## One Piece Chapter 578, pages 7-9: The Man Delivered to a New Age - Chapter: 578 - Pages: 7-9 - Characters: Akainu, Jimbei, Monkey D. Luffy, Portgas D. Ace, Marines, Whitebeard Pirates, Crocodile, allied pirates ### Summary Page 7: Akainu's magma fist punches through Jimbei from behind and reaches Luffy, throwing blood across the page. Onlookers scream, "Jimbei!!!" and "Damn!!" as Luffy cries, "Aaaahh!!!" Marines and pirates realize the horror of it: "...!! He pierced Jimbei and hit Ace's brother!!!" Someone asks, "Is he still alive!!?" Akainu demands, "You're still resisting, Jimbei!?" Jimbei, still conscious despite the wound, gasps to Luffy, "Uhh!! Luffy... haa... I'm sorry!!!" The attack leaves both protector and protected badly wounded. Page 8: Crocodile interrupts Akainu's pursuit from the side. He asks, "Are you really in a position to be worrying about others right now?" Akainu says Jimbei was in the way and that if he had pierced Luffy's heart it would have been painless. He adds, "Why do you still protect him with his chest gouged out like that? He'll die soon anyway." Crocodile, refusing to let Akainu have his way, cuts through the fight with sand and prepares to send Jimbei and Luffy toward the escape ships. Page 9: Crocodile unleashes "Sables!!!" and sends Jimbei and Luffy flying out of Akainu's reach. Voices shout, "Nnn!!" "Crocodile!!" and "Ohhh!!!" as the sand current carries them upward. Crocodile orders, "Someone grab them and take them to a ship!!!" Then he scolds the battlefield: "If you want to protect something, do it right!!! Don't let them have their way anymore!!!" The allies answer, "R-right!!!" His intervention turns Luffy's escape from a private rescue into a collective stand against the Marines.