## One Piece Chapter 179, pages 5-7: Showdown at Alubarna - Chapter: 179 - Pages: 5-7 - Characters: Toto, Crocodile, Monkey D. Luffy ### Summary Page 5: A close-up shows the weathered, smiling face of Toto, the old man who tirelessly dug for water in Yuba. Crocodile's voiceover continues, mocking the old man's efforts: "Yuba's still alive and kicking...!" The scene cuts back to Crocodile standing in the desert. He raises his hand, and a massive, swirling sandstorm begins to form in front of him, growing rapidly in size and power. "Yuba will die..." Crocodile declares coldly. "This sandstorm should finish it off once and for all..." He watches the destructive vortex with a sinister calmness, adding, "Such cliched empathy and pity for your fellow man is what will destroy this kingdom... And its destruction will only further fuel the rebels' rage." The sandstorm rages on, a physical manifestation of Crocodile's cruel intentions to obliterate the last remnants of hope in Yuba. Page 6: Crocodile is shown holding Luffy suspended in the air. Crocodile's golden hook is impaled entirely through Luffy's torso. Blood drips from the wound. Crocodile glares at Luffy, saying, "The same applies for you as well, Straw-Hat Luffy. If you'd only thrown your worthless friendship away, you'd have lived to see another day!" Crocodile then notices the small water barrel Luffy was carrying, which is now leaking water onto Crocodile's arm. "Water?" Crocodile questions. "Even all this water can't save you now..." Suddenly, Luffy's hand reaches out and tightly grabs Crocodile's arm. The sound "CLUTCH!" accompanies the action. Crocodile looks down in surprise, uttering a confused "Hm?" as Luffy, despite his fatal injury, shows a final burst of defiant strength, groaning "NGHH!" Page 7: Crocodile's eyes widen in shock as he realizes Luffy is still conscious. "HE'S... STILL ALIVE!?" he exclaims, sweating slightly. Luffy's face is shown in a gruesome close-up, his eyes rolled back, blood pouring from his mouth as he gasps for air, "HAH HAH...GAH". Crocodile violently yanks his hook out of Luffy's body with a sickening "SLUMP!" sound. Luffy plummets towards the ground, crying out "UGHH!" He lands heavily in the sand, clutching his bleeding chest, groaning in immense pain, "NGHH... UGH!" Crocodile looks down at him with a sadistic smirk. "You seem to be in agony...!" he taunts. "But don't worry, you'll soon rest in peace... Hahaha!" Luffy's body begins to roll down the slope of a sand dune, tumbling helplessly towards a pit of quicksand at the bottom, letting out a final "GAHH!" as he falls.