One Piece Chapter 949: Mummy

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In Wano Country, Udon remains in chaos. Babanuki orders his men, "Eliminate those six pests!!" The guards fire the excitement bullets, but Luffy's group keeps moving through the attack. The shots are not hitting Luffy at all, and the guards panic, asking who they are even aiming at. Luffy yells, "Stop it!!" while Babanuki insists, "I told you it doesn't matter who I shoot!!" The prison yard becomes a battlefield of disease bullets, prisoners, and the rebel fighters trying to protect them.

Luffy watches the starving prisoners get targeted by Queen's viruses and loses patience. He says, "I won't forgive you for using viruses as a weapon!!!" and begins "Gomu Gomu no..." The prisoners are already weak from not having enough to eat, but Luffy drives forward anyway and slams into the enemy with "Heavy Stamp!!!" His attack sends guards flying and breaks through the line of plague shooters before more prisoners can be hit.

Kawamatsu and Kiku move through the guards with precision. Someone shouts, "Do not lay a hand on our comrades!!!" while the enemies cry that the fighters are demons. Kawamatsu uses "Kappa Style... Yori-kiri!!" and hurls a guard away with sumo force. The prisoners and jailers watch the old Wano warriors cut through the prison forces, and the balance of the yard begins to shift away from Babanuki's control.

Raizo strikes from above with "Lightning Shuriken!!" and drops blades into the guards. He tells the prisoners, "Use these, friends of Luffy-dono! I am sure that one of them will free you from your cuffs!!" Killer, still laughing helplessly with "Fa fa... Fa fa," lies in the chaos while Kid watches, silent and furious. Babanuki refuses to stop and orders, "Fire the excitement bullets!!!" forcing the plague threat back into the crowd.

The guards deliberately aim at the prisoners. Luffy realizes it and shouts, "Dammit, they're only aiming at the prisoners!!" Infected prisoners burn with fever, crying, "I feel so hot!!!" and "Help me!! It's spreading!!" Babanuki finally names the disease: it causes a high fever that sprouts from the area of infection, and an unbearable pain as if the body is on fire, with blood spurting out. He says he forgot to tell them the name of the infectious disease, while the victims scream that it is too hot.

The disease's effect becomes visible across Udon. Babanuki says that the rest of the prisoners should charge too if they want to be branded as rebels, because the infected are walking human weapons that can defeat enemies with a mere touch. Anyone who touches them is forced to suffer as well, and no matter how much they thrash, they continue suffering until they dry up like withered plants. He names it as one of Master Queen's greatest creations: the mysterious disease, the "Mummy" virus.

The infected prisoners beg the rebels to leave. They say, "Please... leave this place...!!" and "If you guys had not come here... none of this would have happened...!!" Even if Luffy and the others truly are samurai of the Red Scabbards, the prisoners believe they are doomed against Kaido. One says that Kaido, the gigantic flying dragon, cannot be defeated by anyone, and that the devastation around them was created by just one of his subordinates with a single weapon. Their fear is not just of the virus, but of the overwhelming power behind it.

The prisoners say that if outsiders had never come, they would have continued to live their normal daily lives and would never have been subjected to this. Luffy hears them and then grabs infected men directly, even as Kiku screams, "No!! You must not touch them, Luffy-taro...!!" The disease spreads onto him, but he drags the suffering prisoners together and shouts, "Stop right there, all of you!!!" His own body starts to burn, but he refuses to let their fear make the choice for them.

The guards and prisoners are horrified that Luffy touched them all himself. They call him a fool and ask what devastation he thinks he can overcome, but Luffy grits his teeth and says, "Something like this... has no effect at all!!!" Then he turns on the prisoners' definition of normal. They call obedience normal daily life, but Luffy says that doing every little thing the enemy says and receiving dango as a reward is not normal at all. He yells, "You're all just slaves!!! Wake up already!!!"

Luffy's words cut through the prison yard. O-Tama watches from hiding and sees that Big Bro and the others are safe, though Luffy himself looks sick from the plague. The prisoners stare as he stands despite the infection, because the outsider they tried to reject is the one enduring their pain with them. His anger is not only at the guards but at the way Udon has taught the prisoners to accept humiliation as life.

Babanuki asks whether outsiders are not allowed to protect Wano, and Luffy answers that he does not care if he is an outsider. He says, "I made a promise... to my friend, Tama, in Kuri... who gave me food!!" He remembers telling O-Tama that he would make sure nobody would have to worry about food in the country ever again. The promise is simple and concrete: Wano must become a place where Tama and everyone else can eat until they are full every day.

Luffy declares that he has heard all about Oden. People remember that Oden was amazing before he was killed by Kaido twenty years ago, and Luffy says that if he fails now, this place will continue to be a living hell. He does not claim to be there for a small jailbreak; he says, "We're here... to defeat Kaido!!!" The prisoners and retainers hear the scale of his goal at last, and Luffy turns their despair into a direct challenge against the ruler who broke them.

Luffy tells the prisoners to make up their minds: "Will you follow us... or Kaido?!" The infected men and former rebels stare at him, and even the guards realize that he is pulling on their heartstrings. Babanuki sees an opening while Luffy is focused on the crowd. He prepares the excitement shell, a giant round that carries two hundred times the virus within the excitement bullets. If he shoots it into that crowd, it will cause an uproar and the tides will swing back in his favor.

Babanuki raises the elephant-shaped launcher and begins firing the excitement shell, but Luffy has already seen the danger. Someone shouts that Old Maid is planning to shoot something at them, and the prisoners beg him not to. Babanuki laughs, "It's too late!!!" Then, as he fires, Luffy moves. With a twist of power and timing, he bends the elephant trunk back on itself. Babanuki realizes too late that he saw a slightly dangerous future.

The excitement shell explodes back into Babanuki's own face. The blast erupts above the prison yard while Luffy stands in front of the prisoners and tells the others, "I'm leaving the rest to you guys." The prisoners decide to rebel, even knowing what will happen if they go against the warden. Kawamatsu calls Luffy a dependable man, and Chopper's group cheers for him. Eight days before the final battle, without the enemy's knowledge, Udon is conquered.

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