One Piece 486

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One Piece
Chapter 486: Piano
"Where Are They Now?" Shot 4: Yokozuna Doesn't Fight The Sea Train Any More

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[insert text: Escaping Thriller Bark!!]
Absalom: All right! // And close it......!!
Hogback: Are you sure? What about Perona...?!
Absalom: We couldn't find her anywhere, so what are we meant to do? // Ahhh... Right! We're out now... / Invisibility off!!
Hogback: A magnificent escape, fosfos.........!!
Absalom: ......Damn, but my knees were knocking back there... // What the hell was "Tyrant Kuma" doing on Thriller Bark?!

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Hogback: Ah, yes, Absalom.........!! / The truth is, before the zombies were all destroyed... // ...Moria's personal servant zombies, Gyoro, Nin and Bao, told me everything! / Kuma was here to let us know the name of Crocodile's successor in the Shichibukai......... // But the name isn't the important part... / Apparently, it's a guy called Blackbeard, but what's really scary is what the guy's pulled off!! // Read this article!
Absalom: ..."Fire Fist Ace", Commander of the Second Division of the Whitebeard Pirates... // ...has been captured and taken to the great prison "Impel Down"...?!!
Hogback: Ace... he's famed as one of Whitebeard's best men... The government have won themselves a fine card!!!
Absalom: Indeed...
Hogback: They could easily try to use this to bring about the end of the Age of Pirates.........!!! // This is certainly no time for Moria to be lying around!!
Absalom: Well... I can certainly see where you're coming from... // But to be honest, all I want right now...... is to find myself a bride.
Hogback: ......All right, just find me a corpse that's to your tastes...
Absalom: Not a zombie, all right?!!! // I want a living woman for my bride!!!

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[box: One day after Moria's defeat]
Usopp: Man, I guess we ended up all sleeping a whole day right out there in the courtyard...
Franky: Well, ya know, we did stay up that whole night fighting!
Luffy: Sanji, I'm hungry~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!
Sanji: Go eat some cheese or something.
Luffy: Cheese isn't enough!! I can't run on cheese!!
Sanji: Well, why don't you take the cooking stuff over to the courtyard? / The Victims' Association guys don't want to leave the place, so we're all gonna eat over there.
Usopp: Why the hell are you so lively anyway?!! // There's totally something wrong with that... it's weird...
Lola: Sorry about that! Everybody's so happy to finally be in the sun after all these years... // They're all just lying there sunbathing! // Do you have enough ingredients to work with?
Sanji: We got back all the stuff we lost and plenty more besides - it'll be fine!
Lola: Yes, but who could have brought them back, I wonder? A very kind gesture...

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Lola: And the treasure is simply piled up in mounds... / Even if it were Christmas-time, this is really rather excessive!
Nami: Ahh, heaven~~!♡
Luffy: Hey! This glass bracelet is so cool! / I'm taking it!!
Usopp: Hey, hey, you can't just go around taking it like that, you know... // R - Right, Nami-san...?
Nami: Oh, I don't mind! It's just glass, it's not precious or anything.
Usopp: Oh... So that's how it is...?
Nami: But I'm not letting you guys have any, you got that?!!
Lola: You saved us all, we wouldn't go around taking things from your ship, Namizou...
Nami: Huh?
Usopp: Ahh! What a cool knife!! ......Oh, but it's got jewels in it...
Lola: Hm? I just said that without thinking... "Namizou"... Who's that? // .........Come to think of it, this is rather odd. ...I feel almost like this isn't the first time we've met...
Nami: Could it be......... Lola?!
Lola: ...Yes, why? Did I actually introduce myself?
Nami: Aahhhh!! So it was you!! Lola!! It's great to see you again!!
Usopp: L - Lola... wait a minute... don't tell me this is that boar-zombie -
Lola: Hm?
Nami: Heheheh, you don't remember, huh? I'll tell you all about it later!

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Nami: Anyway, here, you can have this! As thanks!!
Lola: Huuh?? Really?! Thanks?
Luffy/Usopp: NAMI'S GIVING TREASURE AWAY~~~~~~~!!!
Franky: I'm going on ahead, you think this will be enough?!
Luffy/Usopp: A STORM'S COMING~~~!!
Franky: Hm? A storm? Really?!
Pirates: Ahhhh... this is great......... // I can feel the sunlight all over my body... // It's so great to be alive.........!!
Luffy: He~~~~~y! We've brought food~~~!!
Pirates: Strawhat! // Ahhh!! You should have asked us, we would've carried it!! // We can't have our saviours working like this!!
Luffy: Is Zoro up yet?
Pirates: He's still sleeping like a log... he's in the mansion.

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Franky: Hey, I've got the stuff you asked for.
Luffy: Chopper!!
Chopper: Ohh!! Thanks!!
Franky: How is he?
Chopper: I've never seen Zoro hurt this badly... // His life was really in danger.........!! // Something really must have happened... while we were all still collapsed...
Brooke: ............
Robin: Well, I don't imagine that man would simply have left of his own accord.
Usopp: And it's pretty weird that Luffy's so healthy and stuff...
Luffy: Yeah, I don't get that part either! Hahaha!

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Pirates: Actually, the truth is...!!! I saw it all!!! // I saw it too! The whole thing~~~~~~!! // We'll tell you everything!! Exactly what happened back there!
Sanji: .........!!
Pirates: Ungh!!
Sanji: Come on.
Luffy: Hm? // Sanji?
Pirates: Wait, wait, why?! You were pretty cool too, you know!! // Asking him to take your life instead of that guy's!
Sanji: Shaddup!!! // Just tell me, and quick. What happened after that? / What happened after I was knocked out.........?
Pirates: Well, that Shichibukai had another crazy power, you see! // He put his paw on Strawhat, and something burst out... / ...It was all the "damage" that Strawhat had taken!!
Sanji: The damage.........?
Pirates: Like a huge ball of agony!! Just touching a tiny bit of it, that swordsman, he... / ...the scream was incredible...

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Sanji: ..................
Pirates: ...And that's how it went! // Sorry to say it, but I was sure that swordsman was dead after that! // I actually cried!! // I cried so hard!!
Sanji: ......I see... / So that's how come Luffy's all chipper and Zoro ended up like that... // ...Man...that guy...........
Flashback!Zoro: It was... nothing.........!!!
Pirates: All right!! We've gotta tell the rest of the crew this beautiful tale -
Sanji: WAIT!!! // Don't you go running your mouths off with that stuff!! / The guy didn't put his life on the line to have people fawning over him, you know!!! // And besides... how do you think Luffy would feel if he knew all that pain he took on himself had gone and hurt his own nakama?!!

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Pirates: Wh - whaaaaaa~~~~~~~~~?!!
Sanji: YOU STILL JUST WANT TO TELL THE STUPID STORY?!!! // As long as everyone's safe... that's all that matters. / I'm gonna go eat.
Pirates: .....!! / Th...... th - th...... these guys are just so cool... // And that captain's just amazing...
Robin: ......... // I see.
Pirates: !
Luffy: Hey!! You guys, come on!! // You said you knew something back there, right? / What was it?!
Pirates: Don't go askin' us that stuff. // Everyone's safe... that's all that matters.

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Luffy: ? / What?
Robin: Hehe...
Everyone: ITADAKIMA~~~~~~SU!!!
Pirates: MNNNMNMNNNGH~~~~~~!!! // I've never eaten anything so good!!! // We haven't eaten a proper meal for years~~~~~!! // It's so great to be alive~~~~~~~~~!!
Sanji: I've made plenty!! Don't go leaving leftovers, you hear?!!!
Brooke: To be able to eat your food again, Cook-san...!! / It's so tasty my cheeks could sag!
[TN: It's a Japanese saying; the dictionary I'm using translates it as "fit for a king" - but of course then the pun is lost...]
Brooke: Though of course!! I don't have any cheeks~~~!!!
Franky: JUST SHUT UP AND EAT!!!
Pirates: Hahahahah! That skeleton's funny!

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Brooke: Yohohoho... my, my... ah, excuse me!! *bu~~rp* / Being able to eat to my heart's content yesterday, and again today... I think... // ...I might be getting fat!!!
Frank: Can bones do that?!! ...Wait, just shut up!!!
Pirates: Hahahah, the skeleton's great!! // How can you move, anyway?!! // Ah, well, who cares!!
Brooke/Franky: C'mon!! // DIIIIIINEEEEEER!!! // Oh, baby!! // DIIIIIINEEEEEER!!! // Oh, yeah!! // DIIIIIINEEEEEER!!!
Chopper: We didn't even toast, but it turned into a party anyway, huh? // ...Even with all this noise, he's still fast asleep...
Nami: And he's usually the toughest of us all...
Luffy: Hey, Chopper, here!! // This is for Zoro!! Shishishi!!
Chopper: Luffy...

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Luffy: Drink up!!
Nami: DON'T FEED HIM!!!
Luffy: Oh, c'mon, he loves sake, it'll make him better!!!
Chopper: What kind of medicine do you call that?!!!
Luffy: ...How about meat?
Chopper: Okay, okay!! Thanks for the sentiment, that's enough!
Brooke: Now for some background music...
Luffy: .........Ahh, there's a piano in here!
Sanji: Hey, I thought you were a violinist, weren't you?
Brooke: Yohohoho... I can play any instrument you like! / Ah, by the by... just so you know... // ...The truth is, I saw it all...!! / I was incredibly touched by what the two of you did back there...
Sanji: ..................
Brooke: Ah, nakama are wonderful things to have............!!
Sanji: ...Don't bother saying "the two of you"... I just ended up looking like an idiot.
Brooke: No... you were fully prepared to do just as he did. // Now, shall I play a song...? If you have any requests...
Sanji: Hmmm... Is anything fine? Then...
Brooke: Ahh!♪ Going to deliver~!♪
Sanji: WHAT HAPPENED TO ASKING FOR REQUESTS?!!

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Robin: "Binks' Sake"......... I think I know this song from somewhere... it's very nostalgic...
Pirates: Hoi, hoi!
Luffy: Hey!! Brooke!! // This song!! I know it!! // Shanks and the guys used to sing it!
Brooke: All the pirates of old used to sing this song... // Through hard times... and through good times.........!! Yohohoho!

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Luffy: Hey... you're gonna be my nakama now, right? // Yeah?!!
Brooke: ..................
Luffy: I mean, you've got your shadow back! You're not gonna disintegrate in the sun or anything now!
Brooke: .........Yes, about that... // There's one thing... I haven't told you...
Luffy: What's that?
Brooke: I made a promise......... with a "nakama" of mine. / I'm afraid I must give that the highest priority. / ...Otherwise... I could not call myself a man.........!!
Luffy: Yeah... // ...You're talking about Laboon, right?! We know about that! // Franky told us all about it!!
Brooke: Mm... / Yes... That's right... "Laboon"... He was a gigantic whale... // I left him at a certain cape...

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Luffy: That's what I'm saying, Brooke! / We've been to Twin Capes, we met Laboon!! Seriously!!
Brooke: ......What?
Pirates: Hmm?! What's up with the skeleton?! The song slowed down all of a sudden!!
Luffy: We knew all about how Laboon had been waiting there for fifty years, waiting for his nakama to come back! // We were so surprised!! We never thought that the last surviving one of the pirates he was waiting for... // ...would actually turn out to be you...!!
Brooke: .........
Luffy: And you never forgot your promise, either! // When he finds out... / ...Laboon's gonna be so happy...!!! Shishishi!!
Brooke: .........W... Wait a moment...!! / Yohoho...!! That was a surprise............!! Out of the blue... // Are you telling me you really... met Laboon...?!
Luffy: Yeah!
Brooke: Even after fifty long years...?!

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Brooke: Laboon... he's still...!!! Still waiting there for our return, there at the cape...?! / Laboon......!!! // Is it really true......?
Luffy: Yeah.
Sanji: We can vouch for it too!! We really met him!
Usopp: Yeah!
Brooke: ! // .........!! Was he... well.........?
Luffy: Yeah, he was good.
Brooke: He must... he must have grown.........
Luffy: He was like a mountain!
Brooke: Yohoho......... / That I must see......... Back when we left him behind, you know... / ......He was still only the size of a small boat... he was rather cute... // He could be a little difficult sometimes, but... he loved music... / ...He was a good kid... // ...Even now... if I close my eyes, I can see his face... // Oh - I don't have eyelids. // But he's floating there... in my mind... // ...............!!!

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Brooke: So he's all right......!!! // He's really all right.........!!! // Aaaaahhhhhhh......!!!
Luffy: Hey, come on, skeleton! Play the piano some more~~!!
Brooke: Never in my life have I felt such joy...
Flashback!Pirates: Hey, check out this whale... // He's tagging along after the ship! // Must've got separated from his herd, huh...? / Poor little thing... the ocean's a big place.........!! // He looks so sad, too, the little guy... he's still just a kid...

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Flashback!Brooke: Cap'n Yoki!! Shall we play him a little tune?!!
Flashback!Yoki: Brooke!! Good idea! / Men, instruments at the ready!!
Flashback!Brooke: Yohohoho... we can bring a smile to any kid's face! Let's show him what the Rumba Pirates can do!!
Flashback!Pirates: All right!!
Flashback!Laboon: ?
Flashback!Brooke: One, two, // three, four - !
[insert text: Memories flooding back...!]