## One Piece Chapter 673: Vergo and Joker - Chapter: 673 - Pages: 0-18 - Characters: Usopp, Brook, G-5 Marines, Tashigi, Yarisugi, Vergo, Smoker, Nami, Sanji, Caesar Clown, Monkey D. Luffy, Roronoa Zoro, Kin'emon, Smiley, Momonosuke, Trafalgar Law, Monet, Nico Robin, Joker, Donquixote Doflamingo ### Summary Page 0: The title page reads "Chapter 673 Vergo and Joker." In the reader-request cover art, Usopp works as a midnight museum guard and discovers Brook dancing among dinosaur fossils. The caption says, "At midnight in a museum, security guard Usopp discovers Brook dancing with the dinosaur fossils" from pen-name "Joan-san," Aomori-ken. This is cover art rather than a Punk Hazard story scene, but it is useful extra material. Page 1: In the New World, on a certain island, desperate adults plead with the Marines for the children who vanished years ago. They beg, "PLEASE, IF YOU COULD JUST TRY ONE MORE TIME...!!" and "YOU HAVE TO SEARCH FOR THE CHILDREN!!" A Marine officer snaps back, "POINTLESS! FAR TOO POINTLESS!!" The citizens ask if G-5 can send out another search party and if they can be put in touch with Captain Tashigi, because they have heard "that she is always willing to lend an ear to citizens in need." The G-5 Marines take the request as an insult. Their commander shouts, "HOW PREPOSTEROUS!! DO YOU MEAN TO INSULT ME!!!" and reminds them, "I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT WE TOO ARE MARINE OFFICERS FROM G-5!!!" Another Marine laughs as the commander keeps going too far. Page 2: The officer is introduced as "G-5 Unit 06 Commodore Yarisugi," with a note that "Yarisugi" means "going too far." He screams, "WHEN WILL YOU PEOPLE LEARN?! THIS HAS GONE TOO FAR!!" and insists, "THOSE CHILDREN DIED IN AN ACCIDENT!!!" The case, he says, has already been confirmed with "VICE-ADMIRAL VERGO, HEAD OF G-5" far too many times. He claims, absurdly, "WE HAVE SENT OUT TEN THOUSAND SEARCH PARTIES!!!" Even his own men admit, "THAT'S WAY TOO MUCH!!" Yarisugi threatens that if the citizens disturb them any further, he will "MURDER YOU ALL FOR THE OBSTRUCTION OF AN OFFICER IN THE ACT OF DUTY, AND SET THE TOWN ALIGHT!!" His subordinates laugh, "GYAHHAH! THAT'S GOING TOO FAR, COMMODORE!" Page 3: Yarisugi mocks the parents for wanting Tashigi. "HMPH... YOU SAY YOU WANT TO SPEAK TO TASHIGI-CHAN?! THAT'S FAR TOO IMPUDENT BY HALF!!!" he shouts, then explains that she serves directly under "VICE-ADMIRAL SMOKER HIMSELF!!" He calls it "FAR TOO WONDERFUL" to imagine having her under his own command, but says she has "FAR TOO LITTLE TIME" for people who cannot forget an accident from three years ago. The parents are shaken because Vergo himself has apparently confirmed the story. They remember him protecting the island from pirates and call him an upstanding officer, but they still cannot accept that children playing happily in the neighborhood simply died at sea. One parent refuses the official lie: "THEY'RE STILL ALIVE, I KNOW IT...!!" Page 4: The parents' conviction carries across the scene: "OUR CHILDREN ARE STILL ALIVE...!! SOMEHOW... SOMEWHERE...!!" On Punk Hazard's ice side, that truth is brutal. The children with Nami and Usopp are still alive, but Caesar's candy has made them suffer terribly. Nami shouts, "USOPP!! HURRY UP AND PUT THEM TO SLEEP!!" One child begs through the pain, "UNDA... THESE CHAINS...!! PLEASE...!!" Usopp fires his sleep attack again, but he admits, "I'M TRYING, BUT... IT DOESN'T WORK SO WELL IF YOU USE IT OVER AND OVER!!!" The withdrawal is too strong. The children strain against their restraints while Nami asks, "TH... THEN WHAT SHOULD WE DO?!!" Page 5: The situation with the children worsens. Someone says they will have to restrain the children by force and calls, "GO ON, SANJI!!" but the person in Sanji's body snaps, "I'M NAMI, REMEMBER?!!" Usopp starts to say that the body looks more useful just by appearance, and Nami answers, "Well, excuse me for being useless!!" The children are not monsters by choice; they are shaking, crying, and desperate for Caesar's candy. They scream, "CANDY... WE NEED CANDY...!!" and "MY HEAD HURTS SO BAAAD..." Another pleads, "IT HURTS SO MUCH...!! JUST GIVE US CANDY... THEN IT'LL ALL BE BETTER..." Then the demand becomes violence: "GIVE US THE CANDY!!!" Someone asks if attacking them is allowed, but the answer is immediate: "OF COURSE IT'S NOT OKAY!!! THEY'RE ONLY CHILDREN!!" Page 6: Back outside the research facility, the fallen Slime masses burst around the battlefield, and Caesar Clown finally appears before the creatures that worship him. The subordinates recognize him at once: "IT'S THE MASTER!!" and "MASTER!!" Caesar rises in his flowing gas body and asks with false affection, "ARE YOU ALL RIGHT, MY CHILDREN...? SHURORORO..." He tells them, "COME ALONG WITH ME, BACK TO THE FACILITY, IT'S DANGEROUS OUT HERE." He tempts them with their addiction: "I'M SURE YOU WANT TO EAT YOUR FAVOURITE CANDY, NOW, DON'T YOU...?" Usopp and Sanji watch in horror, one stammering "M..." and t...