## One Piece Chapter 434, pages 9-11: Whitebeard and Red Hair - Chapter: 434 - Pages: 9-11 - Characters: Shanks, Edward Newgate, Monkey D. Luffy, Marshall D. Teach, Dracule Mihawk, Portgas D. Ace ### Summary Page 9: Whitebeard finally asks the question behind all the old memories: "WHAT KIND OF ENEMY DID YOU GIVE IT TO...?" Shanks quietly remembers Luffy as a child shouting, "ONE DAY, I'LL GATHER UP NAKAMA AND FORM A CREW THAT'S BETTER THAN YOURS!!" and "AND I'LL BECOME THE PIRATE KING!!!" Shanks touches the missing sleeve and answers Whitebeard, "... I BET IT ON THE 'NEW AGE'..." Whitebeard says, "AS LONG AS YOU DON'T REGRET IT..." but Shanks' expression changes. The scar over his left eye throbs. He tells Whitebeard, "I'VE... GONE THROUGH MANY BATTLES AND SUFFERED VARIOUS WOUNDS, BUT WHAT ACHES NOW IS THIS ONE...!!" The conversation turns from the arm he lost for Luffy to the scar that warns him about another man. Page 10: Shanks makes the warning plain. "THIS... ISN'T A WOUND FROM AN ADVENTURE... NOR DID I GET IT FROM HAWKEYE..." he says. "YOUR MAN, BLACKBEARD TEACH, WAS THE ONE WHO INFLICTED THIS WOUND...!!" Whitebeard falls silent. Shanks adds that it was not because he was careless: Teach has been hiding in the shadow of the famous Whitebeard, waiting for a chance rather than taking a captain's position or making himself known. Now Teach has gained power and started to act. Shanks believes that in the end, Teach will aim for the top "WITH HIS OWN WILL!!" and warns Whitebeard that Teach may eventually come for his position too. Page 11: Whitebeard asks, "WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO? THAT'S WHAT YOU CAME HERE FOR, RIGHT?" Shanks answers with no decoration: "PLEASE, STOP ACE!!!" Whitebeard reacts with shock. Shanks explains that despite Ace's youth, Whitebeard trusted him to captain the Second Division, and Shanks admits, "ACE IS STRONG...!!! I KNOW THAT VERY WELL." But that fame and trust complicate everything. The danger is timing: "IT'S NOT YET TIME FOR THEM TO FACE EACH OTHER!!!" Shanks is not questioning Ace's strength; he is warning that strength alone will not protect him from Teach.