Chapter 690

SAD
Chapter Info
Volume:	69
Chapter:	690
Japanese Title:	S（エス）A（エー）D（ディー）
Romanized Title:	Esu-Ē-Dī
Viz Title:	S.A.D.
Pages:	19
Release Date:	December 3, 2012
WSJ Issue:	2013 Issue 1
Anime:	Episode 616 (p. 2-19) Episode 921 (p. 1)
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Chapter 690 is titled "SAD".

Cover Page

Caribou's Kehihihihi in the New World Vol. 15 - "When I Woke Up There Was Some Shitty Granny"

Caribou wakes up to see an old lady who has been nursing him back to health.

Short Summary

Following Luffy's punch, Caesar's face has an imprint of a fist on it. Caesar tries again to intimidate Luffy with his connections before attacking him, but Luffy dodges the attack and punches Caesar again. Meanwhile, the rest of the Straw Hats and the G-5 Marines are heading towards Building R to escape Shinokuni. Brook and Kin'emon run the opposite way, as Kin'emon believes that he may have killed his son, who is now a dragon. Usopp enters the secret room of Building R looking for Seastone handcuffs and finds a nest of Caesar's subordinates.

In the SAD production room, Vergo defeats Smoker, but Law manages to regain his heart due to Smoker's diversion. Law tells Doflamingo, who is listening via Den Den Mushi, that he is going to defeat Vergo, but Doflamingo laughs it off. Law then slices Vergo in two, cutting open the lab and the mountain around it in the process. Law then tells Doflamingo that he has destroyed the gears of the New World and that no one can fix it now.

Long Summary

Luffy continues his fight with Caesar Clown after punching him and leaving a deep imprint on his face. Caesar then tries again to flaunt his protection under Doflamingo in order to intimidate Luffy, and immediately attacks Luffy with an attack called Gastille which is recognized by one of the subordinates who states that it is capable of melting steel, but Luffy dodges it and delivers another punch to Caesar's face.

With five minutes left until Shinokuni fills up building B, the rest of the Straw Hats, as well as their allies, are hurrying toward building R, where the escape route off the island is located. Sanji, Nami and Robin as well as the G-5 marines and the now sober children are rushing together towards Building R. Zoro and Tashigi are far behind because of Zoro's bad sense of direction. Only Kin'emon and Brook are going the opposite direction towards the gas because Kin'emon had heard that his son had got turned into a dragon and immediately thought that dragon he slew was his son. Brook tries to stop him but gets dragged along instead. Usopp is the first to arrive in Building R while searching for seastone hand cuffs but ends up in the secret room above the first floor, where the gas trap was prepared.

In the SAD room, Vergo was berating Smoker for using his smoke form against him who is more than capable of handling devil fruit users, and uses his Haki imbued Bamboo stick to injure Smoker, destroying his jitte. However, Smoker was really just distracting Vergo in order to allow Law to regain his heart. With Trafalgar Law's heart back where it belongs, Law is ready to finish his fight. Smoker, who was barely conscious tells Law to finish it quick because it shames him to be indebted to a pirate. Law then calls out to "Joker" who was monitoring the battle with a Den-Den Mushi, and tells him that once Vergo is defeated and Caesar captured, all the SAD at his disposal will be gone and he will lose his position as king of the underground. Doflamingo then laughs, replying that Law's fear of Vergo when he becomes very angry is still there, and that his Haki protects his whole body so that not even Law's power can hope to cut him. Law then proves Doflamingo wrong by cutting a Haki-armored Vergo in half, along with the SAD chamber and the mountain it was built in. Law then states that Whitebeard only ended the last era and that the marines never challenged any of the big name pirates recently because they were preparing a new battle force and that the war at Marineford was really just a prelude to something else. Law continues by saying that, like Doflamingo had said, a new unstoppable wave always marks the beginning of a "new era of great ones", and that he had broken the gears of the cycle so no one, not even Doflamingo can turn them back.

Quick References

Chapter Notes

• Luffy continues his fight with Caesar Clown.
• Caesar reveals a new attack, "Gastille".
• Kin'emon learns that his son was changed into a dragon and runs back to Building B with Brook, thinking the dragon they took down earlier was Momonosuke.
• Usopp reaches the secret room in Building R, only to be besieged by enemies.
• The rest of the Straw Hats, along with the G-5 Marines and the kidnapped children, all head to the first floor of Building R.
• Smoker gets defeated by Vergo in order for Trafalgar Law to finish him off.
• At the end of their battle, Vergo breaks Smoker's jitte. This is the second time Smoker's jitte has been broken, the first was by Boa Hancock during the Marineford Arc.
• Law retrieved his heart from Vergo during the battle with Smoker.
• Vergo reveals he can imbue his entire body with Armament Haki.
• Law uses his Devil Fruit ability to cut Vergo in half, as well as the SAD tank, with the lab and the entire mountain.
• Law says that the Summit War of Marineford was a prelude to something bigger coming.

Characters

Pirates			Marines	Citizens	Others
Straw Hat Pirates Monkey D. Luffy Roronoa Zoro Nami Usopp Nico Robin Brook Warlords Trafalgar Law	Donquixote Pirates Donquixote Doflamingo Vergo Big Mom Pirates Charlotte Linlin Caribou Pirates Caribou (cover)	Kid Pirates Eustass Kid On Air Pirates Scratchmen Apoo Hawkins Pirates Basil Hawkins	G-5 Smoker Tashigi	Punk Hazard Caesar Clown Brownbeard Wano Country Kin'emon Momonosuke Other Baburu (cover)	Children Sind Doran Uzu Biyo

Author Comment

Author Comment
Translation Original Two weeks until the movie's release on December 15th. Watch the trailer on the One Piece homepage with the volume on full blast. 映画公開12月15日まで、あと2週間。ワンピースのHPの予告編は大音量で観てね。 —Eiichiro Oda
English translation by Greg Werner. For comprehensive translation credits, see here.

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