## One Piece Chapter 529, pages 9-10: Beast Hell - Chapter: 529 - Pages: 9-10 - Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Galdino, Mr. 3, Buggy, Portgas D. Ace, Manticores, Sphinx ### Summary Page 9: Luffy runs through the chaos and asks Mr. 3, "Hey, you said you'd help me, right?" He wants to know how to get down to Level 3. Mr. 3 is shocked and asks, "You're trying to save Fire Fist Ace!!?" He thought they were escaping upward to Level 1, not going deeper into the prison. Mr. 3 then thinks through the layout and says the stairs from Level 1 continue all the way down to Level 3. Privately, he plans to use Strawhat as bait for the beasts that guard the stairs and then escape himself. Luffy grabs onto the useful part of the information, demanding only to be told where the stairs are. Mr. 3 shouts, "Follow me...!!!" and Luffy cheerfully answers that they should go together. Page 10: A huge creature waits ahead, first muttering "Soumen..." and then roaring "Ramen!!" and "Tamen... Yakisoba!!!" A caption identifies it as the "Level 2 Guardian Sphinx," a human-faced, feathered lion. Luffy stares and says, "A... a lion..." then corrects himself with "No... a man?" while Buggy and Mr. 3 panic. Mr. 3 calls it the guardian of the stairs, the Sphinx. Buggy observes that it can only say the names of noodles, and a footnote explains the "Amen" joke as English rather than noodles. The Sphinx shouts "Amen!" while Buggy misreads it as praying. The page introduces the boss of Level 2's beasts: even sillier than the Manticores in speech, but much more dangerous as the gatekeeper to Level 3.