## One Piece Chapter 398, pages 14-15: Declaration of War - Chapter: 398 - Pages: 14-15 - Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Nico Robin, Spandine, Nico Olvia, Jaguar D. Saul ### Summary Page 14: With the flag burning behind them, Luffy calls across the distance: "Robin!!!" He refuses to let the Government, the past, or even her fear decide for her. "I haven't heard it from you yet!" Everyone waits as he demands the one truth she has been denying herself. "Say you wanna live!!!" Shock ripples through the battlefield: "...!?" "!!" Her friends call to her too: "... Robin!" "Robin!!!" Page 15: Robin hears the word that has always felt forbidden. "Live...!?" Her memories answer with voices that told her the opposite. Spandine once condemned her: "You must not live in this world, Robin!!!" Another voice burned the same sentence into her life: "Your mere existence... is your greatest sin, Robin!!" She thinks of Olvia and Saul, of the impossible wish she had buried. "I thought it was something I couldn't wish for..." Saul's promise returns: "Sumday, surely..." "The sea is vast..." Robin had once chosen despair and said, "I want to die!!!" because, as she admits, "Nobody has ever allowed me that." But Saul's hope remains: "Yer 'nakama' will appear to protect you!!!" A voice urges her to trust the man before her: "Trust in Luffy!!!" Robin begins to let herself say it. "If I can really..." "Declare my wish... I..."