One Piece 538

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One Piece
Chapter 538: Level Five Point Five, Newkama Land

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[Insert text: The price of healing...]
Flashback!Ivankov: Ten years of your lifespan...!!! // From the life that you vould otherwise have lived from this day forth... / ...I vill take ten years and use it here... Strawhat-boy.
Flashback!Luffy: *pant* / *pant* // All right.
Flashback!Ivankov: ...However, even vith those ten years subtracted from your life, I cannot guarantee that you vill be saved...!! / All that this vill do is boost your chances of survival from zero percent... // ...to a mere two or three percent; no more than a tiny "possibility".

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Flashback!Ivankov: From there on out, vhether you ultimately live... / ...or die...
Flashback!Luffy: *pant* / *pant*
Flashback!Ivankov: ...depends entirely upon your own villpower!! // If you die, that means the poison prevailed. // If you live, then it is you who prevailed. // Vell, then, enjoy your trip...
Flashback!Luffy: .........
Flashback!Ivankov: ...TO THE VALLEY OF DEATH!!! // "EMPORIO: HEALING HORMONES"!!!!
Flashback!Luffy: ?!!

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Flashback!Luffy: .................................!!! // Aannghhhh......!!! // NNNNGGGGUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

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BonClay: .........!! // ......He's been screaming like this for ten whole hours...?!! / Straw-chan......!!!
Ivankov: "Villpower" and "hormones" - together, these two elements... / ...allow a human body to manifest its own "Vital Force".
Luffy: GUAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
BonClay: ........................!!
Ivankov: In other vords, all that I have done is drawn out the latent power of the Strawhat-boy's own immune system... / ...bolstering it to a level vhere it is capable of fighting against the invading poison. // Right now, cycles of destruction and regeneration are taking place at incredible rates throughout his body......!! // Only if he can endure this suffering to the end... vill his life be saved.........!! // If you are so vorried about him, then by all means take a look.
BonClay: ..................
Luffy: NGUAAAAAHHHHH...!!!
BonClay: Straw-cha... // ?!!

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BonClay: AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH~~~~~~~!!! // H... H... He's dying in there!!! / His body... it's falling apart... it's... it's... it's...!!! / No, he's dead already...!! / It's terrible!!! You have to do something!!! Something, anything, just save him, please......!!! / Unchain him... stop all that bleeding...!!
Ivankov: .........
BonClay: ...Anything, anything but that.........!!!
Ivankov: SILENCE, FOOL!!!
BonClay: Unghh!!!
Ivankov: Saving him is exactly vat I am doing!!!

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Ivankov: Do not take the power of Life so lightly!!!
Luffy: GUAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!! / *cough*!!
BonClay: ?!!
Ivankov: Do you have any idea vat it means to recover a life from certain doom?!! // I am no God, no Buddha! "Miracle Vorker"? / You people may call me vat you vish, but let me tell you this... // Not once have I saved the life of a fool who relies only upon the help of others. Oh, I have saved countries drowning in poverty... / ...even countries defeated in battle and left in ruins... but all that I truly did vas to draw out their own vill to live! // Miracles can only descend upon those vith the vill to carry on!!!! // Do not take them so lightly!!!!
BonClay: !!!

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Ivankov: ...In other vords, my abilities come from the "Horu Horu no Mi"... / I am a "Hormone-Creating Being". // Gender, body temperature, pigmentation, growth, emotional state... / I am an engineer of the human body, vith the power to remodel people from vithin. // Now, you strike me as a natural "Newkama" to begin vith... // ...but all my "candies", the people you see here around you, have truly transcended gender. / Those who you see as men may originally have been vomen......... // Those who you see as vomen may once have been men... yes... / Mmmmfufufu!! Truly this is a land of miracles!!!
Newkamas: WHOOOOOOOOOO!!
BonClay: I see...!! So it was your "hormones" that turned that man into a woman......!! // ...but the more I find out about this place, the more I feel convinced that I can't possibly still be in that gaol!! I must be dreaming...!!
Ivankov: This is no dream...!!! This is the Land of Dreams!!!
BonClay: Mmphh!!

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Ivankov: You see my candies over there? Once, they vere all vandering prisoners. / They found their vay to this place purely by chance... for it has many entrances.
BonClay: .........
Ivankov: From the field of needles, coated in blood... to the lair of vild beasts... / From the roaring inferno... to the resting place of the dead...... / In other vords... // ...ve can use these connections to procure supplies from all through the gaol. // And the gaolers never realise a thing! / How could they begin to guess that a paradise like this exists in the bowels of Hell?! / Ve, on the other hand, can monitor the goings-on outside as ve vish. / Ve have one of the same Monitor Den-Den Mushi that they use in their monitor rooms down here as vell, you see. So all the information from outside... // ...gets passed straight through to us down here. Ve steal newspapers from the trash-cans, so ve know all about the outside vorld as vell. // And as for your escapades vith the gaol's first-ever intruder, the Strawhat-boy... // You can be sure ve enjoyed every minute of it! It vas top-class entertainment!!!

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BonClay: ...But where?! Where are you hiding a place like this?! / How do you have all this space?!
Ivankov: ...Vell, of course, all this space never existed to begin vith. / A long time ago, there vas a prisoner vith a Devil's Fruit vhich gave him the power of "tunnelling". // It is said that he vas the original founder of this Prisoners' Paradise. / Like a great big ants' nest hewn into a gigantic piece of rock... // ...this place exists in the space between Level Five and Level Six. / Smack bang in between!
BonClay: Wait, wait... "Level Six"?!! A floor like that actually exists?!
Ivankov: Mmmmmfufu... that's right. Most people don't know about it... // ...but it exists all right. That's vhere the really dangerous prisoners are kept!! / Every one of them vith either a death or a life sentence...!! Level Six, the "Eternal Hell". // Those prisoners have caused truly inhuman incidents that the Government has seen fit to cover up completely...!!

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Ivankov: ...That, or incidents that vere... inconvenient for the Government themselves. // For instance... You know how you people rampaged your vay through the Levels all the vay down to Level Four...? / Vell, if you had tried that just a little vhile ago... I doubt it vould have gone quite so vell for you.
BonClay: ?!
Ivankov: This gaol vas once home to yet another mighty force to be reckoned vith, you see... The Head Gaoler of Impel Down... // Shiryuu of the Rain. His strength vas comparable to that of Chief Varden Magellan...!! / Indeed, considering the... limitations Magellan has on his vorking hours, Shiryuu vas the more dangerous of the two.
BonClay: As strong as Magellan...?!!
Ivankov: It vas these two "stars" of Impel Down that made the gaol truly "impenetrable"...!
Flashback!Magellan: Shiryuu.........!! // What are you doing...?!!!
Flashback!Shiryuu: .........What, you ask?

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Flashback!Magellan: The prisoners are not here for you to go around slaughtering for pleasure, Shiryuu!!!
Flashback!Shiryuu: .................. // What's the big issue... // ...if I slice up a few pieces of trash.........?
Ivankov: He vent on a massive rampage, slaughtering any number of prisoners for no good reason. / As such, he vas labelled a menace... and is imprisoned still on Level Six.
BonClay: ...But I've never even heard about an incident like that...!! Even if it was before my time here...
Ivankov: The most dangerous voman ever to be imprisoned here in the entire Pirate Age, Catarina Devon... / Colossal Battleship San Juan Volf... Mighty Drinker Busco Shot... / The kinds of pirates whose names alone are enough to make those who hear them quiver in fear...
[TN: For the record, that's "San Juan Wolf". The "V" is just Ivankov being Ivankov =p]

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Ivankov: The kinds of legendary people who caused incidents so cruel that they vere suppressed from even appearing in the newspapers... that's who you'll find in Level Six...!! / Your former boss is down there, as vell... he's quite the crazy one.
BonClay: .........!! Zero-chan?! .........Crocodile?!
Ivankov: Yes, I hear you fought alongside him against the Strawhat-boy in Alabasta, did you not? An interesting relationship you two have...
BonClay: Such enmities mean nothing in the face of Friendship!!
Ivankov: Hahahah! Let's see... the "Knight of the Sea, Jimbei", the Shichibukai, is being held down there as vell.
BonClay: Whaat?!
Ivankov: And of course, the very person your Strawhat-boy friend came here to save... / ...Second Division Commander of the Vhitebeard Pirates, Portgas D Ace!! / From vat I heard over the communication systems, they're brothers, aren't they?
BonClay: ...That's right. Straw-chan told me he came here to save that man.
Ivankov: Mmfufu...! Successfully infiltrating the gaol alone vas a superhuman feat... but I'm afraid now... // ...he vill have to give up on that goal... // His own life comes before his brother's, after all......!!! And since the time has passed midnight already...... / ...the execution date is upon us; the Ace-boy vill be executed at 15:00 today... He vill be taken away to Marine Headquarters vhen morning comes.........

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Ivankov: ...So, let's see... / ...in seven or eight more hours, the Ace-boy vill no longer even be here in Impel Down. // Meanwhile, the Strawhat-boy's poisoning vill take around two more days to heal... and even if he survives that long... / ...he vill have to sleep for a further three days in order to regain his energy... by the time he awakens, it vill all be over.
BonClay: Wait a minute... Straw-chan has to survive another two days of THAT?!!
Ivankov: A normal person could never make it!! As I said, if he survives, then that vill be the miracle! // You need to get a little rest yourself as vell, you know! // Get some food in that belly of yours, and then get back to bed! / I'll show you vhere to find a quiet room!
BonClay: ...............!! // No!! I'll stay in Straw-chan's room!!!
Ivankov: !
Newkamas: ...A... Are you sure about this...?
Ivankov: .........
Newkamas: You really shouldn't get your hopes up... // Th... this is crazy... what's the point?!!

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Ivankov: ......... // ?
Luffy: GUAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Ivankov: ............!!!
BonClay: HANG IN THERE~~~~~~~~~~~!!! STRAW-CHA~~~~~~~~~~~N!!! / *cough* // DON'T GIVE UP~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!! // HANG IN THERE~~~~~~!! / STRAW-CHA~~~N!!
Newkamas: ..................
BonClay: DON'T GIVE UP~~~~~~!! // DON'T GIVE UP~~~~~~!! // DON'T GIVE UP~~~~~!!
[Box: Level Three]
Sadi: Why can't you even... mmmmmmm~~~~!♡ // ...find a single stupid okama?!!
DemonGuards: ..................!!!

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Newkamas: DON'T GIVE UP~~~~~~!! STRAW-CHA~~~~~~~N!! // STRAW HAT~~~~~~~!!! // DON'T GIVE UP~~~~~~!!!
[Box: Three hours later...]
[Box: Chief Warden's Office]
Gaoler: Urgent report for the Chief!! / Reports from Level Five suggest that Straw Hat Luffy...
Magellan: Hm?
Gaoler: ...has vanished completely!!
Magellan: ?!
[Box: Level Four]
Someone: Ehhhh?!! V... Vice-Chief Hannyabal, what are you doing here?!
Hannyabal: Mmmmmphhhhh!! (Get me down from here!!)
[Box: Seven hours later...]
[Box: Level Six]
Jimbei: Ace-san... I... don't know too much about that woman, but......... // Surely you'd be better off... assuming she was lying...
Ace: ...What, you want me to believe she came all this way just to lie to me?!!
Jimbei: ............!! // .........!!
Ace: ......!! ...I... I'm sorry... but look, Jimbei...

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Ace: This is just what my brother's like... He's always doing crazy stuff like this......!!! // Ever since he was a kid......... He never does anything but make me worry about him... / ...That idiot...!!!!
Jimbei: .........
[Box: Eight hours later...]
Domino: Chief Warden! Chief Warden Magellan, good morning!
Magellan: I'm on the toilet!!
Domino: Well, please hurry! // The time has arrived for Portgas D Ace... // ...to be transported to his execution!
BonClay: Blood... // His voice... it's...
Ivankov: The pain should not cease at any point during the healing process......!! // In other vords, if he stops crying out at this point... it means...

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BonClay: ............!! // .........!!
Ivankov: It's a pity... but still...!! // Twenty hours...!! He put up a brave fight...
BonClay: Straw-chan......
[BubbleSFX: CRAAAASHHH!!]
[SFX: BOOM!!]
Everybody: ?!! // Aahhh!!
[SFX: BOOM!!]
BonClay: Huh...?
[SFX: BOOM!! BOOM!! BOOM!!]
[BubbleSFX: CRASH!! // CRASH!!]
Luffy: Nnnghhhhhhhh...
BonClay: ...Wha...?

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Luffy: FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!
Everyone: ??!!
BonClay: STRAW-CHAN?!!
Newkamas: WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Ivankov: STRAWHAT-BOY~~~~~!!! // I... It's impossible, surely............?!! What's going on?!! // It hasn't even been a single day...!!
[Insert text: He's back!!]