One Piece 604

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One Piece
Chapter 604: Ever Deeper
[TN: Okay, so the title of this chapter literally means "To The Depths". But I already used that for the title of Chapter 602. Dammit, Oda.]

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[Insert text: The ship sinks deeper...]
Luffy: How far down d'you think we've come?
Usopp: The light from the surface is barely even reaching us any more...
Franky: We're way past the "sunlit stratum"... and coming to the end of the "twilight stratum", I'd say. / We must be over a thousand metres down......
Robin: It's so quiet... This feels completely different from being in a submarine. It's almost like flying...
Chopper: A whale! It's a whale!!
Brook: Laboo~~~~~~~~~n!!!
Luffy: No... it's old man Whitebeard!!
Caribou: You ready for this, men~~~~~~~~?!
Coribou&Crew: Uh-huh, Big Bro Dude!! // Uh-huh! // Uh-huh! // Uh-huh! // Uh-huh!
Caribou: The target is dead ahead!!!

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Caribou: It'd be so easy to smash their ship to pieces an' turn the lot of 'em into sea junk... / But that ain't good enough... Nobody'd be able to tell it was us that did it! / No, we're gonna slit their throats an' take the bodies back with us!! / The world is gonna hear the name of Caribou!!! / They're not prepared for battle in the slightest... this is a perfect ambush!! Don't you let me down, men~~~~~~!!!
Coribou: Uh-huh!!
Usopp: There's something approaching from six-o'clock!!! A sea monster...?! // No... // Hey, guys!!! There's something coming from behind - looks like a ship!!!
StrawHats: A ship?!!
Usopp: It's heading straight for us!!!
Caribou: CHA~~~~RGE!!!
StrawHats: ?!! // Ahhh!!!

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StrawHats: It's a pirate ship!! // Get away from them~!!! The bubble's gonna break~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!! // They're ramming up alongside our ship!!! // ...Don't tell me they're coming up bubble-to-bubble to board our ship.........?!!! // Who are these guys?!!!
Caribou: We're going in, men!!!
Coribou&Crew: Uh-huh! // Uh-huh~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!
Nami: ......?!! Hang on a minute... Is that......?!!! // Mohmoo?!

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Mohmoo: !
Nami: You're Mohmoo, from the Arlong Pirates, aren't you?! // Do you recognise me?!
Mohmoo: !!!
Sanji: Hm? We've seen this guy before, right, Luffy?
Luffy: .........Have we?
Flashback!Luffy: Oh, it's this guy.
Flashback!Sanji: He was with the fishmen, huh?
Mohmoo: ...............!!!
Flashback!Sanji: Die already!!!
Flashback!Luffy: PINWHEEL!!!
Flashback!Someone: Aaaaaghhhhhhh!!!

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Mohmoo: M... M...!!
Caribou: Follow after me, men~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!
Coribou&Crew: Uh-huh~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!
Chopper: Aaahhhhh~~!!! Someone's come on board our ship~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!
Caribou: Kehihihi!!! While these guys are busy staring dumbfounded... // ...we'll slaughter every last man on the ship~~~~~~~~~~~!!!
Chopper: !!
Caribou: Keheheheh!!
Mohmoo: MOOOOOOOOOOO~~~~~~~~!!!!
Coribou&Crew: ?!! // Whaaaaaa~~~~?!!

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Coribou&Crew: !! // Oh, no!! // Cap'n Caribou's been stranded on the other ship!! // Big Bro Dude~~~~~!! // What's wrong, Sea Cow?!! // Why are you doing this?!!
StrawHats: .........
Caribou: Now, men!!! Don't stand around saying hello~~~!!! Just let those gatling guns rip~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!! // Kill that whole damn Straw Hat crew stone dea... // .................. // ?

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Caribou: Forgive me~~~~~~~!!! Don't throw me out into the ocean~~~~~~!!! Anything but that~~~~~~!!!
Franky: ..................
Caribou: You can't do that to me~~~~~~!!! Don't throw away a guy's life so easily~~~~!!! // God is... God is looking down on you all!!! You know that, right?!!
Franky: Oh, quit acting like you're all righteous!! You're the one who was screaming about gatling guns and killing us all!!!
Caribou: Urnghhh!!
Zoro: Who the are you, anyway?! You're the Captain of that ship, right?
Caribou: No, no, no, no!! Don't be ridiculous - of course I'm not the Captain!!! // (Guehhhh!! It's Roronoa Zoro!!) // I'm just, uh... a guy who was being used by them for menial work!! // Man, I'm sick to death of being on that ship...!! Yeah... this is perfect!! / Would you let me stick around on your ship for a while?! Please - I'm begging you!!
Chopper: Eh.........? I - I'm actually starting to feel kind of sorry for this guy...
Usopp: Oh, don't be an idiot!! He's obviously lying!!
Chopper: Whaaaa?! He is~~~?!
Nami: Hey, can I ask something? // Where did you find that Sea Cow that was pulling your ship?

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Caribou: Ahhhhh......... // My, my... now ain't you a cutie... / You must be... the "Cat Burglar", yeah~?
Sanji: Don't you dare stare lewdly at our beautiful navigator like that!!!
Caribou: Blueghh!!! // .........Aaghh...!!!
Sanji: Nami-san! You're all right... / ...noouuuwwghhhhhh~!!!
Usopp: Oh, would you quit doing that already?!!!
Chopper: We'll have to rehabilitate him slowly... start him off with some tame photographs...
Caribou: ...Anyway, we just found that thing swimming around in the area...!!
Nami: !
Caribou: It's the mark of a pro undersea traveller...... // ...to have your ship pulled by a beast like that!!
Luffy: .........! Ehhh~~~?! Is it really?!
Crew: Stop~~~~~~~~~~~~!! Stop, Sea Cow~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!! // What's wrong?! Sea Cow!!!
Coribou: Big Bro Dude~~~!! I'll save you~~~~~!!!

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Luffy: D'you think there are any sea monsters around~~~?
Nami: ......Luffy... What exactly are you planning now...?!
Usopp: Hey, Nami! Aren't we going in a slightly different direction to where the Log Pose is pointing?
Caribou: (...Dammitall... How could things turn out so wrong...? What am I gonna do now?! I can hardly hope to fight them one-on-nine.........!!! // It'll be simple enough to break out of these ropes, but... I guess I could wait for my chance, and take 'em out one by one... Or else...)
Nami: ...No, it's fine. Travelling slightly to the southwest of where the Log Pose points is the best route.
Luffy: Why?! It'll be quicker if we just go straight where it's pointing, won't it?!
Brook: Ahhh, I'm sprouting goosebumps all over my skin...! / Oh, but I...
Chopper: You don't have any skin since you're just bones!
Brook: !!!
Nami: If we head straight for the island, we'll get caught in the currents... / ...and be smashed against the mountains and volcanoes on the sea bed before we manage to reach the bottom.
Chopper: Ehhhh~?! Volcanoes?! The sea bed is scary~~~~!!!
Usopp: But I thought the currents in the Grand Line were totally unpredictable in the first place? / Is there really a route that'll guarantee we're safe?

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Nami: There is - just one...!! / You should all put on coats like this, by the way. It's going to get cold from here on out.
Zoro: We're going somewhere cold? I thought we were going to the sea bottom.
Franky: Idiot... of course it's gonna be cold at the bottom of the ocean! It's like a bath - the water at the bottom's always cooler than the water at the top!
Usopp: Oh, right! So the bottom of the ocean would be colder than it is at the surface!!
Brook: It is not only the temperature that is different! In the depths of the ocean... / ...there are also what is called "deepwater currents"; entire currents of water that one would never be aware of from the surface! / These currents move in completely different directions to the "surface currents" that we are currently experiencing.
[Labels: Surface Currents / You Are Here // Deepwater Currents]
Usopp: Huh?! There are currents underneath currents?? You sure know an awful lot~~!
Brook: Yohoho! I am your elder, after all!
Franky: What's more, these currents are always interconnected somehow! And I don't just mean splitting off to the east and west or coming back together again... / There are currents rising up to higher levels, or drilling deeper down... all connected together like some kind of giant dragon!
[Labels: Surface Currents // Deepwater Currents]
Franky: These interconnected currents flow unbroken through the seas of the entire world!

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Brook: From what I have heard, the deepwater currents flow along the sea bed at a rather leisurely pace... so slowly, in fact... / ...that once a ship has travelled down to the deepest depths, it can take as much as two thousand years before they ever reach the surface again!
People: Two thousand years?!
Brook: Indeed... For this reason, many legends surround the dark, unexplored regions travelled by these deepwater currents... / Mighty beasts...!! Curses...!! The souls of the dead...!!!
Chopper: Whaaaaa?!! There are ghosts at the bottom of the sea?!!
Brook: Th - There are?! That's so scary!!!
Luffy: Now I'm getting excited!!
Nami: Well, who knows? The important thing is, we're getting on one of those currents that runs from the surface currents to the deepwater levels! / That way, we'll be taken straight down to the deepwater currents and we can reach the sea bed!!
Luffy: Oh! You're right!! Man, you're smart...
Chopper: But wait... How do we even find these... places where the water flows down??
Robin: It's just like what we were saying about the bathwater... Where the water gets colder, the currents start to flow downward.
Usopp: I get it!! So that's why we're heading into colder waters!!!

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Nami: The Red Line is essentially a huge collection of islands all joined together... / There are "Summer Island" areas and "Winter Island" areas, just like anywhere else.
[Labels (right to left): Autumn // Summer // Winter // Spring]
Nami: So of course the area we're heading towards right now... / ...is an ice-cold "Winter Island" region. // It's an area that fulfils the one other important condition for the currents to turn sharply downwards, as well.
Luffy: Hm? And what on Earth is this other condition, I wonder??
Nami: ......You always ask about these things without thinking, don't you...? / Are you sure you want to hear about saline density levels?
Luffy: ! // Salineden City? I think I might have been there as a kid...
Zoro: A slaying dynasty? Now that's something I'd like to see...
Nami: Oh, forget it!!
Luffy: So Zoro, where did the bear guy send you?
Zoro: Oh, you're not gonna believe this...
Usopp: What's all this about saline density?! Let us in on the secrets of the ocean!!
Nami: Oh? You two are very enthusiastic! Well, basically, the conditions for water to flow downwards are that it has to be "cold" and "heavy"! / In freezing-cold regions, you find ice forming in the ocean water, and when it does, the salt content...

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Luffy/Zoro/Usopp/Chopper: I see... so they're Mystery Currents!!
Nami: That's why you should just shut up and let me handle these things in the first place!!!
Brook: Care for a song, Nami-san?!
Robin: Nami! While you've been explaining the theory, it looks as though we've almost reached the current!
Nami: Really?!
Luffy: Oh?!! Let's see the Mystery Current, then!! // What's it look like?! A current flowing down to the ocean depths...! // Whoa!! Is that it?! That's amazing~~~~~~~~~!!!
Franky: Not half bad work, Nature!!
Sanji: What... is that...?
Nami: ......That's the Downward Current Plume...! // It's almost like a gigantic...

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Nami: ...undersea waterfall!!!!
StrawHats: The water's falling all the way down to the sea bottom!!! // Look how fast it's going...!!
Robin: Incredible...!! The sheer magnitude of the flow is breathtaking...!!! / How many hundreds of metres across must it be.........?!!
Luffy: Awesome~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!
Brook: It's one thing to hear about it... / ...but seeing it first-hand is another matter entirely!! Yohoho~~!
Usopp: I can't see the bottom!! It's just pitch blackness down there~~~~~~~~!!! // We're doomed~~~~~!!! At that speed, we'll be smashed against the seabed for sure~~~~~~~~~~~!!!
Nami: Is this really going to be all right?! Following this current...!!
Franky: Don't you worry about the ship!! The Sunny is the ultimate craft, hewn from the legendary Adam Tree!!
Caribou: Hey!! Straw Hats!! / Turn back, right now!!! We're all in mortal danger!!!
Zoro: ......Oh, yeah... / I forgot you were still here...
Caribou: Take a proper look down there!! There's a monster below!!!
Luffy: ?!!
Caribou: I've never heard that that thing was living in these waters!!! ......!!! / That legendary demon that roams the vast ocean, never tiring of the slaughter it leaves in its wake...!! The enemy of all humanity!!! // That beast is......

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StrawHats: ?!!! // Aaaaaahhhhhh~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!! // It's the Kraken~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!
Franky: It's crushing all those ships in its tentacles!!! / It must have taken all the ships that set out in the past few days!!!
Usopp: Look how huge it is!!! It's a real monster squid!!!
Caribou: I don't know where it came from... but it must be feeding on all the ships that try to take this current down to the sea depths!!! / I've never heard about this!! // Please!! I don't want to die any more than you do!! Just turn back!! If we wait it out for a few days, I'm sure that thing will...
Luffy: Oh, shut up already!!!
Caribou: ?!
Luffy: I've just had a great idea! / Let's make that thing our pet!!!
StrawHats: Huh?!!
[Insert text: Seriously?!]
[Bottom text: Next issue, One Piece will be taking a break. It will be back in Weekly Shonen Jump Issue 52.]