One Piece Volume 44 : Let's Go Chapter 422 Rob Lucci - Pages 46 & 47 - Chapter 422 - Rob Lucci - Page 48 - - Page 49 - Marine: Vice Admiral! How do we recapture Nico Robin upon the Bridge of Hesitation now?! Vice Admiral: We don't. Marine: ...but sir!! Vice Admiral: Over 15 years ago... 500 of a country's soldiers were captured by pirates. The pirate captain demanded the throne in exchange for the lives of the soldiers. Terrified for the lives of their men, the kingdom was on the verge of surrender, when a single boy, sent by the World Government... infiltrated the pirates' ranks. - Page 50 - Vice Admiral: Where he snuck in among the 500 soldiers, and killed every last man of them!! Enraged by the sight of his figure above the mountains of dead, the pirates opened fire on the boy, but he stood through the smoke and flames, and took the head of their captain, thus ending the standoff...!!! This boy, only 13 years old, with bullet scars on his back, was an agent of CP9, a dealer of dark justice. In the history of CP9, he is said to be most cold-hearted "killing machine" to ever join their ranks. Marine: ...do you mean to say... Vice Admiral: So long as HE is on this island, and charged with keeping Nico Robin's custody, - Page 51 - Vice Admiral: There is no need for us to act. We will simply destroy everything ASIDE from the Bridge of Hesitation. Soldiers: It's not working!!! The Sea Train won't go at all!! Where's the damn conductor?! Holy shit, look out!! They're even hitting us over here now! Hurry!! Sanji: Hey man... If this underwater tunnel gets flooded, we're basically gonna drown, ain't that right? Soge King: Can't you hear the water, Zoro-kun?! Zoro: Hmmm, yeah... something's wrong... Soge King: OH...!!! I KNEW IT!!! - Page 52 - Zoro: Nami and the old lady are being chased by a wall of water!!! Soge King: You see?!! The entire tunnel is gonna be submerged!!! Chimney: Hey!! It's more pirates!! Gonbe: (meow) Nami: Can't you guys do something about this water?! Sanji: NAMI-SAN... IS RUSHING TO MY BREAST!!! Soge King: THAT'S AN OPTIMISTIC WAY OF PUTTING IT!!! Zoro: Crap!! We're gonna be trapped!! I can't cut it. Is this not stone or steel? Sanji: An underground tunnel is bound to need extra strength to fight the water pressure. No doubt it's armored with incredibly thick steel supports. Soge King: Then there's nowhere to run!!! All: Aaaahh!! Kyaaa!! - Page 53 - Lucci: {I'm nearly losing consciousness. I have to avoid... falling into the water...} - Page 54 - Luffy: (shhhn...) (blup!!) Nnng... (snap!!) Windows: (clatter clatter...) - Page 55 - Lucci: Hahh. Hahh. Marines: Who the hell is that?! An animal?! No, a Power-User!! Lucci: Hahh. Hahh. {It's a ship deck.} Marine: It came from over towards the bridge!! Lucci: {I'm saved...} Marine: I thought I saw a giant FIST!! Lucci: (shururu...) Marines: ...yep, Devil Fruit Powers!! I asked for your name! Now answer!! STOP, you fools!! Put your guns away!!! Captain!! ...the man before you is Rob Lucci of CP9!! - Page 56 - Marines: Wha... You mean, THE Rob Lucci...?!! P... Pardon us!!! We're sorry, please don't kill us!!! Aaaah!! Lucci: Keep your mouths shut, before you disgrace yourselves any further. Luffy: Gomu Gomu Rocket!!! Marines: What's THIS now?! Here comes someone else!!! - Page 57 - Marines: That guy's worth 100 million!! It's Straw Hat Luffy!! He's fatter than I thought!! FIRE!!! Luffy: Like that'll work!! "Bone Balloon" is HARD!!! (blop!!) Gomu Gomu - Pages 58 & 59 - Luffy: "GIGANT AXE"!!!! Marines: Aaaah!! Owaaaah!!! What's going on?!! Is he a giant?!! Lucci: (tup tup tup!) (thomp!!) (bwoosh!!!) - Page 60 - Lucci: (GRRRRLLL!!!) Luffy: Yeaaaowwww!!! Lucci: (msh...)(msh...) Luffy: (blup) Oryaaa!!! Lucci: (thwack!!) - Page 61 - Luffy: (bom!!) Gomu Gomu... "GIGANT WHIP"!!! Lucci: (hop!!) - Page 62 - Marines: Aaaaah, look out!! Ship: (crack crack) (crack) Marines: The mast is broken!!! Here it comes!!! Those two are INSANE!!! Lucci: "Shigan" "Bachi" (Pick) Luffy: Urk!!! - Page 63 - Lucci: It seems that your increase in power comes at a cost to your speed. Luffy: Gwaah!! (Bgooom!!) Lucci: "Rankyaku" "Gaichou" (Bird of Victory) Marines: Uwaaah!!! Gyaaaa! - Page 64 - Marines: That ripped a hole in the metal deck!!! The ship could go down!!! Luffy: Hahh. Yikes, that could have split me in two!! Vice Admiral: What's all this then. Marine: Vice Admiral, sir!! Straw Hat Luffy and CP9's Rob Lucci are engaged in battle, and destroying the ship...!! Vice Admiral: ...Rob Lucci is in no danger of dying. All fleet guns, focus on Ship 4. Open fire in five seconds. Marine: Sir, you must be joking!! There are a thousand of our men on board that ship!! - Page 65 - Marine: Augh!! Aaaah!! Oh god!! Vice Admiral: Could you protect the future from a terrible criminal you allowed to escape in just a split-second's hesitation...? Fire. - Page 66 - SBS Corner D: YOU ARE AN OKAMA, RIGHT? From Anonymous O: NO WAY, HONEY!!! D: Oda-sensei, I have a question. In Chapter 405, "Power," from Volume 42, when Franky uses his "seek-and-destroy cannon" it says BF 36 on his shoulders. That stands for Battle Franky 36, right?! Well?! P.N. Soge Q O: Yes...!! That's right. As you will know from reading Franky's flashback, Franky created his own line of 35 battleships called Battle Franky. After his ships were used to hurt someone he loved, and he used that same sense of technological wizardry to fix his own body, he carved the symbol BF-36 into himself and put an end to his career of shipbuilding. After that, he became a dismantler. D: I've been kind of wondering for a while, what was Kumadori's mom like? from Yasuhiko O: Actually, she's still alive. Profession, assassin. Name: Kumadori Yamanbako (Note: "Yamanba" means mountain hag, and also refers to a particularly extreme subgenre of the "ganguro" girl subculture.) - Chapter 422 End -