Chapter 137

Sanji and Luffy try to evade the avalanche created by the lapahn. While they attempt to flee to a high point, they continue to be chased by the ferocious animals. In order to save Nami, Sanji sacrifices himself and throws Luffy and Nami to a safe place and is hit by the full front of the avalanche.

The avalanche also heads towards Drum's villages. Wapol quickly escapes with the help of his Devil Fruit powers. Convinced that it was a deliberated plan of the Straw Hats to attack him, he departs for the castle with his two lieutenants.

In the mountain, Luffy is safe and has found Sanji. However the cook is now unconscious.

Avalanche

Usopp and Vivi and the villagers are fleeing from the avalanche.

Elsewhere, Luffy and Sanji try to find higher ground but are unable to escape the avalanche. Luffy grabs a tree and rides it like a sled as he grabs Sanji. They are confronted by more lapahns who throw trees at them, but Sanji kicks Luffy away while he takes the brunt of the attack and saves his friends. Luffy tries to grab Sanji's hand but only grabs his glove.

Meanwhile, the villagers are freaking out about the avalanche, as well as Wapol who flees on his pet.

Luffy dives into the snow to retrieve Sanji. After the avalanche has hit and the village is covered, Wapol eats his way out and blames the avalanche on the Straw Hats as an elaborate plot to attack him.

Luffy finds Sanji and begins to bring him back up the mountain. As he passes by a buried lapahn, he also pulls out the parent lapahn. The baby and adult lapahn are shocked that a human has helped them. Luffy is soon found by Wapol's men.

Wet Painters

SpongeBob and Patrick are tearing the Krusty Krab down and getting themselves hurt because Squidward tricked them into thinking it would attract customers. Mr. Krabs figures this out and sentences the two to do a "super, special, secret assignment" - to paint the inside of his house. But Mr. Krabs tells them that the paint they are using is permanent and if they get even the smallest drop on anything but the wall, he will cut off their rear ends and place them above his fireplace. As they go inside the house, SpongeBob sees that Mr. Krabs has so many possessions, and tells Patrick he decides to move them first. Patrick says that there is no need to move the things because they are not getting paid to move them.

After placing tarps and carefully opening the cans of paint with a screwdriver, SpongeBob takes out a huge brush, but decides to use a tiny brush. SpongeBob takes it out, then six hours later carefully paints a drop onto the wall, which begins dropping. In a panic that it may get onto an item, SpongeBob continuously blows on it to change direction in order to keep it from touching the items it heads for. He eventually blow dries it to make it stop moving, but accidentally blows a giant paint bubble in the process. Patrick blows another giant bubble shortly after, merging the two into an even bigger bubble, then inflates the bubble with a pump, causing it to burst and cover Mr. Krabs' whole house in paint, without getting a drop on anything... except on Mr. Krabs' first dollar.

SpongeBob tries wiping the tiny stain off with his tie, but only ends up spreading the paint over the entire dollar. SpongeBob ends up fearing about what they did to his dollar, meaning that Mr. Krabs will cut their butts off & mount them on the wall just like what he said before they started painting his house. Then they try a couple more things to get it off, including washing it in a washing machine, spraying it, using a saw, beating it up with a club, and smashing it with a computer, but all fail. Then they decide to put another dollar on the wall. Patrick takes out a dollar from his wallet, but uses it to buy a chocolate bar from Mr. Krabs' candy machine instead.

At that moment, Mr. Krabs comes home, to find his house's lights turned off. He turns them on and sees that his house is tidy with no sign of bubbles. SpongeBob and Patrick are about to leave, but Mr. Krabs panics, and they think Mr. Krabs found out about the stained dollar. They apologize, but Mr. Krabs is just surprised that they dusted his knickknacks. He panics again, so SpongeBob and Patrick apologize again, but he is surprised about the painted floor molding. He panics again because he finds out that one of the dolls in his Doll-a-Rama isn't upright. He says that they are free to go now, but then bumps into a pile of paintings jutting from the wall where his dollar usually went and throws away each one to find SpongeBob covering the dollar.

Mr. Krabs takes SpongeBob out of the way to find his first dollar stained by paint and drawn on by crayon (Patrick thinks Mr. Krabs will buy it). It seems that Mr. Krabs is going to follow through with his threat and chop SpongeBob and Patrick's butts off, but Mr. Krabs licks the dollar and the paint (including the crayon marking) comes off. The two are confused, and Mr. Krabs reveals the paint comes off with saliva. SpongeBob concludes that Mr. Krabs lied about the paint being permanent so they would be extra careful, but Mr. Krabs said he tricked them just for fun, and laughs at his jest, causing SpongeBob and Patrick to storm out in disgust. Unfortunately, Mr. Krabs laughs so hard that he accidentally spits all over the place, causing all the paint to melt from the walls. He groans in disappointment as he realizes this, and mutters to himself that he needs to learn how to "say it, not spray it."

Oda Eiichiro

I got hit pretty hard. Here I was thinking I was invincible when I had my first fever in 10 years. Now I know first-hand how bad Nami felt. Luffy! Hurry up and get her to a doctor!!

ヒドイ目にあった。無敵の筈の僕が10年ぶりに発熱。ナミの辛さを知る。ルフィ!!ナミを早く医者に連れてってあげなさい!!

Chapter 138