## One Piece Chapter 558, pages 7-9: Brother - Chapter: 558 - Pages: 7-9 - Characters: Portgas D. Ace, Luffy, Whitebeard, Marines, Whitebeard Pirates, Jinbe, Emporio Ivankov, young Luffy, young Ace ### Summary Page 7: Ace screams from the platform, "Stay back!!! Luffy!!!" Luffy keeps fighting and shouts at a Marine to move it, but Ace continues trying to drive him away. He tells Luffy, "I shouldn't have to tell you this!!! You're a pirate, just like me!! We've both sailed the ocean as our hearts guided us!!!" Whitebeard listens silently as Ace insists that Luffy should not be dragged into his fate. The page shifts from battlefield chaos to Ace's pride and shame, because he sees Luffy as an equal pirate whose choices should not be swallowed by Ace's execution. Page 8: Ace continues, "I have my own adventure to live!!! I have my own nakama!!! I don't remember asking you to interfere!!!" Luffy and the others keep pushing through the Marines as Ace shouts, "A weakling like you... coming to save me!? Do you really believe I'm going to forgive you for that!!? This is humiliating!!! Get out of here, Luffy!!! Why did you come!!?" Jinbe and Ivankov listen as Ace's pain spills out. Ace pleads, "Please, Luffy... Don't let me drag you into this too...!!! This is my problem, not yours...!!!" Page 9: Luffy rejects Ace's attempt to push him away, roaring across the battlefield, "'Cause I'm your brother!!!" Ace is stunned. A flashback recalls the ritual that made their bond: "Did you know? If you exchange drinks, you can form a bond of brotherhood! From today on, we are brothers!!" Young Ace and young Luffy smile together. In the present, Luffy adds, "I don't give a crap about those stupid pirate rules!!" Ace can only mutter, "You idiot, Luffy..." The page makes the chapter title explicit: Luffy is not there as a subordinate or ally, but as Ace's brother.