## One Piece Chapter 551: Whitebeard of the Four Emperors - Chapter: 551 - Pages: 0-15 - Characters: Usopp, Masked Boin Archipelago inhabitant, Portgas D. Ace, Gol D. Roger, Sengoku, Reporters, Shabondy Archipelago crowd, Boa Hancock, Dracule Mihawk, Donquixote Doflamingo, Marines, Luffy, Aokiji, Coby, Helmeppo, Monkey D. Garp, Monkey D. Dragon, Portgas D. Rouge, World Government, World Government agents, Cipher Pol, Curly Dadan, Young Luffy, Whitebeard, Spade Pirates, Whitebeard Pirates, Gates of Justice, Jimbei, Buggy, Crocodile, Emporio Ivankov, Impel Down prisoners, Doma, Makugai, Decalvan Brothers, Squardo, Whitebeard allied captains, Doflamingo, Gecko Moria, Bartholomew Kuma, Kizaru, Akainu, Marco, Moby Dick, Whitebeard squad leaders ### Summary Page 0: Chapter title page: Chapter 551, "Whitebeard of the Four Emperors." The cover concludes Usopp's short focused serial, "Usopp's 'I'll Die If I'm On My Own' Disease," with the subtitle "Conclusion: 'Usopp Got Fat.'" Usopp stands in the Forest of Gluttony on the Boin Archipelago, now hugely swollen from eating the island's strange food, while the masked local watches him among giant fruit, flowers and syrupy-looking plants. This cover-story image is not part of the Marineford battlefield, but it shows Usopp's separated journey taking a comic and dangerous turn. Page 1: The world reels from Sengoku's announcement. At Shabondy, people cry, "Fire Fist Ace...!!" and ask, "Is Gol D. Roger's son!?" Reporters scramble, shouting that this is huge news, that it must be sent to the main office right away, and that they need an extra edition. A trembling onlooker realizes, "It still lives... the Pirate King's bloodline...!!!" The broadcast turns Ace's execution into more than a public punishment: the watching world understands that Roger's blood survived in the condemned man. Page 2: At Marineford, the sea, the fortress, and the gathered troops fall into stunned silence under the force of the revelation. Ace kneels on the execution platform while the Marines and commanders stare up at him. Boa Hancock looks toward the scaffold and realizes, "So he's not... Luffy's real brother?" Mihawk, Doflamingo and others remain watchful as the truth settles over the plaza. The information changes how everyone understands Ace's rescue: he is not only Whitebeard's commander, but Roger's surviving son. Page 3: The Marines repeat the news in disbelief: "Roger's... son...!!" Doflamingo laughs that the real son survived and calls it a miracle, adding that everybody even slightly associated with Roger was executed at that time. Sengoku, Aokiji and the other high officers sit grimly. Coby and Helmeppo realize Ace once said he was Luffy's brother, so they assumed his father was Dragon, but now understand Luffy and Ace are not related by blood. Garp remains silent, bearing the weight of both Roger's secret and Ace's fate. Page 4: A flashback shows Roger entrusting his unborn child to Garp. Roger tells him, "Garp!! I'm gonna have a kid," but Garp says it will be too bad because Roger will be gone by then. Garp protests that he is a Marine and asks why Roger is telling him, since every woman connected to Roger will be executed. Roger answers that the Government will be all over his footsteps for the next year, and that is exactly why he is telling Garp. When Garp says the woman will be killed if found, Roger insists that his unborn child bears no sin and asks Garp to protect him as a comrade from countless battles. Page 5: The Government's hunt reaches Baterila. Agents ask if this is the island and say Roger was seen there acting more like a father than a pirate. Orders go out to check all children born within ten months of Roger's arrest and to kill any mother who seems suspicious, because Roger's time is over and his bloodline must be exterminated. Pregnant women are inspected, children counted, and due dates watched. Rouge endures beyond all expectation, clinging to life as Garp shouts for her to hang on. As she gives birth, she names the child Ace and says that Gol D. Ace is the son she had with Roger. Page 6: Garp brings baby Ace to Dadan and orders, "You raise him, Dadan." Dadan is shocked and asks whose kid this is, while a young Luffy watches as Garp says Ace will live there from now on and tells him to be friendly with these people. Back in the present, Ace says he took his mother's name because he owes her a great debt and does not care about the blood he got from that worthless man. He repeats that the only father he has is Whitebeard. Sengoku notes that two years earlier, as captain of the Spade Pirates, Ace rose through the pirate world with great strength, and the Government finally noticed Roger's blood had survived. Page 7: Sengoku says Whitebeard realized the truth at the same time the Government did. To raise Ace into the next Pirate King, Whitebeard took his former rival's son onto his own ship. Ace rejects that, shouting, "No!!! I joined his crew to make Whitebeard th...