## One Piece Chapter 446: Doctor Hogback - Chapter: 446 - Pages: 0-17 - Characters: Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Usopp, Chopper, Franky, Nami, Cindry, Hogback, Brook, Robin, Cerberus ### Summary Page 0: Chapter 446: "Doctor Hogback" opens with a full-color Viking-themed spread. The Straw Hats wear armor, cloaks, shields, horns, and weapons beneath the line, "WE'RE RUFFIANS FROM THE SEA!! AND FOR OUR GREAT AMBITIONS, WE'LL RUN AROUND FREELY IN THE WIDE WORLD!!" Page 1: Nami, Usopp, and Chopper stand before Doctor Hogback's towering mansion, calling into the dark entrance, "HELLO? ANYONE HOME---?" The building rises like a Gothic tower, with a long tunnel running through the middle. Nami observes, "IT SEEMS LIKE THIS MANSION HAS A TUNNEL RUNNING THROUGH THE MIDDLE. I CAN SEE A COURTYARD BEYOND THAT." Inside, the passage stretches ahead with an old well in the shadows. Usopp worries, "ISN'T ANYBODY HERE...? IT'D BE A BIG PROBLEM IF WE HAD TO TURN BACK AND FACE THE ZOMBIES!!" Chopper points out, "LOOK! THERE'S A LIGHT AT THE END!" Nami says it looks more like a spotlight, and they move farther in despite the unease. Page 2: A woman suddenly appears in the tunnel and says, "Welcome." Nami, Usopp, and Chopper scream, "GYAAAAAAA AAAA!!" She stands silently with a plate in her hands, her face stitched and expression cold. Then she mutters, "KACHA..." and begins throwing dishes at them while counting, "One dish, Two dishes, Three dishes, Four dishes," then "Five dishes, Six dishes, Seven..." The plates fly down the corridor with "PARSH!!" and "TRASH!!" Usopp cries, "EEH---?? WHY IS THAT WOMAN THROWING DISHES??" Page 3: The strange woman keeps hurling plates. Usopp asks, "OUCH!! WHY ARE YOU ONLY THROWING DISHES AT ME??" She answers, "YOU WEREN'T INVITED INTO THE MANSION!" and throws more: "You, go away!! Eight dishes!! Nine dishes!!" Usopp is blasted back with "GUWA-!!" while she tells Nami and Chopper, "You two can come in." Nami asks, "EH? WHY?" Usopp shouts, "THAT'S ENOUGH!! WAIT!!" A laugh echoes: "GACHAR..." and the master of the house appears, saying, "AS AN EXCEPTION, I WON'T MIND IF IT'S JUST ONE PERSON, CINDRY-CHAN!!" He apologizes: "I'M SORRY IF SHE SURPRISED YOU!!" Chopper realizes, "SOMEBODY'S COMING." The man explains Cindry's tragic past: she was engaged to a rich man, broke ten dishes from his treasure to test his love, the engagement was annulled, and she was thrown away. He says, "CINDRY-CHAN, MY SERVANT, DOESN'T LIKE DISHES." Usopp mutters, "YEAH... THAT'S FINE..." Page 4: The man bursts into his own introduction: "WELL THEN, MY LONG AWAITED INTRODUCTION...!!" He declares himself "THE WORLD FAMOUS DOCTOR HOGBACK!!" and "ALSO KNOWN AS A GENIUS!! FOS, FOS, FOS!!" A title box identifies him as the master of the mansion, genius surgeon Doctor Hogback. Behind him, Cindry still pelts Usopp with dishes, and Usopp cries, "USOPP~~~!!" "GYAA!!" "Ten dishes!!" Hogback tells her, "WA-WA-WAIT, CINDRY-CHAN!! IT DOESN'T REFLECT WELL ON ME IF YOU DON'T EVEN LISTEN TO ME!!" Page 5: Chopper can hardly believe it: "THE... REAL DOCTOR HOGBACK!?" Nami asks him, "CHOPPER, IS HE THE ONE YOU MENTIONED...?" Chopper says, "I KNOW! I REALLY KNOW!! HAVEN'T WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THIS??" Nami bluntly says, "HE LOOKS LIKE AN IDIOT," and Chopper yells, "ACK!! NAMI!!" Cindry says, "IT WOULD BE NICE IF THERE WEREN'T DISHES IN THIS WORLD..." Hogback welcomes them anyway: "LET'S CONTINUE THIS DISCUSSION INSIDE... AS AN EXCEPTION, THREE PEOPLE CAN COME IN TODAY. WELCOME." The door opens, and he calls, "COME INTO MY MANSION, QUICKLY!!" Inside, he hesitates alone by the door, sweating: "AH... I STILL... I... STILL..." as if something about the visitors troubles him. Page 6: Hogback receives them in a grand dining hall, laughing, "FOS FOS FOS FOS!!" He says, "IT'S A GOOD THING YOU CAME TO MY MANSION! REALLY, YOU PEOPLE LOOK ABSOLUTELY FILTHY! WHAT HAS CAUSED YOU TO COME HERE?" Chopper says they have many questions, but first Nami explains, "WE CAME HERE WHILE RUNNING AWAY FROM THE ZOMBIES THAT ATTACKED US IN THE GRAVEYARD!!" Hogback answers, "I SEE. SO YOU WERE ATTACKED. IT IS GOOD THAT YOU MADE IT HERE SAFELY. INDEED!" Usopp is suspicious: "ZOMBIES...? FURTHERMORE, WE SAW THINGS THAT MADE ME DISTRUST MY EYES. WHAT THE HECK IS HAPPENING ON THIS ISLAND!? YOU SHOULD KNOW A LITTLE, SINCE YOU LIVE HERE, RIGHT!?" Hogback calmly says that he lives there precisely because he does not know anything about it. Page 7: Chopper asks, "THEN ARE YOU CONDUCTING SOME RESEARCH ON THE ZOMBIES, DOCTOR?" Hogback approves, "INDEED!!" but corrects the word: "IF PEOPLE HEAR THE WORD 'ZOMBIE,' THEY'LL GET FRIGHTENED. HOWEVER THEY WON'T IF YOU SUBSTITUTE IT FOR 'RESURRECTION OF THE DECEASED'!!" He says mankind dreams about eternity, and that there are people who want their relatives brought back from death. Medical science manipulating life and death is considered an offense to God, so he vanished from society and continued researching on this marvelous island. Chopper...