One Piece 535

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One Piece
Chapter 535: Pals

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[Insert text: The Vice Chief...]
Hannyabal: .........Honestly, how thoughtless...!! // (If you had only got past me and caused some trouble further down... // ...I could have blamed it on the Chief... // I told you you could just go on past... / ...but you had to go on the attack... idiots...)
Transmission: ...This is the team in front of the route to Level Three! / We have suffered a number of casualties due to an explosive attack. / ...Yes... we have successfully captured "Buggy the Clown" and "Mr. 3"!!
Buggy: ......Ghh......hhh...!!
Mr3: ...O...www ... www ...

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Buggy: Y...!! Y... You were... strong... / You were... surprisingly strong.........!!! *pant*......!! Damn you, Hannyabal.........!!! // *pant*
Mr3: ...I don't want......... to be tortured......!!! // If that's all that's left... I'd rather just bite my tongue... here and now...!!! // ...All right... I'm gonna bite... I'm gonna bite...
[Box: Meanwhile, on the same Floor, Mr. 2...]
BonClay: MOVE IT, YOU PUNKS~~~~~~!!! // I said out of my wa~~~y!!!
Guards: Don't let Mr. 2 get away~~~~~!!!
BonClay: (I couldn't hope to beat a guy like that!! I can't go dreaming about the impossible!! If I'd stayed back there, I would've died, 200%!!!)
[BubbleSFX: BAM!! // POW!!]
BonClay: Urabure Swan Butoukai!!! // (I have... // ...to run!!!) // *pant* / *pant*... // (Don't turn around!! I have to run!! There's no other option!!)
[Box: On the same Floor... Luffy VS Magellan]
Magellan: Nghh!!

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Magellan: ............!! / ......To think that you could bring me to my knees...
Luffy: Aaaaaaghhhhhhhhhh...!!!
Magellan: *cough* / *cough* // A cornered rat truly is a terrifying thing...!! // However, with that poison left on your hand, this is over... it will slowly steal all bodily functions away from you...
Luffy: *pant*... *pant*...!!! // Gomu Gomu no... / *pant*
Magellan: You must be in great pain... truly, I pity you......!!!

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Luffy: TWIN...!! // *pant*
Magellan: Doku Fugu!!!
[TN: "Poison Puffer"]
Luffy: JET PISTOL!!!
Magellan: Unghh!!
Luffy: !!

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Luffy: !!! // ......!!
Magellan: ?!! // Hydra...
Luffy: JET PISTOL!!!!
Magellan: ?!!
Luffy: Aaghh!!!

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Luffy: *pant*... Ungh...!!! // Huh?! / *cough* *cough* // Mist?!
Magellan: Doku Gumo.
[TN: "Poison Cloud"]
Luffy: *cough* / ............!! // *cough* // *cough* // ?? / *cough*
[BubbleSFX: rub // rub!]
Magellan: Fufufu...!!

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Magellan: Are your eyes becoming hazy......?
Luffy: .........!!
Magellan: Your ears beginning to act strangely......? // Those hands... will be of no further use to you.
Luffy: *pant* // *pant*
Magellan: The poison will eventually...
Luffy: *pant* // ? // *pant*
Magellan: ...steal everything from you.
Ace: OI!!! GAOLERS!!!
Gaolers: .........

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Ace: Tell me the truth... // *pant* // ......Just what the hell is going on up there...?!!! // *pant*
Gaolers: .................. // .........We~ll... // Nothing.
Magellan: .........
Luffy: *pant* / *pant*
Magellan: ......... / Your strength of will is formidable.........

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Luffy: Nguaaahhhhhhhhh!!! / *pant* // *pant* // Haghhh!!!
Magellan: .........
Luffy: Unghhh!!
Magellan: Truly, a pitiful sight...
Luffy: It burns...!! // *pant*... *pant*...!!! Aghhh!!!
Magellan: ...Are you quite done now......?!
Luffy: Aaaahhhhhh!!!

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Magellan: ...This is my judgement upon you... intruder. // For the next twenty-four hours... you may suffer... and then you shall plummet... // ...into true Hell.

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Magellan: .........With the quantity of poisoning you have suffered... // ...it can no longer be counteracted...!!
Luffy: ............!!! // A...ce.........!!!
Guards: Chief Magellan!! Excellent work!! / What is the status on the defeated Straw Hat Luffy?!
Magellan: ...He will die, sooner or later... but I suppose we cannot simply leave him there. // Throw him into the Central Tower of Level Five!!
Guards: Yessir!
[TN: Well... I guess that's one way to get to Level Five... >_<]

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Guard: *pant* *pant*... / Ch... Chief Magellan...!!
Magellan: !
Guard: It appears there has been some kind of incident... in front of the route to Level Three...!
Magellan: What has happened...?
Guard: We're still not sure on the details......!!
Prisoners: Hey!! ...Hey!! // *pant*... This one's a goner... // .........He's either dead... // ...or he's been cryogenically preserved into the future......!! // Bweheheh! Don't be stupid.

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Prisoners: Ah... / My finger fell off. // Hahahahah... You're frostbitten, huh. I guess you're done for, an' all. // Aghhh!!! Dammit, is this some kind of bad joke?!!! // I can't even eat a damn piece of bread...!!! // *pant* // *pant*...
[BubbleSFX: clatter clatter...]
Prisoners: ......? Hm? Hey - check it out. // There's a new guy here......!!!
[Box: Level Five: the Freezing Hell]

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Prisoners: Hey!! What's your name?!! // What kind of bounty have ya got, new guy?!! // !! // ......Ah... // Ah, this guy's no good... he's already gone through... // ...the "Poison Judgement"...
[Box: In front of the route connecting Levels Three and Four]
Magellan: ...............!! // What exactly is the meaning of this?!!! // Hannyabal, even you, of all people......!!! // The entire team, wiped out...?!!!

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Magellan: Open your eyes, Hannyabal!!! Tell me what happened here!!!
Hannyabal: Guahh!! Guaaahhhhh!!! Ah - Ch - Chief!! Let go of me~~~~!!! // Guahh...!! ...M... My deepest apologies.........!! / I let my guard down.........!!!
Mr3: I... I don't want to be tortured~~~~~~~!!
Buggy: Dammit, that okama bastard... Just leaving us here like this~~~~~~~~~~!!!
Hannyabal: The culprit... was an okama who used kenpo......... / He took us all somewhat by surprise...
Magellan: Enough excuses. ......I suppose he escaped to the higher floors...?
Guard: The prisoner in question was the man known in Crocodile's "Baroque Works" organisation as "Mr. 2"...!! / Well... I say "man"...
Magellan: Yes, yes...
Guard: He was originally being held on Level Three... It is surely but a matter of time before he is recaptured......

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Magellan: What of the uprising on Level Two?
Guard: Reports suggest it has been successfully suppressed......
Magellan: ...Send all the forces currently assembled on Level Four straight on up to Level Three. / Give full command to Sadi-chan, and release the Demon Guards! I leave the rest to you.
Guard: Right... And what of these two captured prisoners...?
Magellan: ...Do as you wish with them...!! // Get this place cleaned up... // ...and return Impel Down to a proper working state as soon as possible...!! / ...I'll be heading to a "private place"...
Guard: ...Your diarrhoea... Understood.
Hannyabal: ...Oi!! You lot, get on your feet and get looking for the final escaped prisoner!! Hurry it up!!
Guards: ......!! O... Owwww... // Y... Yes, sir!!! Right away!!! // Ah - What shall we do with these two, then?
Hannyabal: Hmm... I have some things I would like to ask them. Open up the interrogation room. // I will take charge of the two of them.
Guards: Understood.

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Guards: Then we'll take our leave...
Hannyabal: Quite.
Buggy: Unghh! // ......*pant*... *pant*... That was a close one...
Mr3: It... looks as though we've escaped being tortured at least...!! / But... what are we going to do now...?
Not!Hannyabal: Isn't that obvious...?! There's not a moment to waste...!!! // We have to hurry... // ...and get Straw-chan out of there right away!!!

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Buggy: S... Save Straw Hat?!! Are you insane?!! / He's been taken out by Magellan's poison!
BonClay: .........
Buggy: You heard them just now - he's been taken down to Level Five already!! / There's no chance of him even surviving at this point!! You want us to go and die like dogs as well?!!
BonClay: Dog's death or toad's death, I'm not too fussed.
[TN: Bad Japanese pun. (Toad is "kama", "not fussed" is "kama-wanai". I daresay they're both taking cues from "okama" ~~.)]
BonClay: The moment I ran from Magellan and turned my back on Straw-chan... // My life was already left there by his side...!! // Rather than stay there and be defeated and captured alongside him... I chose to run...!! Because that way, as long as there was the tiniest hope left for Straw-chan...
Buggy: .........
BonClay: ...I would be able to return, and I would do all that I could to rescue him!! That was my pledge as I ran away...!!!
Buggy: It's all very well swearing that or whatever, but look, you've managed to escape now!! / Why the hell would you go and throw your life away for the sake of a guy like that... / ...when you've only just managed to escape death already?!!
BonClay: BECAUSE WE'RE PALS!!!! // I DON'T NEED ANY REASON BEYOND THAT!!!!
[Insert text: Damn right!!]