One Piece 540

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One Piece
Chapter 540: Level Six, the Eternal Hell
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[Top text (right): The climax of the Impel Down arc! With colour pages!!]
[Side text (left): If you listen carefully, you can hear it... a world filled with adventure!!]

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[Insert text: And now... Level Six!!]
Luffy: Move it, move it, move it~~~!!! // You're in the way~~~~~~!!!
Transmission: The traps have failed!! // The gaolers have been annihilated!!
Hannyabal: Nghh!!!
Transmission: The three criminals, "Straw Hat Luffy", "Okama Queen Ivankov", and "Revolutionary Inazuma"... // ...have penetrated into Level Six!!!
Luffy: A~~~~CE~~~~!! WHERE ARE YOU~~~~?!! // ACE~~~~~!!! I'M HERE TO SAVE YOU~~~~!!!

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Luffy: Ace...............!!!! // *pant* // *pant*... // *pant*... *pant*... // He's not here!!! ......*pant*
Ivankov: You are absolutely sure this vas the cage?!!
Gaoler: Absolutely!!! I... I am most certain!!
Jimbei: ............!!
Inazuma: We must have been just a little too late...!!
Jimbei: (That straw hat... so this is the man...!! // He truly is here!! He invaded Impel Down... and made it all the way down here to Level Six......!!!

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Jimbei: You are Straw Hat Luffy, correct?!!
Luffy: ?! ...Yeah...
Jimbei: They left but moments ago!! Go after them!!! Ace-san was taken away through the lift!!
Luffy: .........Old guy, who are...
Jimbei: If you hurry, you can still make it!!! // Now move!!!
Luffy: I see!! Well, thanks!! ......Though I don't know who you are!!
Jimbei: (Unbelievable!! One or two lives should not be enough to get a man down here...!! He truly conquered all five Hells?!)
Inazuma: That must be it! Let us go!! / ...The lift cabling is exposed!!
Ivankov: The operational circuits are locked!! It's no use!!
Luffy: So we can't use it?!!! // Well, whatever... if we climb up here, we should be able to reach the top... // ?!!

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Luffy: What the - ?!!! // !!!
Ivankov: But of course... / They vould not let us make our vay up that easily!! // It seems the lift is out of the question... / They have beaten us to it!!
Luffy: We'll just have to go back up the way we came down!!! // ......!!! // ?!!

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Luffy: Hey... the stairs are blocked off!!!
Ivankov: So they mean to shut us in by blocking both of the exits...!! // Ve must destroy this, or there vill be no getting out!!!
Luffy: Ahh!
Ivankov: !!!
Inazuma: There is gas flooding in!! Could it be poison?!
Prisoners: Whoa, whoa!! I dunno who the hell you guys are... / ...but you better not be getting us mixed up in this too!!!
Ivankov: Hmmmm~~~ Silence!! Level Six!!!

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Luffy: I don't give a damn what it is!!! // HAAAAAAHHHHHHH~~~~~~~!!!
Inazuma: It would appear to be sleeping gas.
Ivankov: Could you be just a little less reckless, boy?!!!
Inazuma: They mean to put us, along with the entire population of this floor, to sleep, and be done with us.
Ivankov: But this is the only exit remaining to us...!!!
[Box: Monitor Room]
Gaolers: Vice Chief, the sealing down of Level Six is complete. / The sleeping gas we are using is extremely powerful!! There is nowhere for them to run to.
Hannyabal: Tell our forces to stand by above, fully armed, just in case. / Do we have contact with Chief Magellan yet?!
Gaolers: We do!!
[Box: Impel Down Floor 1, outside the Lift]
Ace: !!!

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Ace: LUFFY~~~~~~~!!!!
Magellan: You heard the report. / Now I suggest you cease any meaningless resistance. // Your brother, too, is a pirate... He was doomed the moment he set foot in here......!!!
Ace: (...I hoped so badly that it was just a lie...!!! // Why did you come here, Luffy...?!!!)
Magellan: How on Earth did you survive, Straw Hat......?!!!
[Box: Level Six]
Prisoners: Guahhh! Damn you! / Do something about this! // Do somethin... nghh............!!
Inazuma: This Floor will soon be flooded completely with gas...

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[TN: Is that the "Choki-Choki no Mi", or just an interesting set of weapons?]
Prisoners: What's with this guy?!! He's cutting up the floor like it was cloth!! // Whoaaa...!! He used the ground to block the gas from entering!! / Not half bad!!
Ivankov: Inazuma ate the Choki Choki no Mi, and became a Scissorman.
[TN: Yay, I was right~]
Ivankov: He can manipulate that vhich he has cut as though it vere paper......!!!

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Luffy: Hey!! I need to go up there, Crab-chan!! / If you close off the stairs, I can't go after Ace!!
Inazuma: There was no other method of stopping the gas. / We can hardly escape if we are rendered unconscious.
Luffy: If that's what I have to do, then I will!!! / I'm not letting them kill Ace!!!
Inazuma: Do not speak such nonsense. The enemy's strategy was simple yet successful. / We are completely trapped here in Level Six. We have no means of escape.
[TN: Can you not cut a path up through the Floors with those scissors? ~~]
Luffy: ?!!
Ivankov: This is all that ve can achieve... robbing the enemy of their means of observing us......!! // Logically speaking... ve can no longer make it in time. / The Ace-boy has been swiftly transported directly to the surface using the lift... // ...vhilst ve stand trapped, with enemies awaiting us outside!!! The military escort vill be swift... / Take a look at your Vivre Card. // I daresay it is no longer even pointing directly upwards...
Luffy: ......!!

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Ivankov: By now, he has most probably... // ...been handed over to the Marines already.
Luffy: ?!!
Ivankov: Out of respect for your feelings, I vill assist you... / ...in escaping from this prison in vhatever manner possible.
Luffy: ..................
Ivankov: But the Ace-boy is already on his vay to Marine Headquarters. / You should give up... No, leave the rest to Vhitebeard...
Luffy: If that's where he's going...
Ivankov: ?!
Luffy: ...then that's where I'll go!!!
Ivankov: ?!!
Luffy: Marine Headquarters!!!!

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Ivankov: Do not be ridiculous!!! The greatest battle this vorld has ever seen is about to take place there!!! // Do you have any idea how powerful Vhitebeard is?! Vhat of the Admirals and Vice-Admirals standing ready to fight him?! / Or the Shichibukai?!! Do you know of their strength?!! How many lives do you think you have?!!
Luffy: If I gave up... / ...I'd regret it forever!!! // I'm going!!
Ivankov: ........................!! // This sensation... I have felt it many times before...!! // It is precisely... the vay it feels to face Dragon!!!)
Inazuma: Resolution is one thing... // But none of us is going anywhere while we are trapped on this Floor.
Crocodile: ...If you want to get out of here... / ...then release me from my bonds.........!!
Luffy: ?!
Crocodile: I could open a great hole in the ceiling of this room!!!
Luffy: Ah...
Crocodile: How about it, Straw Hat.........? Kuhahahah...
Luffy: You.........!!! // You were locked up in here?!!!

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Luffy: Crocodile!!!!
[Box: Former Royal Shichibukai / Former Leader of Baroque Works (Mr. Zero) / Pirate / Sir Crocodile]
Crocodile: I had lost all interest in emerging into the outside world...... // But now I hear that Whitebeard and the Marines are to do battle? / To think the day would come when I might have a chance at taking that man's head... // I have great interest in this war...!!! / With the aid of my power... both you and I could escape this place.
Luffy: ............!!
Crocodile: Not a bad deal, you agree? Both of us would stand to gain.
Luffy: Don't screw with me!!! You're the bastard who tore up Vivi's whole country!!!
Crocodile: All in the past. I no longer have any interest in that land.

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Ivankov: Let us free him, Strawhat-boy. / This man vould certainly be a valuable asset to us. / All the more if you truly mean to head to Marine Headquarters itself...!!!
Luffy: Whaaat?!! Iva-chan!! Look, all right, this guy...
Crocodile: .........!!! Ivankov...
Ivankov: It's been quite a vhile... Croco-boy...
Luffy: You guys know each other?!
Ivankov: Ve did, a long time ago... back vhen he vas still an up-and-coming rookie......!! / Don't you vorry. Even if he vere by some chance to attempt to betray us... / I vould suppress him myself. He is not a man to be trusted, but... // Mmmmfufufu... I know a precious veakness of his...!! // Though if he agrees to lend us his power... then I vould be villing to kep quiet about it, hee-hah!!!
Crocodile: !! // Why, you...!!!
Prisoners: Whoa, whoa... if you're freeing him, then free me as well!!! // Me too, me too!! I have a bone to pick with Whitebeard!!!
Ivankov: Silence. DEATH WINK!!
Prisoners: Guahh!!

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Jimbei: I beg of you all!!!
Ivankov: ?!
Luffy: ?
Jimbei: Take me with you as well!!! // I swear that I will be of use!!! / *pant* // I know Ace... have known him ever since he first joined the Whitebeard Pirates. / He has even told me tales of you, his younger brother...!!! // I am locked up here because I objected to this war!!! / I want to save Ace-san myself!!! So please!!! Let me die a glorious death!!!

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Ivankov: Ooh~~~~~~... // Another man to be reckoned with...!!
Luffy: Okay.
Inazuma: What? Are you sure? We know nothing of how dangerous this man is, or of his personality!!
Luffy: It's okay. Get him out of there, please.
Jimbei: .........I am in your debt!!!
Prisoners: Yeah!! I'd be in your debt as well!! // I beg of you all!!!
Ivankov: Silence!! DEATH WINK!!!
Prisoners: Guohh!!!

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Ivankov: ...No~~~~w then, I think we have vasted enough time......!!! // Let us break our vay out of this jail with force!!! Hee-hah!!!
Prisoners: Hey, let us out too!!!
Jimbei: I won't let you lay your filthy hands on old man Whitebeard, Crocodile!!
Crocodile: Shall we battle to the death right here and now, then?
Inazuma: So including the former member, we have two Shichibukai...
Luffy: Two?! Who's the other one?
[Insert text: This is one crazy team!!]