## One Piece Chapter 552, pages 14-15: Ace and Whitebeard - Chapter: 552 - Pages: 14-15 - Characters: Portgas D. Ace, Marco, Whitebeard, Whitebeard Pirates, Marshall D. Teach, Doma ### Summary Page 14: Ace keeps trying to kill Whitebeard day after day. Someone asks if it has been one hundred times by now, and another says it has. Marco notes that Ace is stubborn every single day. Ace then asks why all of them call Whitebeard their "old man" when the world hates them for what they are. Marco answers simply, "Because... he calls us his sons." Ace is startled. Marco says even if it is just a word, it makes them happy. He tells Ace he hopes he will not keep up the nonsense forever, because Ace made a decision: either leave the ship now or stay and bear Whitebeard's mark. Page 15: Ace earns his place among the Whitebeard Pirates. After he has gone and done it again, someone reports that he made the Doma gang surrender. Ace says it has been ages without a commander for the Second Division and asks if he is supposed to command it, but the crew says everyone thinks he is the man for the job. Teach laughs that he does not have that kind of ambition and encourages Commander Ace. Later, Ace asks Whitebeard if he is not like his enemy Roger in personality and whether he will throw him out. Whitebeard laughs and says it does not matter who brought someone into the world: all humans are sons and daughters of the sea.