E96 - Erumalu, the City of Green and the Kung Fu Dugongs!

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    Inherited will...
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    The tide of the times...
    People's dreams...
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    These things cannot be stopped.
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    As long as people
    seek the answer of freedom,
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    these things will never cease to be!
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    I only believe in the future --
    I don't care if anyone laughs
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    That racing passion makes you shine
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    It's too bright,
    but I want to gaze at it
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    I sense "aesthetics" somewhere
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    I'm really really stuck on you
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    I follow, follow in the footsteps
    of a dream that resembles no one
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    Until I dramatically get it
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    Believe In Wonderland!
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    I'm going to catch, catch the shape
    of a dream no one can see
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    I'm going to go with you,
    so passionate feelings
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    I don't really
    need everything to add up
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    Rather than run-of-the-mill daily life,
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    run for paradise instead
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    Believe In Wonderland!
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    "Yuba" "Nanohana" "Katorea"
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    Three years have passed since
    a single drop of rain fell
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    in the kingdom of oases.
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    Seeing hope beyond turmoil,
    the people took up weapons.
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    The burning land is now
    enveloped by a sad bellowing
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    and a mighty swell.
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    In the Alabasta port town of Nanohana,
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    Luffy reunited with his
    older brother, Ace.
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    Ace demonstrates the power
    of the Flame-Flame Fruit.
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    With Ace by their side,
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    the party follows the Sandora
    River upstream toward Yuba.
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    "Erumalu, the City of Green,
    and the Kung Fu Dugongs!"
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    --Halt!
    --What business do you have here?!
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    Please! Let us see the king!
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    How long is this civil war
    going to keep up?!
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    With this civil war and drought,
    we have nothing left to eat!
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    Please help my child!
    There's no milk left!
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    Stop! Quit pushing!
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    We can't let you through!
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    --Let us speak with the king!
    --You want us to just die, then?!
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    --Hey! Say somethin', will ya?!
    --Are you just gonna abandon us?!
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    And you call yourself a king?!
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    Why, you! Don't you dare
    insult His Royal Highness!
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    Cease that at once, guards!
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    I'm sorry.
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    My lack of strength has put you
    through such unbearable suffering.
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    Those who wish to speak,
    please come inside
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    and tell me of your qualms.
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    All I can do now is share your
    suffering as if it were my own as well.
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    I ask that you endure a little more.
    I will return calm to this kingdom.
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    Even at the expense of my life!
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    Father! Someone set this up!
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    It's clear that someone is trying
    to throw this kingdom into ruin!
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    I hope you're all right...
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    Where are you now,
    and what are you doing, Vivi?
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    Tea's ready. Come on up to the kitchen.
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    Thank you, Sanji-san!
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    Heya! I'm Captain Rice Ball Usopp!
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    Oh! And who are you?!
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    I'm a riceman!
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    Quit playing with our food!
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    If you got free time,
    go wash dishes or something!
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    Geez! I need to finish our packed
    meals before we cross the river!
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    Need a hand?
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    No, no. You are a guest on board.
    Just sit back and relax.
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    All right.
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    Don't wash the dishes
    in that mop bucket!
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    What a nice breeze!
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    Nami-san. I'd like to land
    the ship here for a moment...
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    Eh? What for?
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    I have an important task for Karoo.
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    Karoo?
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    Karoo. I want you to go to
    Alubarna Palace on your own
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    and deliver this letter to my father.
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    I've written down everything
    Igaram and I learned
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    about Crocodile and
    Baroque Works' schemes.
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    And that I've returned to Alabasta
    alive with supportive friends.
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    Can you do it? You'll have to
    cross the desert on your own.
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    Listen. You have to drink your
    water with care in the desert.
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    Karoo! Good luck!
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    Now let my father know
    this kingdom can be saved!
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    Drink your water with care!
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    Karoo... Thank you...
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    I knew Crocodile, one of the Seven
    Warlords, was in this country...
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    But a pirate trying to steal a kingdom?
    That sounds like a bad joke.
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    A pirate dropping anchor in
    one spot and settling down?
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    Don't tell me he's trying
    to usurp the throne.
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    Alright! Let's set sail!
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    Hold on! I'm not on board yet!
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    There could be another side
    to this takeover thing.
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    Another side?
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    Some sort of deeper goal...
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    Alabasta, the kingdom of sand...
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    Even if you build cities
    atop the sandy earth
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    and exist there for
    thousands of years,
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    the desert will always be
    filled with the stench of death.
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    From its very inception, this land
    has embraced the shadow of death.
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    I've just received word that the
    Billions' ships stationed in Nanohana
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    have all been wiped out by someone...
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    I'm having this verified as we speak.
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    There are more replacements for
    the Billions than we even need.
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    A single drop of water spilled in the
    desert is no obstacle for my plan.
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    But, if anyone who would
    dare defy me has appeared...
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    crush them.
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    Understood.
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    I've already sent the Lizard
    Runners to contact the others.
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    Excellent.
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    We're finally here!
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    We're finally going into the desert!
    I bet it'll be hot...
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    --It gets over 50 C in the daytime!
    --Eh?! It does?!
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    What happened, Nami-san?!
    Where did your dancer outfit go?!
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    Aah! Not you too, Vivi-chan!
    Why are you dressed like that?!
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    In the desert, any exposed skin
    will wind up terribly sunburned!
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    This is terrible... My dancer girls...
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    Put this on, Luffy-san.
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    Okay! Thank you!
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    --Let's get ready to disembark.
    --Yeah.
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    Okay! Let's land!
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    What's that?
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    --Turtles?
    --Aren't those seals?
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    Kung Fu Dugongs!
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    "If you wanna come on shore,
    you'll have to beat me first!"
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    "Or else go back to
    the other shore, cowards!"
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    Is what he says.
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    I can't sit quietly by when
    someone calls me a coward!
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    --Let's do it!
    --Wait! Usopp-san!
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    Kung Fu Dugongs are strong!
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    --One is winning over there!
    --Winning is bad, too!
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    Huh?
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    It's a Kung Fu Dugong rule
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    that if someone loses,
    they become the winner's pupil!
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    That's very martial arts-ish.
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    The number of pupils just went up!
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    Alright, everyone! After me!
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    Stance!
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    No! Like this!
[10:14] ---
    Yeah! Now go like this!
[10:17] ---
    That's it! Like this!
[10:20] ---
    Like this! Like this!
[10:22] ---
    Like this!
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    Alright! Let's set out for Yuba!
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    Hold on, now!
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    Are you bringing them with us?!
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    You can't, Luffy!
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    The Dugongs can't cross the desert...
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    So cute...
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    I don't know why, but I feel like
    we're doing something very sad...
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    Me, too. What should we do?
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    I know!
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    Let's see here...
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    What're you doing?
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    Here!
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    You can have this! So stay here, okay?
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    --Help!
    --Chopper!
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    See ya!
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    Hey now, Luffy! Do you understand
    the current situation?!
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    They said they were coming with me,
    so why couldn't we let them?
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    We couldn't go to any city with
    that big of a group! You're so dumb!
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    Honestly!
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    We would've been in big trouble
    had Chopper not persuaded them!
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    Yeah! They kept saying,
    "We'll accompany you!"
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    They really would've come if
    we hadn't given them food!
[11:47] ---
    Sheesh! Thanks to you, our food
    supply's gotten a lot smaller!
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    --He knows how to cause trouble.
    --That's for sure!
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    --What's this?
    --Is this the town of Yuba?
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    No...
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    This is Erumalu. It used to be
    known as the City of Green...
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    City of Green?
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    The sight of this town
    explains everything.
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    What the Baroque Works organization
    has done to this country...
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    What the people of Alabasta
    are going through...
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    Wow! There's nothing here at all!
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    Yes. It's a ghost town now,
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    but up until just recently, it was
    a thriving city full of greenery!
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    This place was?
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    Rain was always scarce, but even so,
    the city was able to manage
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    by saving every last drop
    of rainwater it could.
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    But, for three years now,
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    not a single drop of rain has
    fallen in any part of this country.
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    --For three years?!
    --That long?!
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    But even without rain, what
    about the river we just crossed?
[13:13] ---
    Yeah! Couldn't they just pipe
    water in from that big river?
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    The answer to that is up ahead.
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    Never in the thousands of
    years of Alabasta's history
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    has the rain stopped completely.
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    But, there was one place where
    the rain fell more than usual...
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    Alubarna, the capital.
    The city with the king's palace...
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    The people called it
    the King's Miracle.
[14:04] ---
    Until what happened
    that day, at least...
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    Lower the cargo!
[14:18] ---
    It's falling over!
[14:19] ---
    Look out!
[14:22] ---
    Hey! Are you alright?!
[14:25] ---
    Oh, no! This is bad!
[14:27] ---
    We were supposed to deliver
    this to King Cobra in Alubarna!
[14:31] ---
    What is this green powder?
[14:34] ---
    What is it?
[14:35] ---
    H-How should we know?!
    We're only following your king's orders!
[14:39] ---
    --Right?
    --We're just couriers!
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    Run!
[14:46] ---
    Wait... Could this be?!
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    Dance Powder?!
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    You've heard of it?
[14:53] ---
    Yes. It's also known as
    "Rain-Summoning Powder."
[14:57] ---
    Rain-summoning?
[14:59] ---
    I'd only heard stories about it,
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    but a researcher in a country
    where it doesn't rain created it.
[15:05] ---
    By creating a misty smoke from it
    and letting it rise into the sky,
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    you can artificially cause it to rain.
[15:13] ---
    That's what Dance Powder is.
[15:16] ---
    Oh! I get it!
[15:18] ---
    You mean that mystery powder!
[15:20] ---
    I ate some a while back!
    It tastes really bad!
[15:24] ---
    It isn't food.
[15:26] ---
    It's for making rain.
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    What?! You think I'm lying,
    don't you?! Hey, you!
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    Hold on! Wouldn't something like
    that be perfect for this country?
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    As the name suggests, the country
    that developed Dance Powder
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    was almost happy enough
    to dance at first.
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    But there was a big catch:
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    the neighboring country had a drought.
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    Understand?
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    Dance Powder quickly and
    artificially matures clouds
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    that would normally grow into
    rain clouds further downwind
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    and causes them to rain.
[16:04] ---
    So...
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    Oh, I get it!
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    It steals rain that would've normally
    gone to a neighboring country!
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    Eventually, war broke out
    between the two countries
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    and many lives were lost as a result.
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    Ever since, the World Government
    has put a worldwide ban
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    on the production and
    possession of Dance Powder.
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    Powder that can bring both
    happiness and dread when used...
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    When all that Dance Powder was
    brought into the port town,
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    Alabasta was in the middle of
    a strange weather phenomenon
[16:33] ---
    where rain fell nowhere but in
    the town where the king lived.
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    We haven't had a single drop of rain
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    because the king's been
    using Dance Powder!
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    Alubarna's rain wasn't a miracle at all!
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    It's all because of the king
    that we're parched and starving!
[16:51] ---
    Hold on, Vivi! That means
    your dad is the bad guy here!
[16:54] ---
    You idiot! He was framed!
[16:56] ---
    Vivi-chan's father would
    never do any such thing!
[16:59] ---
    Never... Never...
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    Of course, my father had
    nothing to do with it,
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    but at around the same time,
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    a massive amount of Dance Powder
    was found inside the palace...
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    They even had people
    working inside the palace?
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    What's this road, Vivi-chan?
[17:23] ---
    This was a canal that used to bring
    water in from the Sandora River.
[17:29] ---
    Someone destroyed this canal, too...
[17:32] ---
    With its canal gone, the City of Green
    could no longer secure water.
[17:38] ---
    As if praying, the people continued
    to wait, but rain never came.
[17:46] ---
    Ever since the Dance Powder incident,
    distrust in the king grows daily.
[17:51] ---
    And it's all how Crocodile planned, huh?
[17:54] ---
    And then the fighting finally began.
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    To escape the fighting, the
    exhausted people abandoned the city
[18:03] ---
    and left for other oases
    in search of water.
[18:09] ---
    And then...
[18:12] ---
    the City of Green withered away.
[18:28] ---
    --Huh? Is that someone's voice?!
    --Is it the rebel army?!
[18:31] ---
    Don't tell me Baroque Works
    has been following us!
[18:42] ---
    --No. It's just wind.
    --It has to be someone's voice!
[18:47] ---
    It's coming from all directions!
    What do we do, Big Brother?!
[18:51] ---
    There's no danger.
[18:53] ---
    It's just wind blowing across the
    town and echoing off old buildings.
[19:01] ---
    It's as if...
[19:03] ---
    It's as if the city of
    Erumalu is crying...
[19:13] ---
    Here it comes!
[19:41] ---
    Whoa, what was with that wind?
[19:48] ---
    Someone's collapsed!
[19:49] ---
    There are still people in this city?!
[20:02] ---
    What did my father...
[20:04] ---
    What did the citizens
    of this country ever do?
[20:08] ---
    These people have worked
    so hard to live,
[20:10] ---
    being natives of a desert land who
    are forced to fight with nature.
[20:14] ---
    Yet he's destroyed their lives!
[20:17] ---
    What gives him the right to do that?!
[20:21] ---
    What?!
[20:23] ---
    All the while,
    as one of the Seven Warlords,
[20:27] ---
    he pretends to be a hero of the people!
[20:29] ---
    No one realizes he's
    deceiving the entire country!
[20:35] ---
    Crocodile! Crocodile! Crocodile!
[20:42] ---
    I...
[20:44] ---
    can't let him get away with this!
[20:55] ---
    Geez, you're all such kids.
[21:10] ---
    Vivi!
[21:11] ---
    Let's get moving!
[21:13] ---
    I'm itching to do this now!
[21:17] ---
    Let's go to Yuba!
[21:20] ---
    That's where the rebel army is, right?
[21:24] ---
    Yes. I'm going to persuade their
    leader to stop the rebellion.
[21:28] ---
    Persuade?
[21:29] ---
    All of Alabasta's calamities
    are Crocodile's doing!
[21:33] ---
    I'm going to tell him the truth
[21:34] ---
    and have him stop the
    pointless shedding of blood!
[21:36] ---
    Got it.
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    Like the adventurers
    I dreamed of when I was a child
[22:06] ---
    I continue on to the ends of emotion
[22:11] ---
    I scoop up my hands,
[22:17] ---
    and the sand and time
    that spills from them
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    show me that this is
    what I was born to do
[22:30] ---
    Let's continue swimming
    at a near-tumbling speed
[22:42] ---
    Until we wash up someday
    on a white sandy beach
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    no one knows about
[23:10] ---
    I can't go on...
    I can't take hot weather...
[23:12] ---
    Then take off that animal suit.
[23:14] ---
    You jerk! Are you making
    fun of reindeer?!
[23:16] ---
    Hey. What in the world is Luffy doing?
[23:18] ---
    --He's riding a camel!
    --Wait! Something's chasing him!
[23:22] ---
    Ugh! How is he able to
    summon trouble like this?!
[23:24] ---
    On the next episode of One Piece!
[23:26] ---
    "Adventure in the Country of Sand! The
    Monsters that Live in the Scorching Land"
[23:30] ---
    I'm gonna be King of the Pirates!!
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Revision #1
Created 2024-03-09 20:03:43 UTC by whimsee
Updated 2024-03-09 20:03:44 UTC by whimsee