One Piece 498

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One Piece
Chapter 498: The Eleven Supernovae
CP9's Independent Report Vol. 8: "Earning Medical Fees: Jabura and Blueno's Animal Show"

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[insert text: Luffy on the Shabondy Archipelago!!]
Luffy: BAZOOKA!!!
Enemy: Bueeegh!
Caimie: All ri~~~ght!! / Luffy-chin, you're awesome~~~!!
Hacchan: Nyuu~~~~!!
Luffy: All right! // That's enough of that!! The likes of you... / ...aren't gonna beat me!!!

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Brooke: But dear me, why could all these bounty-hunters be appearing all of a sudden?
Hacchan: You guys are incredible!
Luffy: Okay! All finished up!
Chopper: But this is the third surprise attack we've had now!!
Brooke: I don't see any food samplers - I mean, souvenir shops - anywhere around any more...
Chopper: There's barely anybody around, and even where there are shops and stuff they seem kind of dodgy... / Are you sure the Coating mechanic is around here?!!
Hacchan: Nyuu~~~ This is an archipelago, and a big one at that, so it's an easy place to escape from the eyes of the Government. / Even the Marines don't venture into the innermost areas. // We're in Grove 16 right now. All the Groves from 1 to 29... / ...are essentially lawless areas.
Chopper: Whaaa?!

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Hacchan: Look here, this is a map showing the Grove layout divided into tens. // These aren't official divisions or anything... but they show basically what each area's like.
[TitleBox: Shabondy Archipelago]
[TopBox: Amusement Parks / Shabondy Park etc.]
[TopRightBox: Sightseeing / Souvenirs etc.]
[bottomRightBox: Shipyards / Coating Engineers]
[TopLeftBox: Grove 1 - Grove 29 / Human Shops etc. / Lawless Area]
[MiddleLeftBox: Hotel Districts etc.]
[bottomLeftBox: Marine Station / Government Personnel]
Chopper: Couldn't you have told us this stuff earlier?! / Then I could've got Sanji or Zoro to come instead of me~~!! // Nyu~~ Don't worry. We're after Grove 13, which is just up ahead!!
Caimie: Chopper-chin, Skeleton-chin, you were both incredible as well!
Chopper: Th - that doesn't make me happy, dammit~!♡
Brooke: Ah, I'm so embarrassed my ears are going red... though I don't have any!!
BountyHunters: *cough*...!! Dammit......!! / They're just so strong......!! // I guess 300,000,000 really is out of our league... // ......!! Even though there are such incredible catches ripe for the pickings right here on these islands...!!! / If we could just get one.........

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[box: Shabondy Archipelago, Grove 13]
Hacchan: All right, we're here~~~~~!!
Luffy: All right, finally~~~!!
Hacchan: It's that shop up there on top of the root. // I wonder if they're still in business... It's been ten years...
Luffy: Is this Coating engineer a fishman too? Well, I guess we'll know when we meet him!
Caimie: Ah - Pappagg and I have never actually met them face-to-face. But apparently they're really incredible people.
Luffy: Is that right...!
Hacchan: Nyuu~~~~ We were friends back when I was just a kid.
Pappagg: Uh, Hachi... every single thing about this place just screams "we're gonna rip you off"...... // It's just... brutal......
[sign: Shakkie's Rip-Off Bar]
Hacchan: Don't worry, they're good people.
Luffy: Hey, it says "BAR"!! Is that okay?!!
Hacchan: Rayleigh! Shakkie! You here~?!
Guy: I'll pay up......

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Shakkie: Hello there.
[box: Bartender / Former Pirate / Shakuyaku (Shakkie)]
Shakkie: What'll it be? // ...Ohh... // Hacchan~~~~~~~~~~~?!!
Hacchan: Nyuu~~~ We really haven't spoken for a while, huh, Shakkie...
Shakkie: Sure haven't! What's it been, about ten years?! // You guys take a seat and wait, I've just gotta finish extorting exorbitant charges out of these chumps!
Hacchan: Nyu~~~ Take your time.
Chopper: ..................

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Shakkie: So you gave up being a pirate, huh? Good for you! / Honest's the way to go!
Everyone: ............
Shakkie: Caimie-chan, is it? It's not often that one sees a mermaid wandering around above-water. / Are you Hacchan's lover?
Caimie: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?!!! // Oh... I - I - I could never... never claim to be his b - br - his bride or anything...
Pappagg: That was a slight overreaction there.
Hacchan: We're running a takoyaki stand......
Shakkie: Oh, is that right? // Ah...... of course - would you like some drinks......?
Brooke: Ah - Shakkie-san... these beans are very tasty, aren't they!
Pappagg: Rifling through the fridge like this is your own home...?!!!
Shakkie: Hahahahah......... Go ahead, I don't mind.
Chopper: Luffy!! Brooke!! She's gonna rip you off!!
Shakkie: Oh, I won't be taking payment from friends of Hacchan. / Here, you can have this.
Chopper: CANDYFLOSS~~~~~~!!!

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Luffy: Obahan, how d'you know Chopper's favourite food?
Shakkie: Why, you're the Monkey-chan Crew, aren't you?
Luffy: You know about me?!
Shakkie: But of course. You're a hot topic, and I'm a well-informed sort of person.
Caimie: So you're famous, Luffy-chin~!
Shakkie: Although I admit I hadn't heard that you had a skeleton in your crew... or indeed that skeletons could move about... // But I've read the articles about the Enies Lobby incident. How much of it is true? / I suppose the Government did pick a fight with you?
Luffy: Aw, c'mon... it'd be boring to go over it all.
Shakkie: Hahahaha... Not the type to boast? Impressive. / Though you have the same name as Garp of the Marines...?
Luffy: Yeah, he's my grandpa!
Shakkie: I thought as much... / I was chased by Garp myself in the past, you know.
Luffy: Why?
Hacchan: Oh, Shakkie used to be a pirate!
Shakkie: Though I gave all that up about forty years ago now.
Luffy: Obahan, how old are you?
Shakkie: These days, I just find my fun in supporting rookies like yourselves.

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Hacchan: ...By the way, Shakkie...
Shakkie: Oh, don't bother, I already know what you're going to say. / I'm sure the reason you and Caimie-chan went out of your way to go all this way across land... / ...was so you could guide Monkey-chan and his friends here to get their ship Coated, right? // So basically, you're here with a job for Rayleigh, yes?
Hacchan: Nyuu~~~ Yes, that's right...
Shakkie: ...But he's not here, you see.
Luffy: Huh?! The engineer's not here?! But we want to go to Fishman Island!
Shakkie: Well, it isn't as though he's left the archipelago altogether... / Why don't you go search the bars and the gambling houses?
Luffy: We can just wait here for him to come back, right?
Shakkie: True, I'm sure he'll be back one day... though he hasn't returned for half a year now.
Luffy: HALF A YEAR?!
Shakkie: I suppose he just hangs around, finding women, borrowing beds here and there... / It's not that I'm worried about his health... / But, well, when he goes off, he just doesn't come back for a while. I guess that's just how former pirates are.
Luffy: So the engineer-ossan was a pirate too!

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Brooke: Well, this is a bit of a fix... I suppose we'll just have to search. / Do you have any idea where we should start?
Shakkie: Let's see...... he's likely to be within Groves 1 to 29. // After all, he's notorious enough himself; he couldn't let his guard down around Marines. // And if he's not within there... anywhere else... he does like the "Shabondy Park"...
Luffy: THE AMUSEMENT PARK!!! LET'S START THERE~~~~~~~!!!
Caimie: Ya~~y!! An amusement park~~~~~!!!
Pappagg: Oi!! Caimie!!
Shakkie: But wherever you decide to look... I suggest you stay on your guard. // If my information is correct, now that you people have landed here, that makes... / ...a grand total of eleven here on the Shabondy Archipelago!! Eleven bounties exceeding one hundred million.
Chopper: THAT MANY~~~?!
Shakkie: So, that's nine more apart from yourself and Roronoa-chan.

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Shakkie: When you first entered the Grand Line... you chose one of the five paths leading from the entrance, / and you followed that Log all the way here, I suppose?
Luffy: Yeah.
Shakkie: Well, then, naturally, there are people who have travelled the other six... / ...going through all sorts of dangers just the same as you have, and making their way here. // No matter which route you take, in the end, you're going to run into the Red Line...... / ...and so in order to get past that wall, every one of them ends up coming here to this archipelago. / You see? // So all the rookies who've made it this far all end up meeting at this one point... / It's not something to be taken lightly... // "Kidd", "Luffy", "Hawkins", "Drake", "Law"... / These names have been decorating the pages of the newspapers for quite a while.
Luffy: I don't read the newspapers.
Shakkie: Ohohohoho... but knowledge is power, you know. / You should at least make sure you know the names of your rivals, don't you think? // If we're going by bounty value... you're the Number Two right now!
Chopper: THERE'S SOMEONE BETTER THAN LUFFY?! // HERE ON THIS ISLAND...?!

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[box: Grove 24, a restaurant]
People: ......What an eater...! // How does he fit it all in that body of his...?!
Gang: .................. // Substandard women make the food taste lousy. // Go shut them up!!!
[Text: Originally from West Blue / Captain of the Firetank Pirates / Capone "Gang" Bege / Bounty: 138,000,000 Beli]

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People: That wouldn't be good, Father!!
[TN: Apparently, he isn't actually the guy's father, that's just how they refer to their leader.]
People: We're right under the nose of the Marine HQ here!
Bonney: Gyaaaaahhhhh!! // Where're my second, huh?! I'm aboutta run out!!!
People: They say they're cooking as fast as they can, Cap'n...
Bonney: Well, they're not gonna make is, are they?!!! / GIVE - ME - MORE - PIZZA~~!!!
[Text: Originally from South Blue / Captain of the Bonney Pirates / "The Glutton" Jewelry Bonney / Bounty: 140,000,000 Beli]

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People: Why, this little... he got spaghetti on my clothes - !
Hawkins: My apologies for interrupting... / ...the destiny of those clothes. // Today is an unlucky day for killing.
People: I - I'm very sorry!
[Text: Originally from North Blue / Captain of the Hawkins Pirates / "The Magician" Basil Hawkins / Bounty: 249,000,000 Beli]
People: Waaaaghhhhh!!
Apoo: Hup.
People: Aaaaaaaghhhhh!! // What's going on - a fight?!!

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Apoo: If it's a fight you're after, allow me to introduce you to the other side of the wall.
People: It's Apoo!!
Apoo: Hey, you... // Don't you know how strong I am?
People: Boss!! You mustn't!!!
Kidd: Then stop starin' at me like that... // You're a disgustin' sorta guy...... / I think I might get rid of ya.
[Text: Originally from South Blue / Captain of the Kidd Pirates / Eustass "Captain" Kidd / Bounty: 315,000,000 Beli]
[Text: Originally from the Grand Line (Long-Hand Tribe) / Captain of the On-Air Pirates / Scratchmen Apoo / Bounty: 198,000,000 Beli]

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[box: Grove 21]
People: The Demon Monk is going wild!!!
Killer: !
Drake: If you want to go wild, do it in the New World!!!
[Text: Originally from North Blue / Captain of the Drake Pirates / "Red Flag" Diez Drake / Bounty: 222,000,000 Beli]

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Urouge: Fallen Marine officer Drake, eh......?
Killer: ..................
Drake: Hohoh... / So you kept your life for now... masked man.
[Text: Originally from the Sky Islands / Captain of the Heretic Monk Pirates / "Demon Monk" Urouge / Bounty: 108,000,000 Beli]
[Text: Originally from South Blue / Fighter of the Kidd Pirates / "Massacre Warrior" / Killer / Bounty: 162,000,000 Beli]

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Drake: !
Law: And just when things were getting good... / Mr. Drake......! // Exactly... how many have you killed?
[Text: Originally from North Blue / Captain of the Heart Pirates / "Surgeon of Death" Trafalgar Law / Bounty: 200,000,000 Beli]
Shakkie: The innumerable pirate crews who came into the Grand Line at the entrance... / ...have by this point been cut down to a much smaller number...... // The Grand Line is like a kind of giant survival tournament... every pirate who has made it this far... / ...has proven that they are the best of the best; the elite chosen few.

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Shakkie: It's entirely possible that one of these pirates could mature into one who will inspire future generations of pirates... / At any rate, with all these rookies swarming furiously in, they're going to leave some kind of mark on the New World, that's for sure. // As for the reason why Captain Kidd's bounty is higher than your own... that's because his crew... / ...have caused huge numbers of civilian casualties in the course of their activities...... He's not exactly a very nice man. // And that's why I'm going to be cheering you guys on!!
Luffy: Well, I don't mind what happens as long as it's fun! // But I'm kinda worried about him now, out there in such a dangerous place... / The engineer-ossan.
Shakkie: Oh, you don't need to worry about him.
Luffy: ?
Shakkie: After all, he's... // ...a hundred times stronger than you.
Everyone: ?!!
[insert text: Who on Earth is this Rayleigh?!]
[bottom text: One Piece will be taking a break next issue for the author to collect data.]