Chapter 382

While the boarding party drives further inland, Spandam vents his cruelty on the chained Robin and Franky inside the administration tower. He spells out how he intends to renege on the bargain, Lucci names his craving for blood, and Blueno, spotting the snail phone knocked off its hook, slips outside to investigate.

The cover panel keeps the Goldenweek gag rolling: Mr. 3, who has somehow turned up on Kyuka Island himself, feels no obligation toward Miss Valentine and bolts for his own ship.

The king bulls Sodom and Gomorrah trample the foot soldiers as Sanji points them toward Luffy. In the tower, Spandam taunts the bound Franky over how readily his old sins could have been weaponized, then recounts Iceburg's rise: after Tom died, the shipwright merged Water 7's yards, partnered with the World Government as a purveyor, and grew so essential that even CP9 could not lay a finger on him. Only now does Franky grasp why his friend struck that deal. Spandam adds that Aokiji warned him of Robin's approach, and that he wove his Buster Call authority into the scheme, putting both keys to the Ancient Weapons within reach.

When Robin doubts that Aokiji would entrust him with such power, Spandam strikes her and brands her the wretched blood of Ohara, swearing to make her beg for death before he casts her into the sea. He gloats that the Straw Hats are nearby and writes Luffy off as trash bound for Impel Down. Robin insists her cooperation hinged on the crew's safe departure, but Spandam has Lucci quote the precise terms, that the six members apart from her would leave Water 7 unharmed, and calls the contract technically honored. He kicks Franky and condemns the pair to die together. Afterward Lucci tells Spandam he wants neither rank nor recognition, shifts into his leopard hybrid shape, and answers that what he truly seeks is blood.

The flashback confirms that Iceburg dealt with the government to safeguard Tom's will, having made himself indispensable. Aokiji has placed a Buster Call in Spandam's hands. Although the agreement traded Robin's surrender for the crew's freedom, Spandam means to seize them anyway, which leaves her dismayed. The captain himself, hunting for a way across to the courthouse, has an Air Door open before him as Blueno emerges to confront him, and Luffy vows to fight on until the day he dies.