## One Piece Chapter 398, pages 7-9: Declaration of War - Chapter: 398 - Pages: 7-9 - Characters: Nico Robin, Spandam, Franky, Monkey D. Luffy, Nami, Roronoa Zoro, Sogeking, Sanji, Tony Tony Chopper, Aokiji ### Summary Page 7: Back at Enies Lobby, Robin faces the same terror that destroyed her home. Spandam holds the threat of the Buster Call over everyone, and Robin understands what it means. "If you..." she says, realizing the danger. "Ask for the Buster Call now..." Spandam snarls that it will destroy more than their enemies: "You'll be blown up, too... Along with Enies Lobby...!!" Franky refuses to believe such madness: "Don't be silly!! How could we be blown up by our own allies' attack!?" Robin asks, "What're you talking about!?" Spandam answers with the weight of her trauma: "Twenty years ago... just one attack took everything from me and ruined the lives of many people! That is the 'Buster Call'...!!" Page 8: Robin's fear is no longer only for herself. She looks at the Straw Hats and tells them that the same power that erased Ohara is now aimed at the friends she finally found. "That attack... is now aimed at the dear nakama that I've finally found." The more she wants to remain with them, the more dangerous her life becomes. "The more I wish to be with you, the more my fate will bare its fangs at you!!!" There is no sea where she can outrun it. "No matter what sea I go to, I have this great foe that I can't shake off!!!" Her enemy is not a person standing before her; it is something vast and hidden. "Cause my enemy is... the 'world'... and its 'darkness'...!!!" Page 9: Robin's confession spills out across the gap between her and her crew. "First, the incident with Aokiji!! And now, this...!! I've gotten you involved twice already...!!!" She is certain the burden will someday break even their kindness. "If this goes on forever, even good-natured people like you... will eventually consider me a burden!!! In time, you'll betray and abandon me!!!" That is the fear beneath everything: "That's what I'm most afraid of...!! That's why I didn't want you to come and save me!!!" If her life will only lead to loss, she would rather end it here. "If it's a life that I'll eventually lose, I want to just die right here, right now!!!" Franky, listening from beside her, laughs through the grim truth. "Wahahahahaha!! I see... that's so true!!"