## One Piece Chapter 523, pages 16-17: Hell - Chapter: 523 - Pages: 16-17 - Characters: Sengoku, Marine officers, Whitebeard, Whitebeard Pirates, Portgas D. Ace, Monkey D. Garp, Impel Down guards ### Summary Page 16: The urgent report says that all the ships monitoring Whitebeard's flagship, the Moby Dick, have gone silent: twenty-three ships in all, and contact with every one of them was suddenly lost. Sengoku reacts in shock as the shadow of Whitebeard and his forces looms over the report. The Marines also say that other pirate crews in the New World have been taking suspicious actions, but the Navy has no idea of the scope of their plans and has lost sight of them completely. New patrol ships are preparing to depart, but Sengoku realizes they were outmaneuvered: Whitebeard has already made his move. Since they do not know where he will attack while Ace is being held, Sengoku orders Impel Down alerted as a possible target. Page 17: The setting moves to the "Great Prison Impel Down." Guards escort Vice Admiral Garp inside and tell him, "This is it, Vice Admiral Garp..." Garp answers, "Be careful," and another voice responds, "Yeah." Deep within the prison, Portgas D. Ace is chained to the wall, beaten and exhausted. His wrists and arms are restrained high, his body slumps, and the darkness around him makes the cell feel like the true hell named by the chapter. Garp looks at him and says, "Man, you look terrible..." then asks with rough affection, "You still breathing?" Ace, barely able to respond, recognizes him and says, "Gramps..." The page brings Garp face-to-face with the grandson the Government intends to execute.