One Piece 527

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One Piece
Chapter 527: Crimson Hell
CP9's Independent Report, Vol 32: "Father and Son Plot the Obliteration of CP9"

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[Side text: The Blugori's giant axe approaches!!]
Blugori: Uhoho!!!
Buggy: Bara Bara Emergency Escape!!!
Blugori: !
Buggy: Nnnnngyaaaaahhhhhhh!!!
Blugori: ?!

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Blugori: ...............?! // ?!
Buggy: Gyahahahahahahah!! // Time for you to fall and split your head open!!! // Midair Spinning Super Circus!!!
Blugori: !!!

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Buggy: Ngyahahahah!! // Give up yet, stupid sea-gorilla?! // Gahh!! It didn't even faze him!!! // Agh - not good!!! // Hey - stop punching me already!! // !!!

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Buggy: ...............!! // I - I guess you've got a little better since I last saw you, huh...?
Luffy: These guys are tough... what exactly are they, anyway?!
Buggy: They're the combatants of the sea, the Blue Gorillas - also known as the "Blugori"! / Don't let you're guard down, there are still four - // YOU BEAT THEM?!!!
Luffy: ...But I won't have time to keep on fighting all these guys!!
Prisoners: No way!! That guy...!! He beat the Blugori!! // Hey!! Who the heck are you?!! // You've gotta get us out of here!! Please~~!!!

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Guard1: Wasn't there only supposed to be one escaped prisoner?
Guard2: ......? Yes, that's correct...?
Guard1: Well, I could have just been seeing things...... / But I thought I saw two shadows...... // Either way, in front of Shared Cell #10... / ...five Blugori have just been taken out!!
Guard2: Five of them?! Impossible...! / There are no prisoners being held in Level One with the power to take on the Blugori!!
Buggy: [aside]?!![/aside[ // YOU WANT TO SAVE ACE?!! // [aside]whaaat?!![/aside] // (Shhhhhhhhhhhh!!! They'll find us!!)
Luffy: You're the one who was screaming...
Prisoner: Please, you guys... just get the key to our cage...
Buggy: Oh, shut up already!!!
Luffy: You know about Ace, then?
Buggy: Sure... Unlike you, your brother happens to be a real swell guy!! // Hell, he ended up as one of our drinking buddies for a while. / That's why I was pretty upset when I heard the news. / The Marines must be crazy... messing with one of Whitebeard's own nakama...!!

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Luffy: I want to go to a place called "Level Five". That's where Ace is, right?
Buggy: Like I care!! You want to go, you go there yourself! Since when am I a friend of yours?! // I ain't going near a crazy place like that! // See ya! If you aren't gonna get outta here, then I'll run for it on my own!
Luffy: Even though there are over ten battleships right outside? You think you can make it?
Buggy: ?!! // T...?!! Ten battleships?! Of course.........!! They're all extra-prepared for Whitebeard's next move... // ......I guess I picked a bad time to pull this......!! I'll just have to buy myself some time, and... // ! // (Wha...?!)
Luffy: Well, whatever... I guess I'll ask someone else......!!
Buggy: .........
Prisoners: Please... the key......!
Buggy: ......!! N - No, it couldn't be... // That's just totally ridiculous......... // (It couldn't be...) // .........
Luffy: Well, then, see you! Good luck escaping and everything!
Buggy: ......... // (But it is...!!!)

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Buggy: WA~~~~~~~~~~it a minute there, Straw Hat~~~~~!!!
Luffy: !!! // What now?!!!
Guards: There they are!!!
Buggy: They spotted us~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!
Luffy: What are you shouting like that for?!!!
Buggy: H... Hey... that thing on your arm!! It... It looks pretty nice!! Can I have it?!!
Luffy: What's this all of a sudden?! // I got this from Nami!
Buggy: I'll tell you how to get to Ace~~~~~~~~~~~!!
Luffy: You mean it?!!
Buggy: Sure - then you'll give it to me?!
Luffy: Yeah!! Fine by me!!
Buggy: All right~~~!!! // Well, first things first - let's shake off those guards!! // Grab onto my feet!!
Luffy: Your feet?!

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Buggy: Now, run at top speed!!! // I'll lead you to the entrance to Level Two!!!
[Text: Buggy the Clown's "Bara Bara" ability... / He can separate his body into multiple pieces, and control them all individually; a "Splitman".]
[Labels: The feet don't fly // Effective area]
[Text: The pieces can only move within a limited area... as such, / his feet alone must always remain firmly on the ground...!!]
Luffy: Level Two?! That's not right! It's Level Five I want to go to!!
Buggy: Get with the program, Straw Hat. You can't just skip straight there!! // Listen up, okay...? Here in Impel Down... / The first floor down, where we are now, is called "Level One"...

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Buggy: ...and then Level Two, Level Three and so on go further and further down; the lower down you go, the more dangerous the criminals are kept on that level......!!! // The lowest I've ever been is Level Four, when I was taken there for the inferno torture... / Even I don't know a thing about anything below that!!! // From what I've heard, all the prisoners on Level Five are worth a hundred million at least... they're all ridiculously powerful!! // But some prisoners say that Level Five's not the end of it... that there's still more below even that!! / A floor where they keep the kind of monsters who were so evil they've been erased from the face of history altogether... Well, it's only a rumour, but there's always the chance they've sent Ace down there. // Either way!! Level Four is as far as I can help you!
Luffy: I see! You're awfully nice all of a sudden.
Buggy: Gyahahahah! Well, of course I'd be nice to the guy who just told me he'd hand over the Treasure Mark that points the way to Captain John's - / Aghh!!! // (I... I spilled it!!!)

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Luffy: So... you're in here because you're weak, right?
Buggy: OH, SHADDUP!!! LEAVE ME ALONE!!! // (...H... He didn't notice...?!! Good thing this guy's such a blockhead...)
Luffy: Huh... so this bracelet thing was a kind of treasure map, huh...? / I didn't know a thing about that!
Buggy: !!! // So you WERE listening!!! Dammitall!!! Well, then, I guess I have no choice!! I'll have to take it from you by...
Luffy: Here - you can have it in advance, then.
Buggy: Huh? // Why, you...!! Even though you know what it is... you're actually going to give it to me...?!!
Luffy: Sure. Saving Ace is way more important than a thing like that!!
Buggy: ......Besides, come on...!! If you give it to me now, I might just run off and leave you in the lurch, you know?!!
Luffy: Oh, right! But, well, you said you'd show me the way, didn't you?!
Buggy: ?!!

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Buggy: (You can't just look at a guy like me like that.........! I'm a crafty, black-hearted rascal to the end, you know.........?!! // You can't just...!!! You can't just go trusting a guy like me...!!! // The treasure map I've been searching for all this time... Captain John's Treasure Mark!! ......!! // And this guy's... just gonna GIVE it to me......!!! // I'm in your debt...!! Straw Hat......!!) // *sniff* // (Now, then, how to make my swift escape...? Gyahahahah!!) // NGBRUAAGHHH!!!!
Luffy: Hmm?! // Is going through this wall a shortcut?!

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Luffy: All right... leave it to me!!!
Buggy: That's not~~~~~~~!!! // GUAHHHHH!!!
Guards: ?!! // !!! // Who the hell are......?!!! // That's Buggy the Clown, the escaped prisoner!! And...... // Who's that?! There's two of them!!
Buggy: ...............!! // (This is... the gaolers' room...!!! Which means...!! // We REALLY don't want to be going this way!!!) // Straw Hat!!! Stoooooooooop!!!

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Luffy: ?!! // What's this place?!
Guards: Monitor room!! There really is another one of them!! Right now, they're both...
Luffy: A forest... inside the gaol?!! // A bright red forest...!!! / And there are tons of people down there, too!
Buggy: Those are prisoners!!! And this isn't just a "forest"!!! / Those trees have leaves that cut like blades... // They're "Kenju"!!
[TN: From the kanji, literally "bladed trees". Well, it's to-the-point...]
Buggy: The grass down below is sharp as needles... it's "Haribarisou"!
[TN: "Needle-needle Grass"]
Buggy: And the prisoners are chased endlessly by poisonous spiders and the fearsome guards, forced to run around this forest, stained with blood from the grass... // ...suffering the pain of being sliced from every direction......!!!

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Buggy: This is the Level One "Crimson Hell"!!! // THIS is Impel Down!!!
Prisoners: Somebody help meeee... // Help meeee... Aaaaghhhh... // The paaaaaain~~~~~!! // The terrible paaaaain~~~~~!!!
Luffy: That really does sound like Hell......!!! // Is Ace going through something like this too...?!
Buggy: Of course... this is perfect!! We should just keep on falling!!
Luffy: What?! We'll be sliced to pieces!!!
Buggy: Oh, no, I won't!!! / You just hang on and watch!! // Throw my feet down below!!!

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Prisoners: What is that...?!!
Buggy: Gyahahahahah!!! As long as there's a foothold, I'm laughing!!!
Luffy: Whoa, that was close...!!

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Buggy: We don't need a staircase to get to the lower floors from here!! / We don't even need a key to open the doors!! // I've just remembered - in the Crimson Hell, there's a certain "way out"... / ...prepared for those prisoners who can't take the pain any longer!
Luffy: A "way out" of Hell?!
Buggy: Look - it's right there!! Not that anyone actually tries to use it...
Luffy: A hole!!
Buggy: The reason being... this "way out" leads straight down into Level Two.........!!! / An even more terrifying Hell than the one they'd be leaving behind!!!
Luffy: Whoa!! It's pitch black!!
Buggy: Some folks might dream of escaping Hell and making it back to the surface... / ...but there isn't a single fool idiot enough to go plunging the other way!!
Luffy: Brilliant! That sounds perfect!! So I just have to jump straight down?!!
Buggy: That's right... but down below...
Luffy: Hup!
Buggy: Wha - ?!! Hey!!!

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Buggy: HEEEEEY!!
Luffy: Sure is deep... what's at the bottom?
Buggy: That hasty idiot......!! // Doesn't he even know the meaning of "fear"...?! // Oh, well... // At least now... even if I run away... / ...he can't come chasing after me any more~~~~~~! // Nyeheheh! // Gyaaahahahah!! I've got rid of him! It's finally mine... the Treasure Mark I've always longed for!! // Like hell I'm gonna be your guide! Farewell, Straw Hat!! You go die on Level Three or Four or wherever!! // Nghh!!! // !! // A Blugori!! Fool!! I'm a Splitman - you can't cut me, no matter how you - // Hm?
Guards: The two of them appear to have fallen down to Level Two. // Requesting confirmation!!!

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Monsters: Graaaaaaaghhhhhhh!!! // Ngyaaarrrhhhhhhhh!!!
People: ...............!!! // What the...?!! The monsters are going crazier than ever...! // Are they hungry or something......?!!
Mr.3: (..................)
[Text: Undersea Gaol, Impel Down / Level Two / Floor of the Beasts of Hell]
Mr.3: Not that I have the energy to even be afraid any more......!! // We'll only end up as food for those beasts in the end anyway...!!!
[Insert text: Could it be...?!]
[TN: Yaaaaaay~~~! Baroque Works are BACK IN ACTION!]