Chapter 30 — GREAT!!!
Original serialization: Weekly Shounen Jump 1998, #14
Kuro decides that his crew needs to be punished (killed) for being late.
Jango hypnotizes his men into being super strong, but Luffy also falls into the hypnosis. He uses his Gum-Gum Gatling and easily defeats the other pirates.
He then pulls the sternpost off the Black Cat’s ship, but before he can use it as a weapon, Jango puts him to sleep with a hypnosis. The sternpost falls down on top of Luffy, but it doesn’t hurt him. Jango then calls to someone called Butchie onboard the ship, and another one of the Black Cats says it’s the Meowban Brothers, the ship guards.
Meanwhile, Onion notices Kuro, who’s heading towards the north beach…
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Oh wow, Luffy pulled off the entire sternpost. That’s pretty intense. He probably would have finished the battle had he been able to use that, haha. But now that Jango has put him to sleep, we’re basically down to only Zoro being able to fight. If these Meowban Brothers can fight, I guess it’ll be them versus Zoro. Or maybe Jango will fight Zoro, if he can…
Hm, but Kuro’s movements are unsettling. He’s going to kill his whole crew for being late? You know, I could imagine him actually doing it once he gets there… and then Luffy’s crew+Usopp might have to fight him, too…
And Onion has noticed him… I wonder if he’ll warn anyone else… or possibly even get himself killed if he confronts Kuro. In any case, I think he’s starting to realize that Usopp’s story wasn’t a lie, after all.
We’ll see in the next chapter (I hope)!