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One Piece, Chapter 573: The Age Shall Be Called “Whitebeard”

No man is an island, but this man can destroy islands!

You can download chapter 573 here, or read online here.

Summary:
Coverpage – A heavily clothed Carue rides a terrifyingly huge bear through a snow storm!

Marineford begins to collapse from Whitebeard’s unrestrained attack! His crew, still reluctant to leave their captain behind, begins to follow his last order.

The marines focus their attack to stop Whitebeard from destroying the marine’s headquarters. As Garp regained consciousness, he mutters that Whitebeard actually wanted to settle the “age” itself.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Grand Line is aggravated by the fact that Buggy appeared on the visual den den mushi again after it regained consciousness.

As the pirates make their escape, Whitebeard asks Ace who is kneeling before him in gratitude amidst the chaos whether he has been a good father, to which without hesitation, Ace replied: “of course”. This makes Whitebeard give out his distinct Gurara laughter.

Luffy and Ace then begin to escape as well, but Akainu’s mocking of Whitebeard leads to Ace confronting the admiral and he ends up being burnt by Akainu’s magma.

And as the admiral is about to deal a fatal blow to a fatigued Luffy, Ace rushes in between them and is impaled by the “magmatic punch”!

Luffy’s Vivre card of Ace begins to burn away…

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