## One Piece Chapter 398, pages 5-6: Declaration of War - Chapter: 398 - Pages: 5-6 - Characters: Nico Robin, Crocodile ### Summary Page 5: The betrayers stare at Robin's bounty and realize too late that she has fled. "And... look at this bounty..." one says. "She's not in the room...!!" Another curses, "Shit...!! That brat overheard us!?" They twist their own betrayal into accusation: "Forgetting all the kindness she's received 'til now, damn it!!!" "Look for her!!!" Robin keeps moving, laughing Saul's laugh through the pain: "Dereshishishi!" On another ship she apologizes, "I'm sorry... I don't have any food." A captain says, "I know a great deal about you, Nico Robin." Robin answers carefully, "I'm on the wanted list, too..." The man offers a place as an apprentice in exchange for work and food, but the pattern repeats. When Marine Headquarters closes in, the ship erupts: "Ooh...!! Save me!!!" "It's the Marine Headquarters!!!" "Captain!!" "Where's Robin!? Hand her over!!!" "Damn it!!! It's because she's onboard!!!" "Robin!!!" "That plagued brat!!!" Page 6: Years of pursuit harden around Robin. Everywhere she goes, people whisper, "Nico Robin is in this town!?" She keeps searching and finally finds what only she can read: "I've found it... A Poneglyph." But the world answers her existence with hatred. "Your mere existence is a sin!!!" A shopkeeper throws her out: "Get outta my store!!! I've got nothing to sell you!!" Former allies turn on her: "You betrayed me, Robin!!!" By sixteen, Robin has learned to offer her usefulness before anyone asks. "I'm 16. I'll do anything. Please let me work for this organization." Crocodile, seeing the value of her forbidden knowledge, tells her, "I want you to help us. I heard that you can read... The 'Poneglyphs'..."