## One Piece Chapter 157, pages 10-11: Ace Appears - Chapter: 157 - Pages: 10-11 - Characters: Smoker, Tashigi, Marines, Portgas D. Ace, unidentified restaurant patrons ### Summary Page 10: A wide view of the bustling desert city is shown. People in Middle Eastern-style clothing walk through the streets, carrying goods and leading camels. A text box introduces the location: "Kingdom of Alabasta Port City, 'Nanohana'". In the streets, Marine Captain Smoker and Sergeant Tashigi are walking. Tashigi notices a commotion and says, "Looks like there's some kind of ruckus going on in that store..." Smoker, smoking his usual two cigars, asks, "What happened?" A Marine runs up to them, saluting hastily. "Ah, sergeant! Apparently some customer died all of a sudden." Another Marine runs up, shouting in panic, "CAPTAAIIN! Capt. Smoker! YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHO SHOWED UP IN THIS TOWN!" Page 11: Inside a restaurant, a man is slumped forward, face-down in a large plate of food. He wears an orange cowboy hat with goggles attached to it and a red beaded necklace. The restaurant is filled with shocked patrons. One bystander says, "I heard he suddenly died while in the midst of a conversation with the restaurant owner." Another adds, "Since he's a traveller... Some of the people think he might have unknowingly eaten the 'Desert Strawberry'..." The man is shown from behind, revealing a large tattoo on his back: a purple cross with a skull that has a white crescent mustache. A bystander explains the poison, "The Desert Strawberry? It's the nickname for the poisonous spider whose body looks just like a red strawberry. Its poison will cause an abrupt death several days after. The poison spreads throughout the entire body. And for several hours following death,"