Mine Name Is Momonosuke, That It Is!

In the basement of C-Block, inside the place labeled "Trash Can," Luffy finds himself facing the small dragon that has been speaking from the darkness. He stares at it and asks, "MOMONOSUKE?" The dragon answers with stiff pride, "YES, THAT I AM!!" Luffy tries to remember the name: "I heard that name somewhere. Where was it?" Momonosuke quickly denies any connection, saying, "I know not. That must have been someone else, that it must. But nevermind that, thou...!!" Before he can finish, Luffy's hunger takes over. His mouth opens, drool spills out, and his stomach growls as he looks at the dragon less like a person and more like food. Momonosuke sees the danger immediately and shouts, "STOP THINE SALIVATING!!" The comedy is direct, but the information is important: the missing boy Momonosuke is alive, transformed, and trapped with Luffy below the lab.

Momonosuke coils in the air and insists that he is not a meal. He cries, "I AM NO FOODSTUFF, THAT I AM NOT!! TRY TO EAT ME AND I MAY RETURN THE FAVOR!! PREPARE THINESELF!!" The narration formally introduces him as "Momonosuke," with a note explaining that the word "dragon" is written as "ryuu" using the kanji for an eastern dragon. Luffy, still confused by the voice and the form in front of him, wonders aloud, "Is he talking with farts?" Then he asks, "Hmm? Is that 'Momonosuke' stuck somewhere around here." Momonosuke explodes at the insult and misunderstanding: "Of what nonsense dost thou speak!! I am no eel!!" The page turns Momonosuke's reveal into a shouting match, but it also establishes the central problem clearly. Luffy has met the boy Kin'emon is searching for, yet Momonosuke is in a dragon body and cannot make Luffy understand him cleanly.

Luffy notices that Momonosuke sounds hungry too and introduces himself in the only way he considers proper: "I'M LUFFY!! THE MAN WHO'LL BECOME KING OF THE PIRATES!!" Momonosuke is startled by the word pirate. He tries to maintain his dignity, asking, "But who art thou, and why hast thou come here..." and then snapping, "Do not speak so foolishly... A samurai does not starve after a mere ten days... To suggest that I would hunger haa... haa..." Luffy repeats the number in shock: "Ten days!?" Momonosuke's body betrays him as he pants, drools, and imagines food, but his pride stays intact. He says of pirates, "Pirates are men of great girth, full of rage and untold strength," turning Luffy into an enemy in his mind before knowing him. Luffy, unimpressed, says, "Whatever you say, eel. Now how do we..." Momonosuke cuts him off again: "I am Momonosuke, that I am!!" The exchange shows both his samurai pride and his fear of pirates, while Luffy keeps trying to move the conversation toward escape.

Momonosuke begins explaining how little he understands about the laboratory. He says, "That place holds sickly children is all I know. I know of neither the nature of this island nor of what has befallen me." His memory returns to the beginning: "As fate would have it this began when I stowed away aboard a certain ship." In the flashback, the children in the facility try to be kind to him. They offer food and ask, "Want some food? Don't you want to eat?" Momonosuke refuses with stubborn formality: "A samurai dost not accept alms from strangers!!" Yet the longer he stays, the more exhausted and hungry he becomes. Another child later brings food and says, "I've got your food here." Another tries to comfort him: "Why doncha eat something? We've all been separated from our parents, so we're in this together..." Momonosuke cannot bear the pity or the imprisonment, and he thinks, "Can not one of thee understand my wishes!" The page makes his situation more tragic: he is not merely lost, but a proud child trapped among other abducted children, too ashamed and frightened to accept help.

The flashback shifts to the children's arrival under Caesar. Caesar welcomes them with false warmth, declaring, "I am Master Caesar! Please, come on in!! From now on, you can all play here! Shurororororo." The children treat Momonosuke like another newcomer. One asks, "What's your name?" but he shouts, "I HAVE NO NAME!!" They keep trying to share sweets: "Here you go." "We've got sweets." Momonosuke refuses again, "I need no such thing!!" but hunger and temptation begin to break through, especially when he notices, "And candy..." Later, he slips away. Guards realize something is wrong and ask, "Hey, did one of those brats run away...!?" Another answers, "Yeah, but we're not missing anyone, according to the ship's registry. Weird." Because Momonosuke was a stowaway, the staff do not even know to count him. That accident gives him the chance to move through the facility unseen, though he is panting, weak, and still searching for a way out.

Momonosuke wanders into a forbidden room and rummages through the clutter while still starving. The sounds of "GULP" and "MUNCH" make it clear that his pride has finally lost to hunger. A child catches him and calls out, "HEY, YOU!" The child recognizes him: "So you're Momonosuke-kun, huh. Isn't this the 'secret room' that we're not supposed to go in?" Momonosuke tries to push the child away with cold words: "...Thou art a nuisance. Do not concern thineself with me...!!" Then he states his real purpose: "I seek the exit... to leave this place. For there is something I must do." He is still acting like a samurai on a mission, but the room around him is dangerous and unknown. By entering the secret room, he steps directly into the hidden part of Punk Hazard's experiments, the place the children were never supposed to see.

The child tries to make Momonosuke understand why everyone stays together. The child says, "It's tough... But all us kids are in the same boat here. We all want to see our mommies and daddies, even just one day sooner. We've all gathered here from different islands in order to be cured... so everyone feels the same way." Momonosuke listens silently as the child continues, "I've also got a bunch of things I want to do when I get home!! But we all have fun in the biscuit room!" The child adds that there, "You can forget about your troubles and you really have to eat..." Before the conversation can continue, panic breaks in from outside: "The gate to the 'secret room' is open!!" and "This is bad! Someone's here!! Let's go, Momonosuke-kun!!" Guards approach and ask, "Is someone in there?" The child is offering fellowship, but the facility's rules close around them immediately. Momonosuke's escape attempt has exposed them both to the secret room's danger.

Momonosuke and the child try to flee, but something in the secret room takes effect before they can simply leave. The child cries out, "UH... UHAH!!" Someone reacts, "WHAT THE!?" Then the horror spreads across the room as Momonosuke's body begins changing. The panels catch the shock in fragments: "WHAT...!?" "AAAHHHH..." "EH!?" The transformation is not graceful or controlled; it is sudden, frightening, and impossible for the witnesses to understand. By the time the guards and child look at him, the question is no longer whether a boy escaped. Someone can only stammer, "...? D...DRAGON...?" while another voice cries, "WHAT'S GOING ON!!?" Momonosuke has become a dragon in front of them, and the flashback reaches the moment that explains the body Luffy is now seeing in the trash chute.

The guards discover what caused the change. One says, "Take a look. It was definitely here. The 'artificial devil fruit' that Vegapunk made. I heard it was a failure, but..." Momonosuke, now in dragon form, panics and flees while the flashback explains the origin of his transformation: he ate Vegapunk's artificial Devil Fruit. Back in the present, Momonosuke summarizes, "In short, I truly am human." Luffy finally understands the mechanism and says, "Ah, so it was a Devil Fruit...!! You must be an eel man." He tells him, "So just go ahead and turn back into a human." Momonosuke cannot do it on command. Luffy admits, "Well, I'm no zoan, so I don't know... But man, is it a long way up to the top. I can't even see the hole I fell through." The page connects several plot pieces at once: Vegapunk's failed artificial fruit, Momonosuke's dragon body, and the practical problem that Luffy and Momonosuke are still trapped far below the exit.

Momonosuke says that he wants to escape for the children's sake: "I also wish to escape. So that I may tell the children!! I changed to overhear something from that Caesar fellow...!!" Luffy listens as Momonosuke reveals what he heard. The children may think Caesar is a doctor, but Momonosuke says, "in truth he is a scoundrel who intends to see them all dead." The memory shows Caesar laughing over his experiment: "Shurorororo...!! We've got another bunch of good, obedient brats this time." He boasts, "And the gigantification of the others is proceeding nicely..." but then explains the lethal truth: "But in this experiment, there's a limit to how much of the drugs I can administer. Their bodies won't be able to take it." Caesar dismisses the deaths as acceptable losses: "It's the very nature of experiments to have a few unavoidable victims...!! I expect that in five years from now not one will be left alive!! Shurororo! I'll have to get a new bunch." The page turns Caesar's kindness into a mask. The children are not patients to him; they are disposable test subjects.

Luffy's expression hardens when he hears the truth about Caesar. He says only, "CAESAR..." but the anger is enough. Momonosuke explains that he meant to hide only long enough to tell the children: "I only thought to hide myself here while en route to inform them, but..." Luffy cuts through the uncertainty with a decision: "Alright, Momo!! I'm getting out of here, and you're coming with me!!" Momonosuke asks, "Eh... But how..." Luffy answers, "I'll climb the wall, so grab ahold of me!!" Momonosuke, still wary of pirates, begins to hesitate: "That being the case, I will leave the matter to them. Surely you are no pir..." His sentence fades as hunger and exhaustion overwhelm him. Luffy notices the collapse at once: "Hey get ahold of yourself!! What wrong? Are you dying of hunger?!" The rescue plan is set, but Momonosuke's body is failing after ten days without proper food.

Momonosuke's dragon face suddenly changes, becoming huge, fierce, and almost mask-like above Luffy. Luffy yells, "GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF...!!" while Momonosuke lets out a strange cry, "UHAHHHH!!!!" For a moment the hunger, fear, and dragon instinct seem to overtake him. Then the impossible happens: clouds gather around Momonosuke's body, and he lifts into the air with Luffy clinging to him. Luffy reacts with delight, "Ooh," then Momonosuke realizes what is happening and shouts, "EH!?" The two rocket upward through the shaft as Luffy calls out, "WE'RE FLYING!!" and Momonosuke screams, "WAAHHHHHHH!!!" It is not a controlled escape. It is a wild burst of flight, driven by Momonosuke's dragon form and panic, but it gives them exactly what they need: a way out of the basement.

The chapter cuts back to the rest of the laboratory. In B-Block, second floor, interior-examination room passage, Usopp worries about the separated crew: "Will Nami and the others really be alright without me, back there!?" Then he reassures himself, "Well, I guess as long as Zoro's there..." Kin'emon, riding with the search team, calls to Brook, "BROOK, LET US KNOW IF YOU FIND ANY SEASTONE CUFFS!!" Another voice adds, "ROBIN ASKED FOR SOME!!" Brook answers, "YOHOHO! LET'S TAKE A LOOK ON THIS OTHER SIDE OF THIS WALL!!" The narration labels them "Seastone Cuffs and Momonosuke Search Team!!" and names "Usopp, Kin'emon, Brook." The scene then jumps to D-Block, S.A.D. production room, where the massive "SAD" tank dominates the room. Law stands grim and silent as the caption shifts the focus toward the separate battle still unfolding there.

In the S.A.D. production room, the fight is marked as "Law and Smoker vs. Vergo." Vergo drives a brutal strike through the clash, while Law and Smoker are locked in a high-speed battle against him among the machinery. The scene then shifts again to B-Block, approaching the Biscuit Room. Nami, Sanji, Tashigi, and the G-5 Marines are pushing the children forward as the deadly gas closes in. Someone shouts, "THIS WAY, EVERYONE!!" and another orders, "TO THE BISCUIT ROOM!!" The children and Marines run through the corridor while a voice calls, "CUT IT OUT, BRO!! WE'RE RUNNING!!" and another insists, "WE'RE RUNNING!!" Sanji snaps from the side, "DON'T KICK ME!!" The page keeps the pressure high by showing three crises in sequence: Vergo's fight, the search team elsewhere in the lab, and the evacuation toward the Biscuit Room.

The evacuation is chaotic and physical. The G-5 Marines tumble, shove, and stumble while Sanji tries to keep the group moving. One Marine cries, "OOF!!! THERE'S NO NEED!!" while another yells in pain, "YOWCH HHHHHHHHH!!" The narration labels the fight in their path: "Sanji, Tashigi, and G-5 vs. Deadly Gas, 'Shinokuni'." Sanji refuses to let panic slow them down and shouts, "STOP COMPLAINING!! JUST HURRY TO THE BISCUIT ROOM!!" A translator note explains that "Yuki-Onna" means "snow woman" and follows the Devil Fruit naming pattern while also referring to a Japanese monster or spirit. Inside B-Block, third floor, the Biscuit Room, Mocha struggles against the drugged children. She warns, "STOP, EVERYONE!! YOU MUSTN'T EAT THAT CANDY!!" One child cries, "MOCHA!! RHUUUN AWAY!!" Another complains, "COLD! IT'S LIKE A BLIZZARD IN HERE!!" Mocha realizes Monet has followed immediately after Caesar left: "WHAT THE HELL--ENCOUNTERING THE 'SNOW SNOW FRUIT' RIGHT AFTER TAKING OFF MY COAT! DAMN THIS YUKI-ONNA."

The final spread gathers the chapter's crises into one accelerating scene. In the Biscuit Room, the children chase Mocha and shout, "WAIT, MOCHYA!!" "GIVE US THE CANDY!!" and "DON'T HOG IT ALL!!" Mocha tries to break through their frenzy: "NO!! OPEN YOUR EYES, EVERYONE!!" Robin watches and thinks, "IF I CAN SLOW THEM DOWN JUST A BIT...!!" but Monet moves in coldly, saying, "DON'T GET IN MY WAY." Elsewhere in the same chaos, Zoro blocks Monet and tells the others, "OUR ENEMY IS A LOGIA!! LEAVE HER TO ME!!" and "YOU GUYS GO AND TAKE CARE OF THE KIDS!!!" The caption names the duel: "Vs. 'Yuki-Onna' Monet." At the same time, the lab's countdown continues: "TIME REMAINING UNTIL THE DEADLY GAS, SHINOKUNI, FILLS B-BLOCK" and "ABOUT 20 MINUTES!!" On the right half of the spread, the children surge through the snowy Biscuit Room, still screaming for candy, while debris collapses and a voice cries, "ROBIN!!" The page closes with the team roles clear: "Zoro, Nami, Chopper, Robin" must handle the children and Monet while Shinokuni keeps advancing.

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