP9 without my max of three bottles!!
	Hey!  That kinda looks like it.

Fukuro: Chapapapapaa!!
	I am "Fukuro the Silent," lover of rumors!
	Do you want my key?

Franky: Shit...!!  Not before I refill on fuel...!!!

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Soge King: Nope.
	Nope.
	Nope.
	Geez, nobody's here...!!
	{Which is just fine with me.}
	Wahaha!!
	They turned tail and fled, rather than face me!!

Jabura: (gzzzrz)
	(zzzguh...)

Soge King: {He's sleeping...  Is that one of the CP9s...?!
	Huh?
	H... he's sleeping with the key right on the ground...!!!
	Could this be my uber super lucky chance?!}

Nami: What's in this corridor?  It looks like a dungeon...
	Hahh.
	Hahh.

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Kumadori: Yoyoi!!!  Yoi yoi!!!
	Accursed pirate, this meeting was one HUNDRED yeeeears in coming!!!
	However yet,
	Yet however you must waaaaaaaait!!!
	YOYOI!!!!

Nami: {Shut up...!!}

Sanji: How about THIS one?!!
	Hahh...
	Hahh...
	Shit, man...
	Nobody here, either!!

Califa: (click...!)
	Welcome, sir.

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Califa: Shall I prepare... some tea?

Sanji: Ooh.
	Yes pweeze.

Kaku: You already have
	your blade drawn...

Zoro: It just won't stop groaning
	about how much it needs blood.

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