## One Piece Chapter 522, pages 17-18: Fatal Disease - Chapter: 522 - Pages: 17-18 - Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Boa Hancock, Boa Sandersonia, Boa Marigold, Portgas D. Ace, Whitebeard, Elder Nyon ### Summary Page 17: Alone with Hancock, Luffy explains plainly: "One of Whitebeard's men is about to be executed, a pirate named Ace. He's my brother!! I want to help Ace!!! But I can't make it on a pirate ship." He asks, "Will you get me aboard the awaiting Marine ship and take me to the prison where Ace is!?" Sandersonia and Marigold overhear and rage at him: "How ridiculously selfish!!! Strawhat Luffy!!! You know the wounds in our sister's heart! And now you want her to go back to that cursed place? What a cruel man!!!" Luffy tells Hancock that if this is her desire, she should answer the order to assemble as a Shichibukai. The page makes the emotional stakes clear: Luffy's request requires Hancock to face the World Government and Marine system connected to her deepest trauma. Page 18: Hancock smiles softly and answers, "Then I... will go wherever you wish." Luffy beams, "Great!!! Thank you!!! Now I can make it before the execution date!!!" The sisters are horrified and shout that Hebihime has decided to go with the Government. Elder Nyon identifies the cause of Hancock's collapse: "Hebihime's disease is... love sickness!!!" She explains that the previous empresses died pining for love as well. As Hancock watches Luffy with a lovestruck glow, Elder Nyon declares, "They have this saying in the East Sea... Love is always... a hurricane!!!" The volume ends with the sisters screaming and Elder Nyon reframing the fatal disease as overwhelming love. Hancock's feelings for Luffy become the very thing that saves her and gives Luffy a way toward Ace.