## One Piece Chapter 696, pages 16-17: Common Interest - Chapter: 696 - Pages: 16-17 - Characters: Smoker, G-5 Marines, Caesar Clown, Straw Hat Pirates, Caesar Clown's Children, Trafalgar Law, Monkey D. Luffy, Kaido, Shanks ### Summary Page 16: The party continues, but the G-5 Marines are pulled back to duty. The children laugh, the Marines drink, and the Straw Hats eat with the same group they were fleeing beside only minutes earlier. Then the Marines shout, "VICE ADMIRAL SMO-YAN!! WE'RE GONNA HEAD TO THE ISLAND ONE MORE TIME!!" Smoker asks, "WHY..." and the answer is urgent: "WE MADE CAESAR SPILL THE BEANS ON HIS POISON GAS' WEAKNESS...!! WE CAN STILL SAVE OUR COMRADES!!" A Marine cries over the petrified soldier, "WHY'S BOKER BILL ALIBE...P?" Their loyalty to their frozen comrades overrides the party. They are not done with Punk Hazard while any G-5 men might still be saved from Shinokuni. Page 17: Law pulls the larger plan back into focus. Smoker calls to him, "LAW," and says, "I KNOW IT SEEMS UNTHINKABLE TO IMAGINE THAT I'D KEEP A PROMISE TO A PIRATE..." Law replies, "IF YOU REALLY INTENDED TO SILENCE ME, YOU'VE HAD PLENTY OF CHANCES... AND I KNOW YOU'RE PLANNING ON USING STRAW-HAT TO START SOMETHING." Smoker asks the question behind the alliance: "YOU WANT TO KNOW WHICH YONKOU I'M THINKING OF?" then names one possibility: "HE'S A MAN CALLED 'KAIDOU OF THE HUNDRED BEASTS.'" Law also says, "USE, HUH... I WONDER WHO'S USING WHOM..." Smoker presses him: "UHHHH WELL AS LONG AS THE FIRST ONE ISN'T SHANKS, WHATEVER!" Luffy answers with a huge grin and an even larger ambition: "CUZ I'M PLANNING ON TAKING DOWN ALL OF THE YONKOU!!" The Punk Hazard victory becomes the first step toward open war with the emperors.