## One Piece Chapter 434, pages 11-13: Whitebeard and Red Hair - Chapter: 434 - Pages: 11-13 - Characters: Shanks, Edward Newgate, Portgas D. Ace, Marshall D. Teach, Thatch ### Summary Page 11: Whitebeard asks, "WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO? THAT'S WHAT YOU CAME HERE FOR, RIGHT?" Shanks answers with no decoration: "PLEASE, STOP ACE!!!" Whitebeard reacts with shock. Shanks explains that despite Ace's youth, Whitebeard trusted him to captain the Second Division, and Shanks admits, "ACE IS STRONG...!!! I KNOW THAT VERY WELL." But that fame and trust complicate everything. The danger is timing: "IT'S NOT YET TIME FOR THEM TO FACE EACH OTHER!!!" Shanks is not questioning Ace's strength; he is warning that strength alone will not protect him from Teach. Page 12: Shanks presses the request to its core: "LEAVE BLACKBEARD TEACH ALONE!! THAT'S THE ONLY WISH I HAVE." Whitebeard laughs, "FUFU... GURARARARA!!" and rejects the idea as childish. "A SNIVELING KID LIKE YOU DARES TO SAY SUCH THINGS," he says. For Whitebeard, Teach's crime cannot be ignored: "HIS CRIME... IS SOMETHING THAT'S HIGHLY FORBIDDEN ON A PIRATE SHIP. HE KILLED A NAKAMA...!! THUS VIOLATING THE ULTIMATE LAW." Whitebeard says he treats any idiot on his ship like his own son and asks where the soul of his murdered son would go if he did nothing. His face hardens as he declares, "IT'S MY RESPONSIBILITY TO GIVE THAT STUPID TEACH A LESSON ABOUT THAT...!!!" and "YOU CAN'T LIVE IN THIS WORLD WITHOUT HUMANITY AND JUSTICE." Page 13: Whitebeard ends the negotiation with the weight of his age and pride: "DO YOU UNDERSTAND, FOOL?" and "YOU ARE 100 YEARS TOO EARLY TO ORDER ME AROUND." Shanks rises from the deck. Whitebeard's bowl tips, his gourd shifts, and Shanks' hand goes to his sword. Then Shanks gives the warning that turns the private talk into a threat to the entire era: "THEN NOBODY WILL BE ABLE TO STOP THIS ERA OF RECKLESSNESS!!" Whitebeard answers with absolute certainty: "I HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR!!! I AM WHITEBEARD!!!" The two emperors draw. The discussion has failed, and the sea itself seems to hold its breath.