Chapter 65

While Don Krieg brags to Luffy that only the strongest can win and that his armor is indestructible, Luffy believes he is strong enough to win the fight against Krieg. Each time Don Krieg throws a new attack at him, Luffy dodges and punches him. Finally after a Gomu Gomu no Bazooka attack, Don Krieg's armor is shattered into pieces.

Prepared

Luffy is able to balance Don Krieg's power. He destroys the most powerful weapon of Krieg. Everyone is surprised and cannot believe that Luffy is still able to stand on his feet. But Krieg has a lot of self-confidence and plans to defeat Luffy with it. He believes that his weapon is the most powerful weapon in the world. His energy was still powering up, and meanwhile Luffy's energy was not.

Sanji still does not believe that Luffy can beat Krieg due to his weakened condition. But Zeff says Luffy has one weapon that Krieg does not have, no fear of death. He tells Sanji on the battlefield they must have the principle to not be afraid of death. If they are afraid, they will lose in just one second. That principle was in Luffy, Zeff added.

Krieg attacks Luffy again, and wants to execute him because he is brave to challenge "The Most Powerful Captain" in East Blue. But Luffy dodges it and hangs onto a mast. Then Krieg slices the mast. Unfortunately, his attacks do not hurt Luffy. Luffy throws the mast at him. But, Krieg destroys it by shooting fire at it. Luffy replies with "Gomu Gomu No Gatling". But Krieg's armor protects him. Luffy continues using his "Gomu Gomu No Pistol" and sends Krieg flying, but the armor still does not shatter. Kriegs plans to throw bombs from top of the mast. Luffy tries to stop it and run faster. Finally, Luffy destroys the armor by using "Gomu Gomu No Bazooka" and cracks it into pieces.

Mission 50

During an early morning in Berlint, Franky complains about having to pet-sit Bond. However, after encountering a woman with her puppy at the park, Franky proposes that Bond become his dog.

On Princess Lorelei, Twilight is out on the deck and reflects on how he failed to understand Anya's behavior the previous night. Twilight accepts that he is not the perfect spy he thought he was, realizing there are still things unfamiliar to him. Although he is a spy, he fears the unknown but will overcome it. And as the second day of the trip begins, he plans to overcome the challenge of understanding Anya.

Inside, Matthew McMahon informs Heymann and Vides that they will no longer be entertaining the Greys, saying they had a blowup the other night and are not in the mood to do anything. He assures the men that it is not their fault and tells them to take the day off to enjoy themselves.

Loid and Anya walk around the ship together, where Loid tries to observe, analyze, and adapt to Anya's actions. As for Anya, she imagines that Loid will be shocked if he hears about Yor fighting people if she tells him her plan, so she schemes to ditch him to help her mother on her own.

Anya starts with miniature golf, but Loid quickly gets a hole-in-one on every hole. Anya is shocked and tries it for herself, but ends up spending half the day trying to get the ball in. Throughout the rest of the day, Anya tries distracting Loid with more activities but gets herself too absorbed in every one of them. While this happens, Loid continues to observe Anya.

At dinnertime, Anya grimaces as she eats, in disbelief over forgetting Yor and instead enjoying herself. Meanwhile, Loid wonders why Anya looks upset after having fun all day. He worries that Anya hates him and is in a rebellious phase, so he asks if she is okay. Anya realizes she is worrying Loid and says she is enjoying herself but wishes Yor could be with them. Loid agrees and tells Anya that he can ask if Yor has time to meet tomorrow by sending a message through the concierge. He then says there will be fireworks after dinner and asks Anya if she wants to see them, adding that they might find Yor there. Hearing this, an excited Anya agrees to go.

Standing by a radio, Matthew receives a transmission and calls Olka Gretcher's room. Yor answers the phone and informs the others that they got the all-ready signal from the ship at the rendezvous. While it will be in four hours, Yor tells the group to prepare and change into their disguises. Elsewhere, the Assassin Leader contacts the informant, who has intercepted the transmission. He deduces it to be from Olka's allies, so the leader makes an order to get their team into position for an ambush. After seeing that the coast is clear, Yor, Olka, Gram, and Zeb head out.

Camazotz

In darkness he lurks. Patient as the night in all its silence. For beneath his inverted perch scampers prey. Whether beast, mortal, or God matters not, only satisfying the unquenchable thrum in his veins for the boiling blood of another creature. But there is never enough. There will never be enough. So Camazotz, bat-god, whose bestial form matches that of his nocturnal servants, lurks in the darkness, waiting only to feed.

Once before, when the hero twins, Xbalanque and Hunahpu ventured to the Xibalba, stumbling blindly into the blackness of his cave, did Camazotz defeat a God. Finding themselves surrounded by a swarm of leathery bats, screeching and flapping with frenzied glee, the hero twins cowered and hid, hoping for dawn to light their way out. Patient, as always, Camazotz waited. Hunahpu, unable to hold out, lifted his head from concealment to check for light. Camazotz leapt, sliding through the blackness like a dagger through skin, and snatched Hunahpu's head from his neck. Victorious, he presented his prize as a trophy to the other underworld Gods. However, come the morning light, Xbalanque fashioned a new head for his brother from a gourd and the two escaped while Camazotz was away.

Long has Camazotz hung from his perch, watching as Gods clash and spill their sweet blood upon the earth. He's waited, ever watchful, ever patient, for the moment to strike. Now that the moon has risen, and night has come, Camazotz has disappeared into the darkness. When next he's seen, there will be blood on his fangs.

Evolution Master

From their conception, the Zerg have been driven to pursue the perfection of their race through merciless, predatory evolution. If the Overmind has been the force behind this directive, the being known as Abathur was born as the instrument of its will. As much as a hive creature can, Abathur sees itself as personally responsible for the continuation of the Zerg. It undertakes each experiment as though the survival of the species depended on it alone, and tolerates no evolutionary backstep. Abathur will push the Swarm forward... and change it utterly in the attempt.

Abathur is an old organism, long serving as an “evolution master” – a guiding hand spinning the strands of Zerg DNA into mutations of existing Zerg and entirely new strains. Left to its own devices, Abathur’s approach to evolving the Zerg Swarm is unorthodox: consuming living tissue, and dissolving it into genetic components able to be quickly reassembled. It was Abathur who designed the Queen of Blades, Sarah Kerrigan, as a deadly psionic agent of the Swarm.

Abathur’s methods are far from the only means of evolving the Swarm, but the creature has refined them over the years following the death of the original Zerg Overmind. During its time on Char, the detached, meticulous Abathur modified any Zerg it stumbled across, and grew fixated on diversifying the Swarm in the service of the new Queen of the Zerg, Kerrigan.

During the Second Great War, Abathur once again aided Kerrigan after her deinfestation by a Xel'Naga artifact, perfecting her Swarm as she rebuilt it for a final confrontation with her nemesis, the Terran Dominion emperor Arcturus Mengsk, and continuing to serve her for the following years.

After Kerrigan's ascension to Xel'Naga, Broodmother Zagara was given control of the Swarm, and had Abathur use Xel'Naga essence gifted by Kerrigan to help regrow life in the sector as a means to negotiate peace in the war's aftermath. This however enraged Abathur, who saw the creatures they were creating as non-Zerg, and saw peace as contradictory to the Swarm's purpose. Creating his own breed of Zerg imbued with Xel'Naga essence, Abathur staged an silent uprising against Zagara during a peace talk with the Dominion and Daelaam with the hope of igniting hostilities between the three races and destroying the adostra, the Xel'Naga creatures Abathur saw as an abomination. However, a survey team sent to the surface uncovered Abathur's plot and stopped his coup, and Zagara mutilated Abathur, keeping him alive as she still had use for him, but imprisoning him.

The Paper

As the episode begins, Squidward comes outside to start his relaxing day. He begins it by chewing bubble gum while laying in his lawn chair, and tosses the wrapper into SpongeBob's front yard. SpongeBob comes outside of his house as well, only to realize that Squidward has dropped his wrapper on SpongeBob's yard. As Squidward is about to leave at the sight of SpongeBob, the latter catches him on time to ask if he wants it back. Squidward thinks it is only garbage, but SpongeBob states that in the right hands, it can be a goldmine of entertainment. Squidward does not believe SpongeBob and walks inside his house. SpongeBob asks him again if he wants it back, but he still refuses to keep it and tells SpongeBob he can have it.

With a sigh of relief, Squidward answers his ringing phone. When he answers it, it is actually SpongeBob asking if he is sure. Squidward angrily says that he is and that SpongeBob can keep it forever. Squidward hangs up the phone by slamming it, and starts panting from exhaustion. SpongeBob pops up from under the table the phone was on and asks Squidward if he is really sure. Squidward angrily tells him to get out of his house and finally pushes him out. SpongeBob says it is his last time to change his mind, and Squidward tells SpongeBob one last time that he can keep it no matter how much he begs, pleads, or cries to have it back, and slams the door, so SpongeBob decides to keep that promise. After Squidward is out of SpongeBob's sight, SpongeBob says to the paper that he is lucky to have a friend like Squidward.

Squidward is back inside his house to continue his planned, relaxing day. He hears SpongeBob's obnoxious laughter and begins to play his clarinet. He still hears SpongeBob's laughing and opens his window to ask SpongeBob what he is giggling about. SpongeBob apologizes and says that he is thinking about all the fun he is going to have with the paper. Squidward goes back to his clarinet, wondering how anyone can have fun with a piece of paper. He starts to play his clarinet again, but is interrupted by SpongeBob's laughing.

Squidward gets very angry and opens his window again to see SpongeBob frolicking with the paper and showing Gary what fun things he can do with it. He pretends he is SuperSponge and uses the paper as his cape. Then he pretends to be SpongeBob JunglePants and swings on vines while he does a Tarzan yell with the paper covering his crotch area. He lands on his house, starts grunting, and says he will call his animal friends by making different animal noises. Gary meows and SpongeBob says that Gary is right and that he is not a jungle boy. Afterwards, SpongeBob jumps off of the roof of his house, saying that he is a box of army supplies, and uses the paper as a parachute. Next, he pretends to be a bull fighter with the paper being the blanket and having Gary as the bull.

SpongeBob then does impressions. He does a guy with a mustache, a pirate with an eye patch, and a regular guy with an eye patch. He then starts to suck the paper in through his holes and blow it back out repeatedly. Squidward wonders how he does this and SpongeBob is shown making origami by swishing the paper around in his mouth. He makes a bird, a snowflake, and paper dolls. Squidward says that the paper does look like fun, but then covers his mouth, asking himself what he is saying. He storms back inside and says that the paper is not fun, but reading Boring Science digest is, and starts to read it. He is interrupted by SpongeBob laughing again. Squidward, while taking a bath, talking about how it is fun, but the paper then comes around the tub as an airplane with SpongeBob making the engine and gun noises. Then, Squidward is painting fruit and thinks that nothing is more fun than painting fruit. Squidward paints vigorously until he realizes he just painted himself playing with the paper and destroys the painting in rage. Squidward says to himself that he will prove to SpongeBob that the paper is not fun.

Squidward walks fast outside of his house to play with a paddle ball. SpongeBob also uses the paper as a paddle ball, making Squidward feel dumb. He then gets SpongeBob's attention by playing with a Mini Squidward dummy. SpongeBob also does a dummy with the paper and everyone in Bikini Bottom laughs at the joke. Squidward rides in his shell car, saying that it's fun, and asks SpongeBob if the paper can do that. SpongeBob hovers above Squidward with the paper acting as a helicopter, replying "no." Squidward then asks SpongeBob if the paper can play music and starts to play his clarinet. He plays "Mary Had a Little Lamb," but with all of the wrong notes. SpongeBob says that he made it sound original, and corrects Squidward by playing a jazz version of it on the paper.

Finally having enough, Squidward demands SpongeBob to give him back his paper, but SpongeBob reminds Squidward that he told him to never give it back to him, no matter how much he begs, pleads, or cries, and sticks to his word. Squidward suggests that he could trade for something and offers a rubber band. SpongeBob almost trades, but says that Squidward is just testing him and that he will never give the paper to him. He then trades every possession he has, even his house, for the paper. SpongeBob still tries to keep his promise, until Squidward offers his shirt. He accepts the trade and gives Squidward the paper. Squidward is happy at first, but when he starts to try to do the other things that SpongeBob was doing with it, he has no fun whatsoever with it. Squidward realizes that the paper was not fun, SpongeBob just made it look fun because of how creative and optimistic he is. And since Squidward, who only wanted the paper to be better than SpongeBob, is not creative or optimistic, he cannot do all the things with the paper that SpongeBob could.

Now Squidward is lamenting that he gave away all his possessions for a useless piece of paper. Patrick, who is casually walking by, takes the paper from Squidward and uses it as a disposable wrapper for his gum, leaving Squidward with nothing as he asks for sunscreen.

Buggy's Crew Adventure Chronicles

Vol. 20: "I See It!! My Pirate Ship!!!"

バギー一味冒険記vol.20「発見!! 我が海賊船」

Oda Eiichiro

Shinyappo, whose one-shot debuted this week, helps out on One Piece from time to time. His selling point is definitely 'power' manga!!

今週読切で登場した“信也っぽ”には何度かワンピースを手伝って貰ってます。奴の売りはパワー漫画だ!!

Chapter 66