One Piece 506

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One Piece
Chapter 506: Roger and Rayleigh
CP9's Independent Report Vol. 15: Released From Hospital

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Bepo: AYAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! // AYE!!! AYE!!!
Marines: This bear thing's stupidly fast!!! We just can't keep up...!!!
Bepo: AYE AYE~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!
Marines: And why the heck is there a talking bear anyway?!!!
Bepo: My apologies...
Marines: Just saying that depressed him?!!!
Law: Hurry up, Bepo!!

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Marines: Aaaghhh!!
Bepo: AYE AYE~~~~~!!
Marines: Shit... they took out the bridge!!!
Bepo: You're the new guy, so I guess that means I outrank you!!
JeanBart: Just as long as I'm not a slave, I don't care...
Pirate: Captain!! Over there...!
Law: ...............?! // .........Mister Eustass and... // That's......!!!

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Law: What is one of the Shichibukai doing in a place like this......?!!!
Kuma: ! // Trafalgar Law......!!
Law: So you know my name, do you...............?!! // !!!

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Bepo: CAPTAIN!!
JeanBart: We're right beside the Marine Headquarters and Mariejoa... / ...Anyone and everyone could show up in a place like this...!!
Pirate: The Marines are attacking from behind!!
Kidd: Does this guy not care what he hits...?!! // Trafalgar, you're in my way!
Law: Do you want to be destroyed? I'm sure I told you not to order me about. // Truly, I have found a fearsome opponent this day. / And since I'd rather not deal with an Admiral on top of all this... // You're going to let me pass. / Bartholemew Kuma...!!

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[box: Grove 8, Hound Pets' base]
Ruffians: Peterman-san!! Hang in there!! // Are you alive?! Peterman-sa~~~~~n!! // Dammita~~~~ll!! Those assholes~~~~~~~!! // And to think that Duval was so handsome under that mask of his...!!!
Duval: Well, see ya!! Feel free to call me again whenever you feel like it!!! // Until the day you all make it safely down to Fishman island... / ...we'll do anything we can to help you out!!!
Luffy: Yeah!! Thanks, you guys!!
Sanji: ...Just stop the winking already...
Duval: Oh, and Miss Mermaid, this is for you! / That dumbass Peterman went and ran off with it!!
Caimie: Ah! My rucksack! / Th - thank you!!

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Duval: Now, we move on out, Rosy-Life Riders!!!
Riders: Yes, Hanbara!!
[TN: I can only presume that's an amalgamation of "handsome" and "bara" ("rose") ~_~]
Strawhats: ...They're shouting different things every time... // They're probably just trying to find something that works...
Rayleigh: Now, let's get inside, quickly.
Chopper: Yeah, Hachi needs some proper rest!!
Rayleigh: Hey, Shakkie. I'm back.
Shakkie: My, my - Ray-san, this certainly is a surprise!! / Good job finding him, Monkey-chan and friends.
Rayleigh: Hachi's got himself wounded pretty bad. / Could we borrow a bed?
Shakkie: Oh, my!! What happened to you, Hacchan?!

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Luffy: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!! // ON THE PIRATE KING'S SHIP~~~~~~~~~~~~~?!!
Rayleigh: Yeah. / I was the First Mate... My name's Silvers Rayleigh. Pleased to meet ya.
Shakkie: Did you not tell them, Hacchan?
Hacchan: Nyu~~~ Well, all they wanted was the Coating...
Strawhats: FIRST MATE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~?!!

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Robin: Oh... did you all not realise?
Usopp: That name's the stuff of legend~~~~~!!! // He's in all sorts of books~~~~~~~~~!!!
Sanji: ...Yeah, I doubt there's anyone who hasn't heard that name at least once...
Franky: .........
Brooke: "Gold Roger"... Yes, I think I might remember hearing about a rookie by that name a long time ago... // mmm, beans...
Zoro: And how the hell is Octo-boy friends with a legend like that...?
Rayleigh: Oh, well... Hachi helped me out once, over twenty years ago, when I had a little accident out at sea.
Shakkie: Yes, Hacchan saved his life... though he was only a child at the time.
Rayleigh: After that, we ended up good friends, right up until he joined up with the Taiyou Pirates.
Someone: Don't you mean Arlong?
Sanji: But, man... Gold Roger was executed twenty-two years ago now... / Why didn't you, his First Mate, end up beheaded along with him...? // I mean, the whole crew was captured by the Marines, right?

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Rayleigh: Nah, the crew was never captured............ // Roger gave himself up...
Strawhats: ?!!
Rayleigh: Well, I'm sure the government wanted to look good... / ...so they probably made up some kind of story about how they captured him themselves...
Nami: .........The Pirate King gave himself up?! / But why??!
Rayleigh: .........Because he could see that our journey... was coming to an end. // ...It must've been about...... four years before that famous public execution... // Roger... contracted an incurable disease...
Strawhats: !!!

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Rayleigh: Impossible to cure, impossible to treat... this disease was enough to bring even Roger great suffering. / The most famous doctor on all the seas, who was also working as a lighthouse-keeper... // Crocus of the Twin Capes was the only man who could do anything to ease the pain.
[TN: Frankly, I think more surprising than the revelations about Crocus is the fact that Kureha couldn't do anything about this disease. I mean, he must have consulted her.]
Rayleigh: We got him to come along with us as our ship's doctor on our final voyage... // And three years after that... / ...with Roger's life ever hanging tenuously in the balance... // ...we finally accomplished the impossible. // We managed to conquer the Grand Line.
Brooke: C - C......... Crocus-san?!! // From Twin Capes.........!! That truly takes me back...
Usopp: Whaaa~~~~~~~~~~t?!! I thought that old guy never left those capes for fifty years!! / But he was actually on the Pirate King's crew?!!!
Nami: Come to think of it... he did mention that he served as a ship's doctor for a few years... // So he was a pirate for those three years...!!

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Rayleigh: If you guys have met him... then I guess that means he's still alive and doing good! With that whale he always loved so much... / Actually, when Crocus agreed to come with us... he said something about some pirate crew he wanted to find...
Usopp: Brooke...!! He must've set out to sea to look for you and your crew!!
Brooke: C... Crocus-san... you did all that for us...?!!
Rayleigh: He may only have been a member of our crew for a brief three years... but I have no hesitation in saying... / ...he is a true nakama of ours......!!! // Ah, I sure would like to see him again after all these years...
Sanji: ...So what happened after you conquered the Grand Line......?
Rayleigh: It was only after that, that the people of the world... // ...began to refer to Roger as the "Pirate King"... // It's certainly not like he was the Pirate King for his whole life or anything...

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Rayleigh: It's not like a title is any consolation for a man on the verge of death... // ...but it still made Roger happy... // He was always the kind of man who liked to make a big, flashy deal of anything and everything... / His parties... his battles, too... // And it even looked like he was enjoying himself... / ...planning ahead for a future that he wouldn't live to see. // In the end, under orders from the Captain, the Roger Pirates were disbanded in secret... / ...and each member of the crew hid himself, one by one, from the face of the world. // Even now, I have no idea what all my nakama, the people which whom I put my life on the line so many times, are doing right now, where they might be. / And about a year after the crew was disbanded...

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Rayleigh: Roger gave himself up... was arrested... and in the town where he was born... / ...Loguetown, in East Blue... the announcement was made that he was to be publicly executed. // There in the Loguetown plaza on that day... I hear you could see amongst the crowd many young faces... / ...that have since grown into pirates who are making a name for themselves to this day. The execution of the Pirate King drew the attention of the whole world. // I wasn't there, myself. / But the last thing he said to me was this...
Flashback!Roger: I'm not gonna die, you know......? // Old pal...
Rayleigh: The World Government, and the Marines......... they must have been shocked. / The very public execution that they had meant as a lesson to the other pirates of the world... // ...thanks to a few simple words Roger said before he died... / ...became the exact opposite - a ceremony that drew the curtain on a Great Age of Pirates!

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Flashback!Roger: My treasure? If you want it, then you can have it... // Go and seek it out! I left all the treasure of the world in that place.
Rayleigh: He used the fire of his life, which had but a few seconds left to burn... // ...to light a hellfire that would blaze across the entire world. // He had never before laughed so hard as he did that night...!! / And nor had he ever wept so fiercely... // ...Nor still had he ever thrown back such volumes of drink......!! // If I may say so myself... my Captain led a splendid life............!!!
Strawhats: ...............!!

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Shakkie: .........
Nami: That certainly was an incredible tale... / ...And it's really something else to hear it from someone who was actually involved...
Usopp: But then... it's like Roger actually brought about this whole Age of Pirates on purpose...!
Rayleigh: ......That's a question... // ...that can't be answered just yet. Roger is dead, after all. // The only ones who can shape this age now... // ...are the people who are living in it............!! // Though I do believe that there are people who received something from Roger himself... / ...in the plaza on that fateful day... // I'd say your good friend Shanks is one of those people.
Luffy: Huh? You're saying you know Shanks?!

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Rayleigh: And if you're from East Blue, I daresay there's a good chance you know a pirate named Buggy?
Zoro/Nami: Buggy...
Rayleigh: Both of those men were apprentices on our ship back in the day.
Luffy: Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?!!! Shanks was on the Pirate King's ship?!!
Rayleigh: What... you didn't know...? // About ten years ago... I happened to bump into that man here on this island. // The straw hat that was always his trademark, along with his left arm, were nowhere to be seen.
Luffy: Mmfh...
Rayleigh: And when I asked him what happened, he told me about you with a smile on his face.........!!
Luffy: ?
Flashback!Shanks: Rayleigh-san, you'll never believe the surprise I've had!!! / Over in East Blue...!! // I met a kid who said the exact same thing as Roger............!! // You know the words I mean...!!!

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[box: Shabondy Archipelago, Grove 27 Harbour]
Pirates: A battleship has been sighted from the harbour! // The Admiral has arrived......!!! // If we don't run now, we're all gonna die!!! // It doesn't matter where we go!! Just set sail!! // They're firing cannons!!! // No way... right off the bat?!! // No, wait... something's strange about one of them... // ...............!! // ?!! // THERE'S A PERSON RIDING ON IT~~~~~!!!

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Pirates: NO WAAAAAAAAAAY!!!
Kizaru: Mm... This is Kizaru!! // Mm... I've arrived just now. Awaiting your response.
[insert text: The Admiral strikes!!]
[TN: Oh, I love this guy already.]