## One Piece Chapter 550, pages 11-13: Marine Headquarters - Chapter: 550 - Pages: 11-13 - Characters: Portgas D. Ace, Sengoku, Whitebeard, Cipher Pol, Marines, World Government, Portgas D. Rouge, Gol D. Roger ### Summary Page 11: The crowd wonders why Ace's father matters now. Ace answers with all the force he can muster: "My father... is Whitebeard!!" When Sengoku says "No!!!" Ace insists, "It's true!! The only father I have is Whitebeard!!! Nobody else!!!" Sengoku begins the hidden history anyway. Long ago, he says, they were desperately searching because that man's child might be alive on some island somewhere. Cipher Pol had only the smallest information, so they checked every newborn child, children born soon after, their mothers as well, and still found nothing. Page 12: Sengoku says that should have been the end of the matter, but Ace's mother gave her life for his birth, using sheer willpower to perform a trick. The Marines understand that she deceived them, and another voice corrects it: she deceived the entire world. Sengoku names the place and the woman behind the impossible deception: in the South Blue there is an island called Baterila, and Ace's mother's name was Portgas D. Rouge. The page shows Rouge by the island shore as Sengoku explains the secret that hid Roger's bloodline. Page 13: Sengoku continues that they never even imagined what Rouge was capable of. Out of love for her child, she carried Ace in her womb for twenty months, and when she finally gave birth, her strength gave out and she died right there. One year and three months had passed since the father died. Sengoku declares that a child was born with the blood of the world's greatest villain running through his veins, and that child was Ace. He tells Ace, "There's no way you don't know...!!" while Ace sweats in silence before the entire Marine force.