# Our Journey through Monsters One Shot

An episode of [One Journey (A One Piece Podcast)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1706777962), 23 May 2025, 1 h 00 min.

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This week on our journey we cover another One Shot from before One Piece. Monsters is the story of a wandering samurai named Ryuma, and his journey into a small town that harbors a survivor of a dragon attack. While in this town he bumps scabbards with a couple of random samurai and this leads to the Dragons Horn being blown summoning the very dragon that attacked before. Only this time Ryuma is here to take it down. We’d like to thank 3:33 and AyoBudd for making our 4Kids parody opening. You can find them at https://open.spotify.com/artist/3zSZALQMT4bAcPa2wCzEth. Please follow our Patreon @ patreon.com/onejourneypod Future Episode art will be done by Dillon when he’s done with school. Please follow the podcast @ OneJourneyPod on Bluesky: @OneJourneypod.bsky.social Try to be spoiler free if you follow us there. Shoot us an email @ onejourneypod@gmail.com Follow host Solomon @ KingSolomander on BlueSky: @kingsolomander.bsky.social or @ sidequestfirst on twitch for the occasional stream vod: https://www.twitch.tv/sidequestfirst and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz0fjLXt_q_lD7mY2bpgeSQ Follow Tajun @Tajjjun on chess.com. Thank you for listening and please let us know how we’re doing or any tips you have.

## Transcript

[0:00] There once was a pirate named Gold Rodger who was the king of
[0:04] the pirates. He had fame, power, and wealth
[0:08] beyond your wildest dreams. But that's only part of this
[0:13] story. Yeah, yo, yeah, yo.
[0:17] Dreaming don't give it up. No fame dreaming don't give it
[0:20] up. So long Dreaming, don't give it
[0:22] up. Night dreaming don't give it up.
[0:25] Give it up. Give it up, give it up, give it
[0:27] up. Here's how the story goes.
[0:29] We find out about a treasure in the Grand Line.
[0:31] There's no doubt the pirate whose eyes on it, he'll sing.
[0:34] I'll be king of the pirates. I'm gonna be king.
[0:36] Yeah, yo, yeah, yo, yeah, yo. That's right, one journey king.
[0:43] Of the. It's made of nonsense.
[0:46] How did that? Happen.
[0:47] Yo ho ho, We took a bite of dumb.
[0:48] Dumb. Yeah.
[0:49] Yo, yeah, yo. We're reading again this week.
[1:17] The shocking turn of events and a lack of meeting time
[1:20] continues. So we are covering another ODA
[1:23] one shot. Dylan and Tajin were given the
[1:25] choice among the five one shots in The Wanted collection on the
[1:29] Shonen Jump app. With Tajin's choice today we are
[1:33] covering monsters. This will I'll say that in a
[1:37] second. Hello, my name is Solomon and
[1:39] welcome to episode 69.20. Yeah.
[1:43] I had to get the 69 in there for Tajin here.
[1:46] Yep, can't miss it. So welcome Tajin.
[1:49] But yeah, we're covering Monsters this week, which we've
[1:52] kind of covered before when the Netflix like special released.
[1:58] Yep. And I'm not gonna lie, it's
[2:00] basically a one to one. You're not going to get to see
[2:02] the Zorro part though that you saw because that was fully just
[2:08] the anime, OK? That was a little different.
[2:10] Yeah, like, I don't remember it being too different, but either
[2:13] way, it's it's a fun thing. It's a cool thing.
[2:15] This was your pick. You didn't even realize it was
[2:18] the same shit. I really didn't.
[2:19] I didn't realize it until you sent me the screenshots.
[2:21] And I was like, wait, this is the shit.
[2:24] This is. The shit I've seen this but
[2:27] before we go any further you were telling me you got another
[2:29] spoiler so for people listening. Yeah.
[2:32] Be careful, we're going to talk about the spoiler he got just
[2:35] now. Apparently it's not that it's a
[2:38] spoiler, but according to Solomon, who is caught up with
[2:41] the anime and the the manga, he knows just as much as I know
[2:45] which Can I say what the spoiler is?
[2:47] Yeah, like if you're if people who are not caught up with anime
[2:51] or manga. Skip, skip like 3 minutes, yeah.
[2:55] Hello, you are going to want to jump to the seven minute and 13
[2:59] second mark if you do not want the spoiler that Tajin got.
[3:04] Oh, I didn't include this. Actually, this is like going to
[3:08] be like 20 seconds, so make that 733.
[3:12] Bye. But the spoiler I saw on TikTok
[3:16] was this guy named Saturn who is I guess.
[3:19] I think they called him one of the the five Councilman or like
[3:23] elders or some shit like that. You've seen them.
[3:25] Oh, yeah, I know. I when I whenever I he just
[3:27] showed up, I was like, this is the guy that we like just saw a
[3:31] couple episodes ago. He was like one of the people at
[3:33] the table. Yeah.
[3:34] And I don't know what his powers are.
[3:38] Don't worry, neither do I. Yeah, I don't know.
[3:39] I don't know what's going on there.
[3:41] But I do remember that when they were announcing him, it was said
[3:46] that no mortals could see him or like no no normal people could
[3:51] gaze upon him. So I don't know what the deal
[3:54] is. I.
[3:54] Think that that might be just like, oh, anyone who sees me
[3:58] right now because I'm a big member, the God to some people,
[4:02] yeah, kill them. Yeah, because they're not
[4:05] allowed to see me. Yeah, like that type of shit.
[4:07] Yeah. I think it's more that than it's
[4:09] like, oh, they legitimately can't see me.
[4:11] Oh yeah, I know, I know, I know. That's not like I obviously they
[4:14] could see him physically, but just I guess obviously I didn't
[4:19] know he was a God until. I I don't think he is.
[4:22] Maybe he is. I don't know.
[4:24] Maybe he wants to be. I don't fucking.
[4:25] Know, but he's he. We we really don't know a lot
[4:28] about them. That's like the biggest reveal
[4:29] that any, like we've had about them.
[4:31] Yeah, in 1000 episodes. Yeah, but just based on the fact
[4:35] that he people aren't allowed to gaze upon him means that he
[4:40] might have transcended to that level, at least in in some way,
[4:44] shape or form. Yeah, like it's it's kind of a
[4:47] big spoiler just because as you saw those guys are like it.
[4:51] What did it call them when you first met them?
[4:52] The the like world's highest authority or something?
[4:56] Yeah, well, you're seeing them do shit.
[4:59] So it blew all our minds. OK But you got to be more
[5:02] careful in the TikTok my man. Bro, it was like, OK, did you
[5:06] see it? Have you already seen it?
[5:07] I've already seen it. You already seen it.
[5:08] It was like perfect because it was like it was just him showing
[5:11] up. You know how it like just shows
[5:12] like the shit going on and then it cut to like the there was 2
[5:17] Marines and he cut to them and I was like oh fuck.
[5:20] So I recognized I was like, these are Marines.
[5:21] And then after they cut right back to you, I was like, well,
[5:25] it's too late now. Did you watch the rest or did
[5:28] you scroll away at that point? No, I was you fucking.
[5:32] I was too invested. I was like, well, I it's too
[5:35] late. Son of a bitch.
[5:39] No, that's fair. It's like I, I, I don't think I
[5:40] could leave that either. I'd be like, oh shit, yeah, I.
[5:42] Was like what the fuck is going on?
[5:45] You're a terrible person though. I'm at Skype and they're doing
[5:47] this shit right now. Oh dude, I can't wait.
[5:50] Dude, you're you're gonna love when we get to that level of
[5:54] shit. That was crazy.
[5:56] It it's insanity, the current fight too that's going on.
[6:01] Have you asked me about a a light guy before?
[6:04] Yeah, he was there too. I.
[6:05] Think OK, yeah, he's involved. OK, yeah, yeah, I remember.
[6:08] I don't know if I saw him or if I saw like, I know how he
[6:11] travels. Yeah.
[6:12] And I was like, oh shit. Yeah, no, he's also involved but
[6:16] that whole shits crazy and the fights are crazy right now
[6:19] because my God, One piece is it just keeps showing U.
[6:24] The six month break I think legitimately was like just give
[6:28] our animators some time. They going to show out for the
[6:30] next 6 months. And it's kind of why I hope it
[6:33] goes seasonal. I would rather it just go
[6:35] seasonal because it it gives people time to actually animate,
[6:38] gives them time to Polish because the weeklies that's
[6:41] hard. I can't imagine how hard it's
[6:43] been to make One Piece for as long as they have.
[6:45] Yeah, for real. That's crazy.
[6:47] Because what? That's literally like 25 years,
[6:49] no breaks. Like the anime never took time
[6:52] off. Like, really?
[6:54] That's impressive. Yeah, so the the six month break
[6:57] was it was it was coming up. Hi, Pepper.
[6:59] Yes, Pepper. I know your favorite person's
[7:01] here. Your tail, your tail.
[7:03] God, she'll fucking loves you, dude.
[7:05] I know you you don't like your tail being touched, but relax.
[7:08] She is not a fan of the tail touches.
[7:10] Yeah. She tried to bite me again the
[7:12] other night when my partner was playing with her.
[7:14] That's fucked up, Pepper. It's like she gets riled up and
[7:17] she's like, well, I don't want to bite you, but that
[7:20] motherfucker over there. Yeah, he looked at me wrong
[7:22] while I was playing. That's messed up, Pepper.
[7:26] Why would you do such a thing? But yeah, so spoilers are over
[7:30] for sure now. No mentioning anything else,
[7:34] Tajin. Yeah, no.
[7:36] Our other things that we usually do, birthdays, we're not going
[7:39] to do. We're going to save it for a
[7:40] regular episode. So our next regular episode
[7:42] we're going to have like 4 weeks of birthdays.
[7:45] Damn. Yeah, well, we have.
[7:47] We'll have Dylan's episode for the upcoming week, this episode
[7:52] for the week after that, then the spoiler cast the week after
[7:54] that, and then the week that we record.
[7:57] Yeah. So yeah, that's a lot.
[7:59] That's a lot of shit, but it'll help me build up a little bit of
[8:01] a buffer until because I have the vacation coming up in July
[8:06] too. Yeah.
[8:07] So hopefully, you know, hopefully we can keep this
[8:09] buffer till then. I know Dylan's about to be done
[8:12] with school too, so. Yeah, that's good.
[8:14] Yeah, that should help. And we just work.
[8:16] That's what we do, Tejan. Yep, we work.
[8:18] And I'm going back to school though in the fall, so fuck.
[8:21] Nice, I go finish my teaching certificate.
[8:23] If I I don't know if you'd know this because I have talked about
[8:27] it, but I don't know if like I ever made it clear.
[8:29] But whenever I if I ever do get into what I want to do and go to
[8:33] school for that wild will more than likely be gone for like 6
[8:37] months. Damn yeah.
[8:38] So I'll buy 4 for the fire Academy.
[8:41] Oh yeah, because. It would be unless that's just
[8:43] hard. Dude, I I respect that shit.
[8:44] I. I would be I would be living
[8:46] there for six months. Yeah, that'd be our six month
[8:48] hiatus. Yeah, I'd be.
[8:49] I'd be able to come down on weekends and we can probably do
[8:51] something then. But.
[8:53] Yeah, we just like time it out. Yeah.
[8:55] No, like, I, I respect. Yeah, firefighters are fucking
[8:57] cool. Did I tell you, the dude who
[8:59] worked with me at work, who just left a little bit ago, he's a
[9:03] firefighter. That's why he left.
[9:04] He does the forest fires. He's a hotshot.
[9:08] Yeah, those guys are crazy. Yeah, he's one of those.
[9:11] He goes out there and does forest fires.
[9:13] He's crazy. Yeah, that's scary.
[9:14] I don't know how to do that. I don't know if I can do it
[9:16] either. They have to like I guess.
[9:17] Like they literally like set up like camps.
[9:19] Yeah, I know. That's crazy.
[9:20] They like go live they. Live right next to the fire.
[9:22] That's crazy. That's ballsy, man.
[9:24] Yeah. But yeah, we we get enough fires
[9:26] out here that that's probably really needed, though.
[9:28] Yeah, you even Rayford just wanted to be a regular
[9:31] firefighter. I hope you get in, dude.
[9:33] That'll be sick. I hope I get in too.
[9:35] You've been like, how do you apply for that shit?
[9:38] So the way it works is they only hire once.
[9:42] I know they hired twice every year because it's a six month
[9:45] training period. So you have to wait for them to
[9:47] be done with their like current Academy.
[9:49] And then they go into the hiring process which is a written test,
[9:53] a physical test, a mile and a half run and they have to do 2
[9:56] interviews. And then if they like you
[9:58] through all of that, they like you're just accepted into the
[10:03] Academy. And then you just got to, like,
[10:05] survive six months of hard, harsh training, I imagine.
[10:08] Yeah, I like firefighter shit. That's just cool.
[10:12] Hard. Respectable.
[10:13] I almost got in last year so I'm hoping I get in this.
[10:15] Year. Fuck yeah bro.
[10:16] What did you miss last year? I don't I don't know
[10:20] specifically what I missed. I think it's more so the fact
[10:22] that any fire like you could ask any firefighter this and any of
[10:26] them I have talked to have told me the same thing.
[10:28] But no one, unless you like fucking Captain America super
[10:32] soldier serum type shit, you're not going to get in on your
[10:34] first attempt. And the reason for that is
[10:37] because they want to see who comes back because it shows that
[10:40] you're dedicated and committed to like what you're trying to
[10:42] do. Because you obviously you have
[10:44] to deal with some pretty harsh things being a firefighter.
[10:47] Yeah, no for. Sure.
[10:47] So they want to make sure that you know they can rely.
[10:49] On you I like. That's the complete opposite of
[10:51] me as a teacher. They're like, we'll accept
[10:53] anyone, just apply please. Yeah, fucking shit.
[11:00] Yeah, but all the, all the firefighters, cuz I, I do have
[11:02] like a plug up there that I know.
[11:04] And he was like, you did really well for your first try.
[11:07] Cuz I went down to the final 25 people out of everyone who
[11:10] applied and they were only taking 15.
[11:13] But you were close. Yes, I was close and they all
[11:15] said that I did very well for my first attempt and not to be
[11:20] discouraged and just keep working hard and then come back
[11:22] next year and I was like OK. Well I hope it works out.
[11:25] That would be fucking awesome. Like say if you can't be on for
[11:28] a while, you can't be on for a while.
[11:29] Or we take us to our own 6 month hiatus.
[11:32] Yeah one or the other. You know it would suck if we had
[11:34] to take 6 month hiatus, but hey, it is what it is for people to
[11:37] do the shit they want to do. Yeah.
[11:39] Put it way back to One Piece. How can I tie that into One
[11:42] Piece? The closest thing is the fire
[11:44] tank pirates, which are not firefighters.
[11:46] Interesting. Do they dress up like them?
[11:48] No, actually in the manga currently there have been
[11:56] firefighters. Really.
[11:58] Yeah, because there's a big ass tree on fire.
[12:00] Oh shit, yeah. And that's that's current.
[12:03] Yeah, that's current shit and. What the fuck is going on?
[12:06] There's your little spoiler related to what you want to do
[12:09] for a living. Nice.
[12:11] If you had not brought up what you want to do for a living, you
[12:13] would have never known that spoiler.
[12:14] I really want to have motivation.
[12:16] There you go. You could.
[12:17] You could be in the One Piece world as a firefighter there.
[12:20] Yeah, they exist. You couldn't be one of the
[12:22] firefighters that's on the fucking in the monger right now.
[12:25] No, that sounds. That sounds scary.
[12:28] All right, But yeah, we're gonna be reading Monsters.
[12:30] Shit, I didn't ask you beforehand.
[12:31] Would you rather have the first half or the second-half?
[12:34] I will do the first half all. Right.
[12:36] How many fucking pages is monsters actually?
[12:38] Yeah, wait. You picked the longest 1 I
[12:40] think. Fuck.
[12:44] Take it away. 10 years ago a dragon horn was stolen.
[12:47] This horn, said to have mysterious powers, was an
[12:50] utterly unique Curio, a true one-of-a-kind.
[12:54] Wait, Curio, do you know? Do you know what a curio?
[12:57] Is. I've never seen that.
[12:58] Curiosity. OK.
[13:00] Yeah, Curio is like a like a, a curious item.
[13:04] OK. That's like a good way to
[13:05] describe it because it's just literally a shortened version of
[13:07] the word curiosity. OK, Yeah.
[13:10] Was an utterly unique curio, a true one-of-a-kind.
[13:14] The guards were killed and the mystery went unsolved.
[13:17] Monsters. Hey, did you hear that Sherano's
[13:21] in town right now? You mean like the Sherano people
[13:24] are murmuring in the background? There's a wee wee.
[13:28] I want to know who what the fuck that is.
[13:30] I'd imagine the wind. Oh.
[13:32] That's fair that that does that makes sense.
[13:34] Yeah, Wham, of course you can't eat without paying.
[13:39] There's no love in this town. Well, I refuse to give up and
[13:43] die in such a miserable place as he's gurgling on the ground.
[13:47] Wobble, isn't that right? Yes, yeah, OK.
[13:50] He was at Restaurant Guavard. I believe it's, I think it's
[13:54] Gerard. Gerard.
[13:56] Yeah, Gerard, look, it's Serrano.
[13:59] They say he's the equal of that master swordsman king.
[14:03] It's been so long since you visited Serrano, I thought I'd
[14:07] never see you again, the Flare waitress says.
[14:10] Flare's her name. Oh, Flare, the waitress says.
[14:14] Oh yes, fancy meeting you in a place like this.
[14:17] It's been 7 years. I hardly recognized you.
[14:19] I'm glad. I'm glad.
[14:20] You seem to be doing well. Sherano, the master swordsman.
[14:24] Good luck on that one, Yeah. Ziglurg lurk ziglurk, ziglurk
[14:29] ziglurk Oh shit monsters. Title drop.
[14:36] In this uneventful era, there is just one thing that disturbs the
[14:40] idyllic peace and rains down terror from the sky.
[14:44] A horror whose arrival spelled absolute destruction.
[14:47] A dragon. Whoo.
[14:50] Now that was a meal. I'm stuffed.
[14:52] Nothing tastes better than the first meal in five days.
[14:56] Ha ha, ha, ha, ha. Ryuma the samurai.
[14:59] Thank you for your generosity. My life is yours until I have
[15:02] repaid this debt. That's really not necessary.
[15:05] But it is. You saved my life, and I must
[15:08] repay that. Any true swordsman, any human
[15:11] being, would do the same. One's debt is 1's master.
[15:15] To a swordsman, life is but a tool to be used for the sake of
[15:19] those he owes a debt. And what?
[15:22] You're leaving already, Sherano? Yes, that's fucked up.
[15:26] She just ignored his ass and locked away.
[15:31] Saying all that and she was gone.
[15:32] That's crazy. Yes, I'm afraid I'm in a hurry,
[15:36] but we will meet again. Take care of yourself.
[15:39] I like that her fucking shit just says restaurant yes apron,
[15:42] no no special words, just restaurant.
[15:45] Just where I work restaurant. Shirano walking clankly away.
[15:50] No, the clank is the clanking of their scabbards of the swords.
[15:53] Oh, OK, yeah, so that that's their swords hitting each other.
[15:56] Oh shit, I thought, I thought that he had like Spurs.
[15:58] No, no. Shirano clanks Rayuma's other
[16:02] sword. Not another step.
[16:04] Mustachio so. It's your first time, That's the
[16:07] type of panel I would recommend you describe it.
[16:09] I describe it. Yeah, OK.
[16:11] Just so people like understand the the reaction.
[16:14] OK so Ryuma's reaction to the clink is 1 of utter locking in.
[16:20] He locks in and is very upset, standing up quickly as Sherano
[16:26] is walking out of the door. Not another step Mustachio as he
[16:30] slams onto the table. Well what's this about?
[16:33] I heard that your scabbard struck my scabbard Ting as he
[16:38] lifts up his Cortana. A little collision.
[16:41] My apologies. It wasn't on purpose.
[16:44] I hope. I hope you don't take it
[16:45] personally. A sword is a swordsman's life.
[16:48] You should know that. Sorry.
[16:50] Won't cut it. You realize what you've done.
[16:52] Hitting my scabbard is akin to challenging me to a duel.
[16:56] Draw your sword. This is a duel.
[16:58] He's challenging Sharano. That's madness.
[17:01] He'll die. Don't do it RAW as he dashes
[17:05] towards Sharano, slicing. Where'd that statue come from?
[17:10] I know, right? Was that in a previous panel?
[17:12] Oh yeah, it's there are. They even still in the
[17:14] restaurant. Yes.
[17:16] Oh yeah, it is. Yeah.
[17:16] The statue's like, next to the door, Yeah.
[17:18] That's a weird place to put that.
[17:20] Yeah, that is, that's odd. You swing a mean sword, huh?
[17:24] Ding Sharano lunges towards Ryuma.
[17:28] Ryuma stands dazed and confused. You've lost this fight.
[17:32] What? Oh is that?
[17:35] Is that Zorro? It kind of looks like Zorro.
[17:37] The statue. Yeah, the statue.
[17:39] Maybe it was him still tinkering with Zorro's design and he just
[17:42] wanted to sneak it in. Yeah.
[17:44] Oh, I got cut. Hey buddy, ain't that statue A a
[17:49] random man is talking to the barkeep.
[17:51] That's right. It's made out of solid bronze.
[17:54] I didn't know you could cut it with a sword.
[17:56] Don't make me laugh. This is a battle to the death
[17:59] between men. It doesn't end until someone's
[18:02] life does. Sharano stands, annoyed at
[18:06] Rayuma's determination. Stop Says I forgot her name
[18:12] Flair I. Was like, I don't remember, I
[18:15] can't help you stop. Says flair as my debtor
[18:18] commands. Ryuma bows.
[18:21] And everyone else bashes their fucking heads.
[18:23] Real table bows too. They're not bowing, bro.
[18:26] Oh, they're not. No, they're bashing their heads
[18:28] on the table like you, like a kind of you dumb ass type of,
[18:31] you know, you've seen it like where people just bash their
[18:33] head against something like you fucking idiot.
[18:35] Yeah, it's like that. Oh OK, we're outside now.
[18:39] Nish Yammer, Yammer. It's just the background noises.
[18:42] Introduction Dr. third rate swordsman.
[18:46] Or maybe that DRDR third rate swordsman Serrano.
[18:50] Never heard of him. I want to teach you something
[18:52] real fast. This is a big ODA special.
[18:53] OK, so the Doom and you will hear that shit in the anime.
[18:59] It literally when that note hits, it goes OK.
[19:02] Like it's a really epic note. He uses it a lot.
[19:05] It's one of his favorites. Have we, have we already heard
[19:07] anything? We've heard it a ton.
[19:09] Yeah, generally it's used for like, epic introductions, epic
[19:12] scenes. Yeah.
[19:14] Like a good one would probably be thinking of the Zorro versus
[19:19] Mihawk fight. Oh, OK.
[19:21] Like, you have all that swelling music.
[19:23] Yeah. And then it they do their, like,
[19:25] attacks right? Where like Zorro's spinning his
[19:27] swords and Mihawk actually uses his big sword.
[19:30] Yeah. And it probably ends with a as,
[19:33] like, they're separate, OK? Like, after they've passed each
[19:36] other and tried to cut each other.
[19:37] And then Zorro would fall at the end of the doom.
[19:39] OK, yeah. That's like a big ODA special.
[19:42] He loves that fucking noise. Interesting.
[19:45] I'll keep a ear out for that when we're watching the anime
[19:48] next. Sharano.
[19:50] Never heard of him. You know about the horrible
[19:52] surprise attack of seven years ago, don't you?
[19:54] Hmm, I've heard of it. I think a little village tucked
[19:59] away in the mountains was attacked by a dragon and wiped
[20:02] out in the span of a single night.
[20:04] It was so sudden, so remote, and so I'll timed the nearby towns
[20:09] were helpless to do anything. It was a reminder of the dreaded
[20:12] power of Dragons. Everyone assumed that the entire
[20:16] village was dead, but from the ashes of the buildings was a
[20:20] swordsman carrying a child. It was all I could do.
[20:24] To save one poor girl. It was Sharano, who was already
[20:28] a renowned swordsman. When everyone else was helpless,
[20:31] he stood. He strode into the blaze to do
[20:34] combat with the dragon as he falls and thumps to the ground.
[20:38] He went in there to save lives. Considering the flames all over
[20:41] the mountain, it's a miracle two people survived.
[20:44] And the one person that he managed to save from the fire
[20:48] was her. Over there.
[20:50] Has the bar key points to flare the waitress.
[20:53] Huh. Raima turns, looking confused.
[20:57] It was her. Serrano's a model swordsman.
[21:00] They say he's second only to the great master King.
[21:04] Really. King?
[21:05] Well, they say King's the strongest in the world.
[21:08] I bet he must have the heart of a great warrior.
[21:11] Just between you and me. I've been hoping to fight him
[21:14] one day. Well, you won't be able to
[21:17] recognize him. He rarely ever appears in
[21:19] public. And what's the heart of a of a
[21:22] warrior thing? See change.
[21:24] Yeah, see change. I have to change this slide
[21:27] second OK chatter. The fucking wind noises, I don't
[21:31] think you need to do those. OK, good.
[21:33] Those seem excessive. They do.
[21:35] If I could whistle, that'd be better.
[21:37] But you can't whistle either. I.
[21:38] Cannot whistle. I can't whistle.
[21:39] I wish I could same. I always wanted to whistle.
[21:42] Yeah, same. Someone teach us to whistle.
[21:44] Please, someone give us a detailed e-mail of how to
[21:48] whistle. Who?
[21:51] Now that my stomach's full, my legs feel strong again.
[21:54] It's hard to believe I was at death's door an hour ago.
[21:57] She's really something, huh? Ryoma says as he thinks a flair.
[22:00] The lone survivor of a of an entire town.
[22:04] But you'd never guess it. I bet that Sharano guy must be a
[22:08] huge inspiration for her. Sharano and Ryoma.
[22:11] Oh wait, that's not Sharano, that's Dr. That's that's Dr.
[22:14] Yeah, yeah. Dr. You tell from the Dr. on his
[22:16] face. Tattooed onto his face, Dr. and
[22:21] Ryuma walk past each other, their scabbards clank.
[22:25] Ryuma once again looks annoyed. Pissed off bro.
[22:29] Annoyed, pissed off as this happens.
[22:32] Dr. on the other hand, makes no note of it.
[22:35] Stop right there. Eep.
[22:38] What do you want? Let let go of me.
[22:41] What did I ever do to you? Yah, huh.
[22:45] Eek, random crowds people. I always love the random crowd
[22:48] shots and this shit. I wonder.
[22:51] Oh wait, no, maybe not. Why?
[22:54] Why is there ADR has been stabbed, Huh.
[22:58] Hey, wait, I didn't do any. Why do you stab me?
[23:01] What did I ever do to you? Damn, it hurts.
[23:04] Unless aha, that's it isn't it? You knew you're after it too,
[23:10] you dirty cheat. You stab me out of nowhere, but
[23:14] mark my words, you won't have it.
[23:16] Do you think you could kill me for it?
[23:18] Well, think again. I won't die alone.
[23:21] You'll go to the grave with me, Thief.
[23:24] You and this entire town. Hey, knock it off.
[23:27] What are you? What are you saying?
[23:29] You'll never have the Dragon's horn.
[23:31] Dr. proceeds to blow through the Dragon's horn.
[23:35] Which I'm trying to see it in any other panel.
[23:38] Do you see it at all before it's just suddenly being blown?
[23:41] Yeah, no, I don't see it at all. Like where the fuck did he pull
[23:44] it out? I, I, I going through all of
[23:46] them, I don't see it at all. I guess just did it.
[23:49] Yeah, just he has his infinite bag.
[23:52] Damn. Didn't know we were playing D&D
[23:55] Bag of holding. Did did he just say Dragon's
[23:59] horn? I definitely heard him say it.
[24:01] The one that was stolen a decade ago.
[24:04] The horn they claim can control Dragons.
[24:07] Wait a second. But he just blew the horn in his
[24:10] hand. Dr. breaks the horn.
[24:12] Does that mean no it must be a fake and if it's real he can use
[24:16] it again to stop the dragon from it's real.
[24:20] If you want to doubt me, be my guest.
[24:22] But very soon Dr. thuds and falls to the ground.
[24:27] He summoned a dragon. Run for your lives.
[24:30] A Dragon's on the way. It's over for us.
[24:33] This town's a goner. Flee to the hills.
[24:36] Why is it a goner? What's happening right now?
[24:39] Raima asked, confused. How did you do that?
[24:42] What were you thinking? Damn it, who are you anyway?
[24:45] Should have been obvious that attacking the guy with a horn
[24:48] would lead to this. The townspeople crowd.
[24:50] Rayuma, hang on, I really didn't do anything.
[24:54] Oh hey, you help me out. These people don't get it.
[24:57] Can you explain? He asks to Flair.
[25:01] It was you. Hey Flair, that's what I'm
[25:03] saying. I.
[25:05] Flair stands, looking determined, possibly angry as
[25:08] well. She smacks Rayuma.
[25:12] Ow, that hurt. What was that for?
[25:14] I wouldn't have helped you if I'd known you were like this.
[25:19] I should have let you starve. Murderer.
[25:21] What do you mean murderer? I.
[25:23] You. I owe you my life.
[25:24] But watch your tongue. Commit sapuku.
[25:26] Shut up. Anyone who's actually seen a
[25:29] dragon, no matter how wicked they are, would never do such a
[25:32] stupid thing. You just you just don't know how
[25:35] terrifying they can be. Flayer says how she reminisces
[25:38] of her time encountering a dragon.
[25:41] Listen, I don't know what's going on, but I know it ain't
[25:44] right. Something's fishy here.
[25:46] This ain't this isn't my fault. Not your fault.
[25:49] Yes, it is. What are you going to do about
[25:52] it? Yeah.
[25:52] And don't offer to do Herakiri. That won't fix anything.
[25:57] If that horn wasn't fake, there's a dragon on the way.
[26:00] But I'm telling you, it's not my fault.
[26:03] I hate to bring bad news, but this horn is real.
[26:07] It is indeed the very dragon horn that was stolen years ago.
[26:10] The men who died. Wait, did I read the bottom one
[26:12] first? Yeah, do the bottom one first.
[26:14] Sherano Mustachio. Oh, so I would just say Sherano
[26:19] there. That's just they had to fit his
[26:21] name into a bubble that doesn't really fit his name.
[26:25] Yeah, that's that's hard lettering.
[26:27] Yeah. That's why litterers actually
[26:28] get paid some good money. Like not the best money.
[26:31] I'm not going to say they're rich people.
[26:32] Yeah, Yeah. But that's why it's a job.
[26:34] Yeah, it's a hard thing to do. Yeah.
[26:36] The men who died trying to protect this dragon horn 10
[26:38] years ago were all Knights under my command.
[26:41] My subordinates. How?
[26:43] It burns my soul that I had the poor luck not to be there at
[26:47] that moment. Blame him all you want, but the
[26:50] dragon will come. Would you let me do battle with
[26:53] the beast? Were you really Sharano?
[26:55] Hooray. Sharano's going to slay the
[26:57] dragon for us. Wait, everyone.
[26:59] That's insane. Even for Sharano.
[27:01] It's impossible. No human being has ever been,
[27:04] has ever been in a dragon before.
[27:07] It's not even a question of winning or losing.
[27:09] We're on different levels. Shouldn't that just be common
[27:12] sense? You know this.
[27:14] Sherano puts his hand on Flair's shoulder. 10 years ago I
[27:19] expected this would happen. I've been searching for the horn
[27:22] ever since, but I never found it.
[27:24] All that I have now are meaningless feats of skill and a
[27:27] first rate repetition. But at least let me put them to
[27:31] the test. Let me be a swordsman.
[27:33] Wow. Listen to the cool guy Bond like
[27:36] and the Disaster 10, 10 years ago.
[27:37] The people here can run away. You've got to die for a bunch of
[27:40] buildings. Oh shut your mouth.
[27:43] This is all your fault. Yeah, Outsider, you're just a
[27:46] killer anyway. Murderer cut open your belly.
[27:49] Commits to puku catching Ryuma grabs his Cortana.
[27:54] He. Looks fucking.
[27:55] Crazy he does look crazy. He looks scary.
[27:57] He's. About to murder the Old Town
[28:00] himself. What the fuck will?
[28:01] The dragon even guess there. Dragon's going to pull up, be
[28:04] like. What the fuck happened?
[28:07] If you don't shut your mouths, stop this.
[28:09] You don't need to kill yourself too.
[28:12] I wasn't going to. The dragon will be here soon.
[28:15] Hurry. Everyone.
[28:16] Get out of town. I will do my utmost, but it may
[28:19] not be enough. Sharano.
[28:22] Oh, Sharano. No.
[28:23] I mean, I just love Sharano. If I should lose this fight,
[28:26] please forgive me. You got to change real quick.
[28:29] The town empty and desolate now. Ryan was still around.
[28:32] Hey, everyone else ran away. Shut up.
[28:35] I heard about you. You survived that dragon attack.
[28:38] Are they really that scary? Sounds like Mustachio's actually
[28:41] a renowned swordsman. Shows flair reminiscing of the
[28:45] dragon has it slaughters her town.
[28:47] OK, another fun trick about manga.
[28:50] So generally he doesn't fully commit to it here because it's
[28:53] not fully one thing when you see black backgrounds.
[28:56] So there's like black line. Yeah.
[28:57] So let's imagine this whole area is covered in black behind it.
[29:01] That's a flashback, yeah. So she's only having like 1/2
[29:04] flashback right now, right? Because we're still seeing her.
[29:07] So it gives us only half of the effect.
[29:09] OK. So really good artist skill.
[29:11] That's actually an Odo thing. He did that.
[29:14] Yeah, I didn't know that that's how they did flashbacks.
[29:16] Yeah, flashbacks. You always know that it's in a
[29:18] black background. OK, Yeah.
[29:21] Flayers partially having a flashback to when the dragon
[29:23] slayed her town. Flayers stands up abruptly.
[29:27] Why you must standing by the door.
[29:29] Hey, what's the matter? As Flayer runs away, he can't,
[29:32] can't do this. It's madness.
[29:34] At least let me put them to the test.
[29:36] Let me be a swordsman. As she thinks of what?
[29:39] What was his name? Sherano.
[29:41] Sherano just said to her. A dragon and a human are no
[29:44] match in combat. You got to stop Mustachio.
[29:47] I don't think it will work like. I'm just going to say, look how
[29:49] far behind he was. Yeah, no, he caught fast.
[29:51] He he got speed. Yeah.
[29:53] Sherano's going to die for this town's sake, he's making the
[29:57] ultimate sacrifice for scum like you.
[29:59] Raima stands, shocked that he was just called that.
[30:02] Hey, keep walking. Raima draws his blade and points
[30:07] it at Flares throat. Don't turn around, just leave
[30:12] the town Flair looking confused as to what's going on right now.
[30:16] No, don't, don't Look, I love that that's her turning.
[30:19] Yep. So as she turns around it turns
[30:21] out he was drunk trying to threaten her with by killing
[30:24] her. He just didn't want her to see
[30:26] what's behind her as she sees behind her Dr. and Serrano
[30:31] laughing maniacally and she says Serrano and that other man and
[30:36] she wrote again reminisces about what he said.
[30:39] I will do my utmost but it may not be enough.
[30:42] If I should lose this fight. Please forgive me and flair No
[30:47] as Ryuma grabs her. Would you snap out of it?
[30:51] They'll kill you if they spot you.
[30:53] The most miserable looters you could ever expect to see during
[30:56] an emergency. I feel sorry for you that I did.
[31:00] I feel so sorry for you that I don't even know what to say.
[31:03] Just give it up as flares on her knees on the ground, silent, and
[31:08] then we have a that samurai cracks me up.
[31:12] I hit a scabbard just like you said.
[31:13] He says stop right there as that's Dr. talking.
[31:17] I realized as I was reading it. Yeah.
[31:20] And we got another maniacal laugh, like.
[31:23] But now we can repeat what we did seven years ago.
[31:26] Help ourselves to all the valuables and have the dragon
[31:29] dispose of the town using this dragon horn.
[31:32] And we'll have another 10 years of luxury.
[31:34] In fact, more like 25 this time. That reminds me.
[31:39] The kid from 7 years ago was in this town.
[31:42] I'm so glad to see you. She said she didn't can.
[31:46] Do you believe that? Losing your home to a dragon
[31:48] twice. Poor thing.
[31:50] Yeah. Thanks to everyone.
[31:54] Thanks to her, everyone thinks I'm a model swordsman.
[31:57] And this time I won't have to ambush and kill anyone.
[32:01] Back then, we didn't even have the acting.
[32:03] We didn't have the acting skill to sell the story on our own.
[32:07] Actually, I don't know who said that.
[32:08] Yeah, I'm not sure either. It could be not either one of
[32:11] them. That line fits both.
[32:12] It must have been as I look at the next page, it's D, it's Dr.
[32:16] Yeah, but he hits us with a Yeah.
[32:19] Burden them all. Burden them to ash as the people
[32:23] are, as we're fully in the background now in the flashback,
[32:26] see, with the black borders. Yeah.
[32:28] So yeah, if you look all the whole page black.
[32:30] Yeah, that's interesting. I didn't know that.
[32:32] Yeah, that's how you tell a flashback it's not always
[32:34] needed. Obviously.
[32:35] I could look at this me like it's a flashback.
[32:36] Yeah, clearly. But we go to the townspeople.
[32:39] It's a dragon. Everyone wake up and run.
[32:42] Why is a dragon here? Damn it.
[32:44] The town's in danger. How can this be?
[32:47] The forest, the whole mountains of flame.
[32:50] We're surrounded by hills on all sides.
[32:52] There's no escape. Nowhere to go.
[32:54] And that dragon looks fucking cool, though.
[32:56] Yeah, it does. That shit looks awesome.
[32:58] That's fine. You won't be going anywhere.
[33:00] We need this whole incident to wind up as a mystery, as a
[33:05] fucking What's his name again? Sharano.
[33:08] Sharano. I like that we've both forgotten
[33:09] his name. He's just not a good guy.
[33:11] No, he's got a bloody ass sword. He's licking his lip, licking
[33:16] maniacal of shit. We see like the heat flares of
[33:20] the town dragon and people just now dead everywhere as Dr. is
[33:26] collecting all the gold and jewels and Sharano's standing
[33:29] there over all the corpses and some woman comes out, maybe a
[33:33] child I can't really tell. Someone help.
[33:36] Daddy and mommy are trapped under the house please help
[33:39] them. And she thuds to the ground.
[33:42] Gerano just quietly looks and then picks her up and walks over
[33:46] to the people. And we find the parents who are
[33:49] Flair. You called for help.
[33:51] Thank you. Can you help me out?
[33:53] And Sharano just stabs him right in the face.
[33:56] That's fucked up. That's like, that's not even
[33:59] going to like kill him. Like kind of quickly, like like
[34:02] he's going to suffer. That was unnecessary.
[34:04] Fuck you. Like, at least make it like
[34:07] quick. He's already trapped under a
[34:08] house. Yeah, that's terrible.
[34:12] Then Sharano, you says you take me in the you take the treasure
[34:16] and leave without me. Dr. What?
[34:18] We destroyed a town and made off with a ton of wealth.
[34:22] The only thing that's left is a little fame to go with it as he
[34:25] holds young flair up, clearly indicating that she's going to
[34:31] make him famous. And we go back to present day
[34:34] with a if that girl ever finds out, she's going to kill
[34:38] herself. The man she believed in was
[34:40] actually the guy who destroyed her town and killed her dad.
[34:44] Yeah. And we get another kind of
[34:47] partial flashback and flare here with a Are you awake?
[34:52] Oh, where's Mommy and daddy? I'm sorry I failed to save them,
[34:56] Forgive me. And then we go back to Flair in
[34:59] the present day now. So that's the truth behind what
[35:02] happened. I can't believe I called you a
[35:05] murderer as Ryuma just listens quietly and he responds,
[35:10] finally. You don't actually seem that
[35:11] depressed. If I moped about it, they'd just
[35:14] laugh at me. How I hate that man now.
[35:17] Also, if I were going to whine about it, I'd have killed myself
[35:20] long ago. You should probably escape now.
[35:23] Remember what they said. The Dragon's on its way and
[35:26] Ryuma with a huh. And we get another slight scene
[35:29] change as Flair goes inside and Ryuma hits a huh.
[35:34] Doesn't seem like she's going anywhere as Flair finally begins
[35:38] to cry and breaks down and lets out a loud a loud wah.
[35:43] I I don't even want to try that one.
[35:45] Yeah that's a long one that's over like 6 panels.
[35:48] Oh my God. But it's also drowned out in the
[35:50] middle of one of the panels by Serrano and Dr. laughing
[35:53] maniacally and Ryuma listening to her.
[35:56] Her cries, spins and dashes off with a dut dut dut jumping
[36:02] across buildings, flopping and twisting on the ground.
[36:06] You know, a fucking like kind of superhero landing does like a
[36:09] nice roll with it and then keeps running as we hear her cries.
[36:14] Are they good? Yeah.
[36:15] My cats interrupt us. Who was it?
[36:19] I'm. Not sure but I think Carrot
[36:22] attacked Pepper and then Pepper retaliated and not carried
[36:26] walked away. OK, that's good that she walked
[36:28] away. As long as they don't break out,
[36:29] no full fight. Yeah, happens occasionally, but
[36:32] that's, you know, siblings. That's what the spray bottle's
[36:34] for. Yeah, The only time I like to
[36:36] use this spray bottle, I really, You really shouldn't use this
[36:38] spray bottle on them. It's kind of fucking mean.
[36:40] Yeah, but when they fight, I'm like, I'm not putting my hand in
[36:43] there. I'm not I.
[36:44] Don't know, no way. But anyway, we continue on as
[36:47] Real must continue sprinting, and we cut back over to Sharano.
[36:52] Seems like the main event has finally arrived, but we haven't
[36:56] finished looting the town of all of its valuables and the
[37:00] townspeople watching from a cliffside.
[37:02] Here it comes. We just have to hope against
[37:06] hope that Sharano wins. What?
[37:08] That makes no sense. Sorry that one, I could not read
[37:13] that. That one's a little confusing.
[37:15] Yeah, interesting way to phrase that.
[37:19] And I'll say. Yeah, why did this have to
[37:21] happen to our town? And some guy smashing the
[37:24] ground, It's all that samurai's fault.
[37:26] He just had to show up out of nowhere and ruin everything.
[37:29] And we got the bartender just staring quietly again, because
[37:32] the bartender's also the only guy who I think's had a fucking
[37:34] conversation with Ryuma. Yeah, but they say let's put our
[37:40] faith in Serrano for now. And Ryuma comes in with a zush
[37:45] as he slides in front of Serrano and Dr. and they're just like
[37:50] shocked that he's even here. And Ryuma with with a doom.
[37:57] I should have known that any man who strikes another scabbard
[38:00] would prove that he has no heart of a great warrior to begin
[38:03] with. And both of them laugh with a
[38:06] wah ha ha ha. Oh, so you figured us out.
[38:09] I didn't expect anyone to still be in this town.
[38:12] That's right, genius boy, you sure nailed us.
[38:15] We're the bad guys. And no, we're not going to stand
[38:19] up and fight for the sake of the world or the innocent at all.
[38:23] And Reema thinking in fact or don't.
[38:26] This is still Dr. talking. I think in fact, we're the ones
[38:30] who caused the dragon attack seven years ago.
[38:33] We also slaughtered all of my subordinates. 10 Oh, this is
[38:36] Toronto. Toronto.
[38:37] So it's kind of hard to follow. This is something I think Otis
[38:40] improved with with time is his like attaching who's talking to
[38:44] with the bubbles. Yeah, sometimes it's confusing
[38:46] and they're actually, no, there are times actually in modern One
[38:49] Piece where it's still. No confusing.
[38:50] Yeah. That's hard to do with like the
[38:52] flashbacks too, because you don't really know.
[38:54] Yeah. Because it, well, it's in
[38:55] someone's mind. It's not really.
[38:57] Yeah, yeah. Happening.
[38:58] So Sharano, though, says we also slaughtered all of my
[39:01] subordinates 10 years ago so that dragon horn could be ours.
[39:06] And Ryuma, just thinking about all the townspeople who really
[39:09] respect Sharano. You know, the bartender,
[39:12] Sharano's a noble swordsman. The townspeople, Hooray.
[39:16] Sharano's going to slay the dragon for us.
[39:18] As Sharano lunges at Ryuma. It's good to be bad.
[39:23] There's so much money in it. You're going to die now and take
[39:26] the fall for us. Yeah, as Ryuma has one last
[39:31] thought to flare and how she said Sharana's going to die for
[39:35] the town's sake and Ryuma looking pissed as all hell.
[39:38] Yeah, it does. Vile scum.
[39:41] I like actually that panel A lot because like, look at Flare on
[39:43] the side of it crying. Yeah, that's a really cool way
[39:46] to blend that shit. And our next scene is with a
[39:50] flash. Sharano falls to the ground dead
[39:55] as Ryuma's resheathing his sword.
[39:58] She's a badass. He is a badass.
[40:01] That's your anime ass moment right there.
[40:03] Yeah that's fucking cool. Flash step.
[40:07] Dr. is absolutely shocked. Yeah, so Dr. Shocked as Ryuma
[40:12] just stares back at him. I'd be, I'd just shit myself if
[40:15] he looked at me. I'd be like, I, I apologize for
[40:19] real, but no way this can't be happening.
[40:25] How did Sharano lose? How?
[40:27] I mean, he's Sharano. Sharano, the master swordsman.
[40:30] How could he have lost? What did you do to him?
[40:33] As we had another doom and now we get our first view of the sky
[40:37] as the dragon is coming. Approaching.
[40:40] Yep. Wait a second.
[40:41] Don't move. The Dragon's horn I smashed
[40:43] earlier was a fake. I have the real one right here.
[40:46] There's still a bit of time, but just having this horn doesn't
[40:50] mean any old person can control a dragon.
[40:52] It took me 3 years to master using the horn.
[40:55] See what I mean? I'm the only one who can stop
[40:57] the dragon if you kill me. This town can't be and holy
[41:01] shit, Rhema being the badass he is, just a little Ting as he
[41:05] pops his sword out of the sheath.
[41:07] So I don't live here and we just cut over to the dragon flying
[41:11] through the sky. Lot of imposing shots of it, the
[41:15] townspeople reacting. It's absolutely huge.
[41:19] Even Chirono can't stop that thing as flares on top of the
[41:22] bar. I choose death.
[41:25] I'll go down with this town as we cut over to Serrano and Dr.
[41:31] both dead on the ground. So he showed no mercy to deal.
[41:34] With how he killed them, they deserve it though.
[41:36] Yeah, they were scum fucking it, ruining entire people's lives
[41:40] for their shit. Fuck them, yeah.
[41:41] As she looks up, she sees Ryuma jumping up and it's him, and
[41:47] Ryuma was a loud yeah jumps up and with another doom, cuts off
[41:55] the Dragon's head in a single stroke because God this man is
[41:59] fucking cool. He's a badass.
[42:01] Dude, he's so fucking cool here. If you want to see it on the the
[42:05] big screen, I. Had to play better.
[42:07] Yeah, it helps the fucking looks sick.
[42:09] Dude, yeah, it does. That's Claire, not Claire.
[42:14] Flair sheds more tears. We see him fall to the ground
[42:19] with a as he really didn't plan his his landing.
[42:24] Yeah, no, he does. He was locked in for the strike.
[42:28] And now that the Dragon's dead, we cut.
[42:30] He's got a bag of maybe food or something attached to his sword.
[42:35] Yep. That's one stupidly large
[42:37] lizard. What did it eat to get that big?
[42:39] And he turns around and sees Flair.
[42:43] It's you. You didn't run away?
[42:45] No, I was just taking shelter, you stayed too.
[42:49] No more thinking about dying okay?
[42:51] As he walks past Flair. From what I hear, death ain't
[42:54] fun and she seems shocked by this news.
[42:57] I don't know why this never occurred to her and she stops
[43:03] him with a You're so strong and yet I've never heard the name
[43:07] Ryuma before. You fought selflessly to save
[43:09] this town and could easily have died as he kind of just
[43:12] continues to slowly stroll away and he turns.
[43:16] The true value of battle isn't the feats you achieve or the
[43:19] spoils you gain. It's in what you protect.
[43:22] Plus I fought twice, so now you owe me one.
[43:26] I'll be back for another meal sometime, Don't you forget it.
[43:30] As he leaves, the rest of the town shows back up.
[43:33] You know they're all chattering. And I can't believe that Weird
[43:37] Guy and Sharano were working together as they learned that
[43:40] Sharano and Dr. were cohorts in their evil plans.
[43:44] Sharano was lying to us the entire time.
[43:47] And that samurai really did this as he just kind of left the
[43:51] dragon corpse. Just fucking in the centre of
[43:54] the town. Like is it on top of the bar?
[43:57] Like where is it? That's fucked up.
[43:59] Like what? Bro?
[43:59] I work here. I live here.
[44:02] And we cut back to the bartender who was kind of the one guy who
[44:05] didn't really seem to immediately hate Ryuma.
[44:08] Now I remember Ryuma de King and Flair.
[44:13] It's what everyone he saves calls him, but I don't think he
[44:16] knows King. Yeah, of all the swordsmen in
[44:20] the world, he has the biggest heart of a great warrior.
[44:24] As he's slowly walking away from the town, he hits a I'm getting
[44:29] hungry again. Should I go back some other
[44:32] time? The end.
[44:34] That's pretty good, dude. Monsters is really good,
[44:37] actually. Yeah, it is one of those.
[44:39] I'm like damn he probably could have written the whole story
[44:41] following this dude. Yeah, probably.
[44:44] Like rumors that he's him. Just the fact that other people
[44:49] call him the king means that he has some pretty epic stories.
[44:52] Oh yeah, that could be told. No, he's a he's kind of a
[44:55] badass. But what do you think of the
[44:57] whole thing now that you've read it and you've also seen it on
[45:00] the Netflix one? Yeah.
[45:02] I think it's pretty cool. I like, I don't know.
[45:04] I like this one more. I'm not sure why.
[45:07] Like reading it? Yeah, I think I just like
[45:08] reading it. I feel like reading, it's nice
[45:11] because you can. It's the reason I honestly
[45:13] advocate for reading manga instead of watching anime
[45:15] anyway. Yeah, is you can take it at your
[45:17] own pace. Yeah.
[45:18] Like we can react like when there's one of those long dooms,
[45:22] like when he cuts the dragon set off.
[45:23] You can admire this panel for as long as you want.
[45:27] Yeah. While if you're watching that in
[45:29] the anime, it happens and then it's over.
[45:31] Yeah. You can't sit there and be like,
[45:33] what? Damn, That's.
[45:35] That's cool. Yeah.
[45:37] Or the OR the inverse where like you're sad with flair.
[45:40] You're like damn bro I feel for her.
[45:42] Like, you can't really sit there and feel for her for 10 minutes.
[45:46] If you want you, you gotta move on because you're on the next
[45:49] scene, Yeah. It just moves too fast.
[45:51] Uh huh. But like, yeah, like what?
[45:53] Like other than that, what do you, what do you think?
[45:55] Like Riyuma, the coolest motherfucker in this shit.
[45:59] Certainly he, I don't know, he's kind of, I want to know where
[46:03] he's coming from in the beginning because he said he was
[46:06] hungry and he hadn't eaten for like 5 days.
[46:08] He's just a wanderer. He's just a wondering swordsman.
[46:10] Just. Wander.
[46:11] But like that, that was a thing in like Japanese, like kind of
[46:14] history. Yeah, it was like that there.
[46:17] There were like wandering samurai were a thing like, I
[46:21] guess not just Japanese. I guess it's just a thing that
[46:23] happens occasionally. A lot of people become like more
[46:25] mercenary esque, they just travel around for a quick buck
[46:29] and move on and have their adventures.
[46:33] Yeah. So I assume he's like that.
[46:35] This town also isn't very friendly.
[46:37] Outside of the bartender, like he's kind of the only one who
[46:39] was like you're fine bro even. When he was talking to Flair she
[46:42] just fucking left. She's she's rude.
[46:45] She is rude. She's kind of rude.
[46:46] She dips. She's like Sherano, I love you.
[46:49] Yeah, well, now she's going to have a new one.
[46:51] She's going to do that for fucking Rio.
[46:53] Almost. Certainly is getting his wish.
[46:57] I'll be back for more food. Yes, Sir.
[47:01] I think the the gold straw hat candidate goes unsaid.
[47:06] It's we don't even need like it's come on.
[47:08] Yeah, it's obvious. The dragon.
[47:10] Exactly like who else? Who else would it be?
[47:14] Honestly I like this panel of the fucking dragon here though.
[47:17] Yeah, that one. That one's cool.
[47:18] Yeah, like it's fucking page 26 or whatever they have it listed
[47:24] on in the novel form. It's in all black panels, so I
[47:28] actually can't tell you. Yeah, cuz it's in a flashback.
[47:30] But I think that does a really good job of showing how like
[47:33] immensely powerful and terrifying the.
[47:35] Dragon. Yeah.
[47:35] How, how scared these people must have been.
[47:37] Yeah. You like, if you see that shit,
[47:39] you'd be like, we did. Yeah.
[47:41] I accept my thing. Nothing I could do.
[47:43] Yeah. But then like, it's just like, I
[47:45] like. Also page 28, where the Dragon's
[47:47] just kind of chilling in the background.
[47:49] Yeah, well, how the how's their looting?
[47:51] Yeah, he's just chilling. I burn everything down.
[47:54] I'm just taking a break. Yeah, lunch, lunch break.
[47:56] Yeah, I'm working as nine to five.
[47:59] His teeth are. Terrifying.
[48:01] Dude, there's no way that's useful.
[48:04] Yeah, no, I'm surprised he can even like, close his mouth.
[48:06] But again, like Saber toothed tigers had teeth like that.
[48:08] So yeah, maybe they are useful somehow.
[48:10] Maybe I just don't know enough about animals to say that it's
[48:13] not. I also think praying mantis have
[48:15] something like that, don't they? Do they?
[48:16] I think so. I thought they had like pincers.
[48:19] Well, they have pincers, but they also they have a mouth.
[48:21] I know, maybe I'm not, maybe I'm thinking the wrong bug.
[48:23] They do have mouth though, praying mantis.
[48:25] But yeah, there there are certainly bugs that I think have
[48:27] kind of teeth like that. Interesting.
[48:29] But I have no idea what they're for.
[48:31] I really don't. Yeah, I don't.
[48:32] Even though I'm a Saber toothed tiger.
[48:33] I'm like that just feels like it would be in the way.
[48:35] Yeah, especially when you're like, because how do you choose
[48:38] stuff? Because you know how cows kind
[48:40] of chew like like I don't know how to do it in audio medium,
[48:44] like kind of diagonally. Yeah, yeah.
[48:47] Not every animal chews like that, but to a certain degree
[48:50] you're kind of moving your mouth side to side when you chew.
[48:54] Like looking through the rest of this, like Sherano, like the
[48:57] reveal that he's a scumbag is just funny.
[49:00] Like that face is just so funny. The.
[49:04] One that Sherano makes, yeah, when he's laughing.
[49:07] He's a fucking maniacal maniac. Yeah, he is.
[49:10] He's evil. But there's an even better one
[49:12] actually, a couple of pages later.
[49:13] Well, on fucking 31, which is, I wish I could tell you on yours,
[49:18] but I don't know. Yeah, no, I I understand.
[49:21] Yeah, he where he's just hitting that yeah ha ha ha with a
[49:24] fucking Dr. as she's crying her eyes out.
[49:26] Yeah. He looks like a fucking madman,
[49:29] like how could you trust this guy?
[49:30] He does. He does play it off well.
[49:32] Though Oh he like at the beginning he does look cool to
[49:34] shit. Yeah, he plays it like on the
[49:36] suave sexy hero swordsman. Yeah, you got the mustache, you
[49:42] got the fit the sword. But then you get your first
[49:45] little hint that he's not actually all that when he
[49:46] fucking bumps scabbards. Dude, stop betting her you're.
[49:49] Sitting on me. Relax.
[49:54] She was pissed at you. She went straight for that hand.
[49:57] No. Yeah, see, like Carrie's here to
[49:59] fuck you up just now you're scared.
[50:02] Carrot is much bigger and stronger to be fair.
[50:04] See, I'll pick carrier. So we used to put weights in
[50:07] front of the door to stop them from opening them.
[50:10] Carrot just got bigger. It's.
[50:12] Like I can work out now you guys, you guys are making me
[50:15] stronger. So we stopped doing it to stop
[50:18] making her bigger. She just got bigger.
[50:20] Like legitimately look at her legs.
[50:22] They're fucking huge. Hurts.
[50:23] Swole. I don't know like it.
[50:26] It backfired on this big time. I'm not going to lie, it's very
[50:29] funny. But no, I I enjoy monsters.
[50:33] I do vaguely wish we learned more about this part of the
[50:36] world, because this has been canonized.
[50:38] This it happened a long time ago.
[50:42] I know from one of the spoiler episodes that we see Ryoma's
[50:47] skeleton has a swordsman and is that do we see any other
[50:51] characters from Monster appear? Not that I know.
[50:54] Of no, OK. If they do, they're real sneaky
[50:57] and not important. Yeah, yeah.
[50:58] I kind of wish the bartender did.
[51:00] I think that would be the fun. That would be cool.
[51:02] Don't give a shit about Serrano or Dr. Yeah, now they're dead.
[51:05] Claire, I feel like if she did appear in one Piece, I'd be
[51:08] like, eh, you just kind of. There, yeah, she doesn't really
[51:12] serve a purpose. Yeah, but I don't know, I really
[51:13] like the bartender. The bartender is pretty cool.
[51:15] He just being a dude, just like I'm just working, talking to
[51:19] people, having a good time, yeah.
[51:21] And he was knowledgeable. Yeah, the only one who was like,
[51:24] that's fucking Ruma, the king. Yeah, like only one to realize
[51:29] it. Oh shit, though.
[51:31] Also, that statue you pointed out, I want to go look back at
[51:33] that. Yeah, I forgot about that.
[51:36] I was like, I made a little mental note.
[51:38] I was like, I kind of want to see that.
[51:39] Like, is that actually like a fucking statue of Zorro?
[51:42] Like did he it? Kind of looks like him.
[51:44] It kind of does. That is weird that like if you
[51:47] combine that with Ryuma's design I think you get Zorro do.
[51:52] That make sense? Yeah, like because the the
[51:54] haircut from the statue is more Zorro's haircut.
[51:57] Yeah, I feel like the mouth is a little more Zorro's because he
[52:02] has more of a like a a minute mouth compared to Ryuma.
[52:05] Ryuma seems to have a real large.
[52:07] Yeah, it does. Yeah, but then the rest of the
[52:10] features, I feel like you keep Ryumas for the most part.
[52:12] That's pretty cool. That could be like a little
[52:14] Easter egg. Yeah, maybe.
[52:15] I don't know. If someone's noticed this and
[52:17] fucking asked Odo let us know because that's that I, I never
[52:20] noticed that. That was a cool call out dude,
[52:22] but anything else you want to say about it?
[52:24] I. Think we got most of it.
[52:26] The dragon is terrifying. The Dragon's scary, meant to be
[52:30] good job. Yeah, he looks scary.
[52:33] Other than that. Yeah, so I guess with that, we
[52:35] already basically agreed on our golden straw head, I think.
[52:38] Yeah, like, it's Ryuma. He's just too.
[52:41] He's too fucking cool, dude. Yeah, like it's one of those
[52:45] things when when we do get to him in the anime, we're going to
[52:48] have some issues because I'm going to be like every week, I'm
[52:50] going to agree. I'll.
[52:51] Probably agree with you. Like he's going to just rack up
[52:55] like seven in a row. Yeah, I will probably agree with
[52:58] you, Dylan. We're sorry.
[53:00] You don't. You don't get a say in Ryan was
[53:02] going in the straw hat. He's just going to fucking fly
[53:04] it. He's so cool.
[53:06] And so we did do the rest of the games too with Dylan.
[53:09] I did. I mean, OK, obviously no bounty
[53:12] guesses, no one had devil fruit. Anyone worthy of Mr. 3.
[53:18] Serrano, I think. I think Serrano, honestly.
[53:20] Serrano is up there. Serrano is up there.
[53:23] But is Dr. Worse? No, I was going to say Dr., but
[53:26] the thing that puts Sharano over the edge is when he killed
[53:29] Flair's dad. Dude, that's pretty brutal.
[53:32] Yeah, see, but then I'm like, at least he actually was kind of a
[53:35] cool swordsman. Sure, he got smoked by the
[53:38] greatest swordsman. Yeah, But Dr. is just kind of a
[53:41] sniveling bastard. Yeah, he doesn't actually have
[53:44] any skills. True, he's even below Sharano.
[53:46] Yeah, it's like they're both worthy of it.
[53:49] It just depends on which one we want to give it to.
[53:51] Well, if. We give it to both.
[53:53] They're both heinous. Okay, they get to share 1 double
[53:56] Mr. Three award Sherano and where's the hand symbol?
[54:01] There it is D dot R .1. So we got a missed three award.
[54:06] We did not get a Mr. Three award during Wanted.
[54:08] Really, nobody was heinous. That's good.
[54:11] I think you'd like Ghost Joe, actually.
[54:13] You sound that's a funny name. He sounds cool.
[54:15] You should read Wanted. I think you'd actually like that
[54:17] one. It's very it's very much a
[54:18] Western. OK, like like legitimately the
[54:21] town. We compared it to Tombstone.
[54:23] Oh. OK, yeah, I like Tombstone.
[54:25] Yeah, I knew you did. So that's what we were comparing
[54:28] it to, so I think you'd like it. That's chapter 1 so you can read
[54:31] that like all night without having to pay for shit.
[54:34] Yeah, I don't like to read for free.
[54:35] Yeah. But Tajin, what happens next
[54:38] time on monsters? On monsters.
[54:43] So Rayuma is on his way again. I don't know who Ghost Joe is,
[54:48] but maybe they're going to meet up and they're going to be boys.
[54:52] Because you make sound. You make Ghost Joe sound cool,
[54:56] and Rayuma's cool. So they're going to.
[54:57] Be boys, I like ghost Joe. I convinced Dylan to vote for
[55:00] Ghost Joe. Oh.
[55:01] Shit. OK, maybe not.
[55:03] They might. Dylan's first vote was not Ghost
[55:05] Joe. But Dylan was probably voting
[55:07] for like the most cowboy motherfucker there that.
[55:09] 'D be the main guy. OK, yeah, so Dylan was
[55:12] definitely just voting for whoever the most cowboy guy.
[55:13] Was We love you Dylan, but your obsession with Cowboys sometimes
[55:17] scares us. Yeah, and Rhyma is going to slay
[55:22] some more shit. He might maybe save another
[55:24] town, or it might be just chilling he's just making his
[55:28] way towards. I think he's also going to die
[55:29] by starvation. Oh, you know what?
[55:31] That could possibly he has some food.
[55:33] That seems right though. Yeah, he has some food, but he
[55:36] also, he might make quick work of it.
[55:39] But yeah, that's my, that's my prediction.
[55:41] Fuck yeah. You'll have to find out if
[55:42] that's true in like episode 300 and 60.
[55:47] Of One Piece, yeah. OK, that's that.
[55:50] Like you'll maybe around there. You'll learn about Ryuma.
[55:52] OK, You're gonna learn a lot. Yeah.
[55:55] And obviously, yeah, I'll learn. Something Maybe they'll tell us
[55:57] how we died. Probably I.
[55:59] Don't remember if they do so if they do it'll be news to me too.
[56:02] OK. Yeah, but I was gonna say Dylan
[56:05] take us out, but he's not here, so I'll take us out.
[56:07] So you can find Tajin at Tajin on chess.com.
[56:11] Tajin with three JS. You find me on blue sky at King
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[57:08] Is our sister show. Just two dudes who like to hang
[57:12] out, talk about random things. I hate their most recent
[57:15] episode. Really.
[57:16] Did you see what it was titled? Yes, their most recent episode
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[57:24] So like I said, they really do just talk about anything.
[57:27] But go ahead and check them out. They're a good listen.
[57:29] Like to listen to them whenever I'm, you know, just doing daily
[57:33] things. Careful listening to that one in
[57:34] public. Oh yeah, true be I haven't
[57:36] listened to that one yet, but based on the title that might
[57:39] have a that should have a disclaimer warning on it.
[57:43] Don't listen with the door open. Yeah, don't listen like Cajun's
[57:45] going to watch K Joe with this door open.
[57:48] Yeah, have to make sure you have headphones on or something.
[57:53] As always, a big thank you to our patrons in the Helm Meppo
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[58:00] crew member who's part of the Wax Wax Crew.
[58:03] We will see you on the next part of our journey.
[58:05] As I will not have Tajin or Dylan, I will be joined by some
[58:09] special guests for a spoiler guest.
[58:12] Nice. Yeah, you don't get to be a part
[58:13] of that. No spoilers for you.
[58:14] Not for me, no. No, you're gonna get to listen
[58:16] to that episode. Yeah, I know.
[58:18] Sucker. All right, Bye.
[58:20] Bye. Lighters.
[58:36] I can't believe you've never seen Majin Boo, bro.
[58:38] Yeah. Have you seen those videos of
[58:40] the people who are like, they asked, like, pick one anime
[58:43] character who you could beat in a fight.
[58:44] You know, if I had that question, who the fuck would I
[58:46] pick? It was like an anime.
[58:47] I'd pick Yotsuba. I'd pick a Moomin rider you.
[58:51] Don't want to fight the guy who's literally a butt?
[58:53] No, not not the butt fighting anime.
[58:56] That's K Joe. You ever seen that?
[58:58] No, but I have heard of it. Weirdly enough, if it wasn't
[59:01] about fighting with tits and ass, I'm like, it actually is
[59:03] kind of good. Like I'm like, I get into the
[59:06] fights. I'm like, damn, she she can win.
[59:09] She's like she's gonna overcome her shit.
[59:11] Like I'm cheering her on, OK? Like it's a legit sports anime.
[59:15] I'm gonna have to watch. That and then it's like it's an
[59:17] ass fight though. I'm like fuck, don't watch it
[59:19] with your family. Oh yeah, no.
[59:22] Don't do it. Whatever you do, I'm locking the
[59:24] door. I'm watching that.
[59:27] How can I tie that into one piece?
[59:29] Ziglurg lurk, Ziglurg lurk, ziglurk blurk, Berg gur chatter.

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