One Piece 489

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One Piece
Chapter 489: "The Eighth Member"

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[insert text: That song filled with memories... and a party!!]
People: O~i, Skeleton~~~~! // Aren't ya gonna sing any more?! / Give us another one!! Just one more!! // Hahahahahaha!
Brooke: Yohohohoho... // The song my nakama and I used to sing together... // Singing as though our lives depended on it... The Rumba Pirates' "Final Grand Chorus". // ...In these fifty long years I have been wandering through this dark, dark mist, all alone... / How many times must I have listened to it............?

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Brooke: On that vast ship, all on my own............... // This song...... it was the only thing...... that made me feel that there was "life" besides my own. // ...However, today, I have finally found new conviction in my heart... / ...And this Tone Dial... // ...I shall seal away. // There we go~~~!!!
Luffy/Sanji/Usopp: Ehhhhh?!! You really can do that?!!

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Brooke: I have finally heard news that Laboon is still healthy and awaiting my return... / I have finally recovered my shadow and can escape from these accursed waters...
Luffy: Hey.
Brooke: This Dial, with everyone's voices recorded upon it... / ...no longer exists for the sake of my own solitary reminiscences of the past!! ......This song... / ...exists so that I can take it to Laboon!!! // Every single day was painful... // To be honest, I could see no sign of any kind of hope... // But you know, Luffy-san... // I am...!! // So glad to be alive!!! // I truly am so glad to be alive!!!
Luffy: 'Course you are!
Brooke: This glorious day...!!! It has finally come!!! // .........!!

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Brooke: Ah... would you mind if I became your nakama?
Luffy: Sounds great!!
Sanji/Usopp/Franky/Chopper/Nami: Just like that!!! // He joined the crew~~~~~~~!!!
Robin: Hehe!!

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Strawhats: But, welcome~~~~!! Our musician!♪ // Banza~~~i! // Our musician~!♪♪ Our Just-Dead-Bones musician~!♪ // The musician we've always wanted~!♪♪
Chopper/Usopp: Ah, it's great how light you are!!
Brooke: Ye~~~s!! I'm just bones~~~~~~~~!!!
Luffy: This is so funny~~~~~!!!
Nami: Okay, okay...
Robin: They certainly are very lively.
Nami: Ahh, why does everyone in our crew have to be... like this...?
Lola: I'm not sure I follow entirely, but everyone certainly seems happy, Namizou!!
RandomPeople: KANPAI TO WHATEVER!!
Nami: Mm, yeah, thanks...

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Brooke: 45 degrees!!!
People: Hahahahahah!!! // What's with that~~~!!
Brooke: (Laboon... // I'm not going to turn back!! That's one thing we never did... we always kept journeying on forward...!! That was our one true path to see you once more!)
Flashback!Laboon: Pouuuu!!
Flashback!Crew: Onward~!!
Brooke: (To circumnavigate the globe, that's our goal... and you're there waiting at the finishing line!! Isn't that right...? That's why...... I will not turn back!!! // I will reach you, for sure. // So please, wait for me.)
Flashback!Laboon: Pouuuuu~~
Brooke: (Just a little longer...)

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Laboon: Pouuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!
Crocus: .................. // What's up, Laboon...............?
Laboon: ..................
Crocus: You certainly do seem to be... / ...in an awfully good mood today...
Laboon: Pouuuu!♪♪

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Brooke: Now, once more!!!
People: !
Sanji: A Wanted poster?! You've got a bounty?!
Brooke: I have still not introduced myself properly......!! Yes!! My name is Brooke, Just-Dead-Bones Brooke!! / And I am a wanted man!! // Also known as "Humming" Brooke!! My bounty is 33,000,000 Beri!! / Once the leader of an escort convoy, / ...and afterwards, musician and swordsman, and eventually acting Captain, of the Rumba Pirates! // Straw Hat Luffy, from this day forth I pledge you my life and offer you my service!! // I hope not to be a burden to you all!! // I shall work myself to the bone however I can be of service!!! / Yohohohohoho~~~!!
People: All right, time for one more "kanpai"!!!

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[box: Two days later...]
Brooke: Ah, how wonderful~~~~~!♪ // My deepest thanks for this incredible work, / Franky-san, Usopp-san!!
Franky: Ah, don't mention it, a little thing like this is nothin', really! Ahahahahah!
Usopp: My design was a magnificent success!
Brooke: Such a glorious grave...!!!
Chopper: I picked the flowers!!
Brooke: After all, I couldn't possibly expect you all... / ...to take such a huge quantity of bones with you on Lion-chan.
Franky: Try callin' it the "Thousand Sunny"...
[TN: ...I remember when he was complaining about that name too, mind.]

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Brooke: So strange that this Thriller Bark... / ...should have come from our own homeland, West Blue...... // But here in the earth of our homeland, perhaps... // ...they will all be able to rest in peace.........
Usopp: Well, Brooke, we're gonna go on ahead, okay?
Brooke: Ahh... you surprised me a little, there...... // Are you all right, now?
Zoro: Yeah... I just overslept a little, is all............

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Brooke: And that is......?
Zoro: A dead katana... "Yubashiri". I'd like to take the opportunity to give it a proper sending-off.
Brooke: .........
Flashback!Zoro: Luffy is the man who will be the Pirate King!!!
Brooke: .................. // ......Ahh...
Zoro: Hm?
Brooke: .........Ahh... No... // .................. / Oh, that's right... I will be sailing with your crew from now on.
Zoro: Huh, is that right... well, bad luck to you, I guess.
Brooke: Eh?
Zoro: Being in this crew... it can be a bit of a handful, you know?
Brooke: Yohoho!! Absolutely!! I will do my best, until my dying day!! / Ah!! I've already died, though...!! Yohohoho!

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Luffy: All right!! Now that Zoro's up too!! Time to set sail!! / Off to the next adventure~~~!!
People: Yeah~~~~~~~~!!!
Lola: My, you are restless souls... leaving already?
Chopper: Huh?! Zoro, you took your bandages off already?!
Zoro: Yeah, they make it hard to move about.
Chopper: That's what I put them there for!
Franky: You guys can take Brooke's ship. I've fixed up the rudder and the sail.
Lola: Thank you very much! You really have been such a great help!! / We are in such debt to you, we could not possibly thank you enough if we tried!! / Why, I would like to marry you!
Franky: You're a fine woman and all, but I'm afraid I'm just too super for you.
Dude: It's a real shame to see you guys go! // Couldn't you stay and party for just a few more days?!!
Luffy: Not a chance!! We're off to Fishman Island!! I'm all hyped up for it!! / I bet we'll meet some funny guys there!!!
Sanji: And some beautiful mermaids!! Ah, what I wouldn't love to do with one of them~!♡
Brooke: I wonder if I would be able to see the mermaids' panties...
Dude: Oi, oi, don't say such stupid things!!

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Dude: Mermaids......... / ...don't WEAR any panties......!♡
Sanji/Brooke: !!!
[TN: Skeleton nosebleed XD]
Dude: While we're talking about how beautiful mermaids are!! I hear even the Pirate Empress Hancock was totally overwhelmed...
ThreePerverts: MER~MAIDS!♪ MER~MAIDS!♪
Robin: Surely they have tails instead of legs anyway...?
Usopp: Why d'you guys know so much about mermaids and stuff, then?
Dude: Oh, well, about three years ago, before we came here, we went to Fishman Island! / That place is the best!!
Nami: Lola... you guys have been to the New World?
Lola: Not just been there... I was born in the New World! // You see, my Mama is a pirate............!! // Ah, yes, of course...!! // Here, have this. / It's my mother's "Vivre Card"... it's special, you know? So take it, Namizou, as proof of our bond!
Nami: Paper...?
Dude: Whooooa!! That's awesome! Cap'n Lola's Mama's a real great pirate, you know?!! // You want to be takin' care of that! It's sure to come in useful!

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Nami: What's that? A "Vivre Card"...?
Lola: Hm? You don't know?
Dude: Cap'n Lola, they only have Vivre Cards in the New World...
Lola: Oh, is that right? // This isn't just a piece of paper! No matter how wet or burnt it gets, it can't be destroyed! / What you do is you take a few of your own fingernails to a shop, and they use them to make you a special sheet of paper. // Also known as "the paper of life"... a "Vivre Card". // What you do, is you tear off pieces and give them to friends or family if they're going away. // Watch! This one here... / ...is a Vivre Card I recieved from my own Mama.
Someone: Ah! It moved!!
Lola: No matter where in the world the Card pieces are, they share a connection. / So I can always tell in what direction my mother is!! // Although you can't tell how far away.
Chopper: Wow... so mysterious! And they have lots of these over there...?! // In the New World!!
Lola: It's quite convenient! Here, I'll just sign this piece of my Mama's Vivre Card for you... / If you ever run into any troubles, you just follow this and ask my Mama to help you out, okay? // And tell her that I'm okay, while you're at it!

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Luffy: You know... // I might have a piece of one of those. / It could be...
Nami: Yes, I just had the same thought... A while back... / That piece of paper that Ace gave you... could it be the same thing?
[TN: Oh, dear Lord... it really is about time that got sorted out! XD]
Flashback!Ace: This piece of paper will bring the two of us together again some day.
Luffy: So that's what it was about... / Here it is.
Dude: Ahh!
Lola: Wait a moment! Let me see that!
Luffy: Huh? It looks kinda burnt, and smaller than before...
Lola: ...This most certainly is a Vivre Card...... However... / There's something I hadn't told you yet about these... / They can reflect the "vitality", the "life-force" of their original owner!! / This... it belongs to someone important to you?
Luffy: Yeah, it's my brother's!
Lola: I hate to have to tell you, but... // This person's life...!!! // It... it is fading away!!!
Luffy: Ehhh?!!
[insert text: What has happened to Ace...?!]
[TN: ...Wait, they're not going to get sidetracked by this, are they? Are they ever going to actually go to Fishman Island? >_< I can see it now... the "Impel Down Arc" XD]