Chapter 86

Sanji goes underwater to free Luffy from his concrete encasement, noticing that Genzo and Nojiko are trying to resuscitate him by pulling his neck above water. However, Kuroobi chases Sanji underwater and overpowers him with Fish-Man Karate attacks. Before Sanji can be finished off, however, he covers Kuroobi's gills and returns to the shore, where Kuroobi confronts him. On land, Sanji is able to assault Kuroobi with several attacks before ultimately finishing him off with Mouton Shot.

Chivalry vs. Fish-Man Karate

With Zoro having defeated Hatchan and Sanji confronting Kuroobi, Zoro prepares to go underwater and rescue Luffy. Sanji says that Zoro will die from his injuries underwater, but Zoro replies that they have no time left, causing Sanji to jump in instead. Zoro is horrified as Kuroobi gleefully looks forward to fighting in his natural element, jumping into the water to go after Sanji. As Sanji goes down, he sees Genzo pumping Luffy's chest, and Luffy's neck is stretched to the shore, bringing his head above water as Nojiko holds it there. Luffy coughs up some of the water he swallowed, making Nojiko hopeful, and Sanji knows that all he has to do is break the rock Luffy's feet are encased in and free him. However, Kuroobi suddenly catches up to Sanji and strikes the back of his neck, and he then sees Genzo with Luffy, causing him to go after the villager. Sanji grabs Kuroobi's legs and holds him back, and Kuroobi is enthused by Sanji challenging him in an environment where he is not only much stronger, but Sanji is weakened by not being able to breathe.

Kuroobi wraps Sanji in his ponytail, and Sanji tries kicking him, but the power of the kick has been reduced by half and Kuroobi easily dodges it. In contrast, Kuroobi's attacks are unaffected and even sometimes strengthened, and he lands multiple powerful strikes on Sanji. After the assault, Sanji desperately tries to swim up to breathe, but Kuroobi smugly blocks him. Kuroobi mocks Sanji's chivalry, saying that this is how far it got him and that once he died, Kuroobi would kill all of his friends and allies, meaning he could not save a single person. Kuroobi then grabs Sanji by the neck and prepares to drag him to the sea floor very quickly; the sudden change in water pressure will rupture Sanji's organs. Sanji coughs blood when he is brought to the sea floor, and on land, the Cocoyasi villagers wonder in concern about the statuses of Sanji, Genzo, and Nojiko.

Sanji remains alive after the sudden change in pressure, and he points upward. Kuroobi decides to do this again, and swims back up towards the top. Knowing that fish-men breathed through their gills underwater, Sanji bites Kuroobi's gills, blocking them and causing him to suffocate. Sanji is freed from Kuroobi's grasp and comes back up for air, shocking Zoro and Arlong. He tells Zoro that Luffy is sort of fine, and tells Kuroobi to come up so he can kill him. Kuroobi comes up, and thinks nothing of fighting on land, as he is confident that he will still overpower Sanji and kill him with his ultimate attack. However, Sanji quickly barrages Kuroobi with powerful kicks, and a stunned Kuroobi quickly tries to use his ultimate attack, but Sanji finishes him off with Mouton Shot, asking him if he wants any dessert as he flies away.

Part 2

Two incognito SSS officers arrive at the hospital and meet with Gerald to confirm the report. Gerald shows them Loid, the alleged suspect. Gerald lies that he saw Loid rummaging through the records room at night and claims he is selling the hospital's information to the West. Gerald then takes the officers to Loid's desk, where he planted a file filled with fake evidence for them to find. The officers look through the file and see all sorts of classified files inside. The officers decide to arrest Loid, cornering him when he is alone and handcuffing him. Loid is shocked while Gerald gleefully watches from a corner. Loid talks with the officer who cuffed him, revealed to be Franky, asking why he did that. An amused Franky says he wanted to see the look on his face, and now he wants to have some fun after being asked to intercept Gerald's report and play a part in Loid's scheme. Fiona, the other officer, reminds the two that Gerald is watching, so they resume their ruse.

Franky shows Loid the files while Fiona reveals Gerald from his hiding spot and exposes him as Loid's accuser. Gerald frantically reasons that he assumed Loid's rising popularity was because of a spy technique, which Franky confirms in his thoughts. Looking at the files, Loid points out that they were typed on a different typewriter than the one he uses. Franky adds that it has the font of an old typewriter, and everyone pinpoints it back to Gerald, the only person in the hospital with that kind of typewriter. The situation quickly turns on Gerald, who tries to deny that he framed Loid, but Franky forces him to name himself. Fiona says Gerald is on the hospital's surveillance list, and after Franky cites his misdeeds, she declares that they should be arresting Gerald instead.

Before Gerald gets taken away, Loid stops the faux officers, saying that despite his misconduct, Gerald would never sell out his country, is more popular than him, and is a great team leader. With fake tears, Loid proclaims Gerald is "the hospital's greatest treasure" and asks to be arrested in his place. Gerald is touched by this act, while Franky pretends to be moved and lets them go. Gerald is brought to tears and is forever grateful to Loid, who offers to help lighten his load with things such as the VIP exams. Outside, Fiona and Franky decide not to change out of their costumes, Fiona because Loid made her the costume, and Franky because he likes how cool he looks. With Gerald dealt with, Loid returns home and wonders if Plan C can finally get moving. Anya hears his thoughts and fears she will fall behind, then begins to anguish over the meaning of "friendship."

Serqet

It is with fear and trepidation that man walks carefully near the serpent and scorpion. Not that these creatures could overpower him with strength or guile, but the fierce venom they carry is deadlier than any blade or arrow. Yet, for all the dread they induce, they never strike randomly or in anger. Poison of any kind is controlled and administered only to those deserving of such punishment. Serqet, Goddess of Venom sees to this.

Though crushing strangulation and pain await those touched by her sting, Serqet is not a deity of retribution but guardianship. The wakeless dead are embalmed and preserved for all time in fluids taken from Serqet's beasts. Of the four sacred Canopic Jars which hold the internal organs of the mummified, Serqet is the watcher of one. And, though her strikes mean certain death, Serqet can cleanse poison as easily as apply it.

A battlefield is a strange place to find this Goddess. Normally, Serqet is an invisible presence. She watches. She waits. She learns before she strikes and ensures that those she kills deserve such an end. It must be that the vanity of the Gods has pushed Serqet too far. Now all will meet death with venom in their veins.

Veteran Sniper

One of the founding members of Overwatch, Ana uses her skills and expertise to defend her home and the people she cares for.

As the Omnic Crisis inflicted a heavy toll on Egypt, the country's depleted and undermanned security forces relied on elite snipers for support. Among them was Ana Amari, who was widely considered to be the world's best. Her superior marksmanship, decision-making, and instincts made her a natural selection to join the Overwatch strike team that would end the war.

Following the success of Overwatch's original mission, Ana served for many years as Strike Commander Morrison's second-in-command. Despite her responsibilities in leading the organization, Ana refused to step away from combat operations. She remained on active duty well into her fifties, until she was believed to have been killed during a hostage rescue mission by the Talon operative known as Widowmaker.

In truth, Ana survived that encounter, despite being gravely wounded and losing her right eye. During her recovery, she wrestled with the weight of a life spent in combat, and she chose to stay out of the world's growing conflicts. However, as time passed, she realized she could not sit on the sidelines while people threatened her city and the innocents around her.

Now, Ana has rejoined the fight to protect her country from the forces that would destabilize it, and most importantly, to keep her family and her closest allies safe.

Squidville

As the episode opens, SpongeBob and Patrick receive new reef blowers in the mail, and begin blowing and sucking things up with them. Eventually, they suck up Squidward's windows and door, as the remaining gaps are inexplicably nonexistent, trapping him inside. Squidward tunnels his way out and demands they put his door and windows back. In SpongeBob and Patrick's attempt to do so, the reef blowers shoot them out with such force that Squidward's house is completely destroyed. As the debris falls, a furious Squidward tells them that this is the final straw and that he refuses to live next to them anymore. He mentions that he is going to move so far away, that he will be able to brag about it he would rather tear out brain stem, carry it into the middle of the nearest four-way intersection, and skip rope with it than go on living where he was now. Just then, his TV lands amidst the rubble and turns on, playing a commercial for Tentacle Acres, a private community created exclusively for folks as desperate to move as he is. But before he can actually hear the name of the place, Patrick changes the channel and says "I hate this channel." Luckily, Squidward manages to take the remote from Patrick and learn of the name and where it is.

Squidward arrives at the front gate, and after a short interview over the intercom where he confirms that he is neither a sponge nor a starfish, he is allowed to enter. Although he has a run-in and small confrontation with another local resident, to his delight, Squidward finds that the residents all look, sound, and act similar to him, even living in houses identical to his prior home. Before Squidward can go to sleep, eager to start his new life, however, SpongeBob and Patrick call in an attempt to get him to come back, but Squidward refuses, saying that there is no possible way he is passing up the chance of being among his own kind.

Squidward begins his first full day at Tentacle Acres by going biking, and he finds that all the other residents are riding their bikes as well. He then goes grocery shopping, and is impressed by the local food market, which even carries canned bread. He then sees an Interpretive Dance Academy, where he joins the group in synchronized interpretive dance. At the end of the day, he sees a clarinet-playing trio performing in the park, which he makes a quartet by joining. Squidward's second full day at Tentacle Acres is just like the first, a fact he enjoys immensely. However, as more time goes by, each day exactly the same as the last, Squidward slowly loses enthusiasm for the endless routine. Finally, Squidward realizes that nobody in Tentacle Acres stands out and that his dream life is in a complete loop. After some time, he leaves in the middle of another clarinet performance.

While sitting on a park bench, lamenting his attainment of "too much paradise," Squidward hears a reef blower. For a split second he thinks it's SpongeBob, but then sees that it's only a park worker. The worker leaves the reef blower unattended and Squidward is slowly tempted to start playing with it, irritating and scaring his neighbors out of their wits in the process. They eventually become fed up with his behavior and form an angry mob to chase him down.

Meanwhile, SpongeBob and Patrick come to the Tentacle Acres to apologize to Squidward, and try to convince him to return home. The surveillance guards tell them that their kind isn't welcome, and refuses to open the gate for them. However, Patrick's bad breath from some fried oyster skins he had travels through the intercom into the security room, knocking the guards out and causing them to fall over onto the button that opens the gate. They enter the village and come across the angry mob cornering Squidward, but are unable to identify Squidward among the crowd of near-identical residents.

The mob presents to Squidward a "well thought-out and organized list of complaints," then Squidward makes a complaint himself about how everyone acts just like him in a single town. The police officer and the rest of the mob tell him that he doesn't have to live there, and Squidward wholeheartedly agrees. As SpongeBob and Patrick continue their search, Squidward uses the reef blower to launch himself out of the village yelling "Freedom!". SpongeBob then concludes the episode by claiming: "Well, we know one thing: it sure isn't that guy!".

Oda Eiichiro

Former One Piece staff member Kusanagi-san and a figure yet veiled in mystery, KIYU-san, will have their manga in the Akamaru Jump going on sale April 30th. I'm dying to read 'em!!

元ワンピーススタッフの草薙さんと謎のベールにつつまれたキユさんの漫画が4月30日売りの赤マルジャンプに載る。早く読みてーなー!!

Chapter 87