Episode 496

"Someday to the Sea! The Oath Cups of the Three Brats!" is the 496th episode of the One Piece anime.

Short Summary
Sabo is seen by his father but Sabo pretends he does not know him. Later Sabo explains to Ace and Luffy that he is in fact a Noble. Ace, Sabo, and Luffy become brothers by sharing a drink together.

Long Summary
Sabo, Luffy and Ace continue their adventures and grow stronger day by day. Sabo, Luffy and Ace beat up a crocodile and then dresses up as a seller of Grey Terminal going into the Goa Kingdom pretending to be selling crocodile leather for the Nobles to the guards. They beat up some thugs and theives on the way to the Nobles and they realize it is the three kids. When they r iside the city, every Nobles get disgusted by their disguise for being so dirty. They sell the crocodile and get a lot of money. Then they straightly head to a restaurant to eat ramen. The manager of the restaurant disagrees to let them inside the restaurant for eating. But then Sabo gives him a precious jewel to the manager bribing him. Sabo states to Ace that he found it on the city. After giving them their own private room, they relax and eat a lot of ramen. When the waiter girl gets tired of delivering a lot of ramen bowls to them, she gets inside the room and sees a long hand stretching ( for Luffy) and taking the bowls from the waiter girl from the "man." She gets scared and notes this to the manager. When the manager and the waiter girl check inside to see more, they realize and see 3 kids greedily eating the ramen bowls. Seeing they got caught, Luffy, Sabo and Ace smashes the window and jumps out of the building and makes a long run. While running, a Noble calls Sabo by his name and Luffy and Ace gets confused. Ace tells to Sabo that someone was him but Sabo in a worried expression denies and tells that the Noble may be mistaken for someone else. When they arrive on Grey Terminal in a shory place, Ace and Luffy convinces Sabo to tell him what Sabo was hiding from them. Sabo tells them that he is in fact a Noble. Luffy and Ace gets more confused and both poke their nose. Sabo then decides to tell the truth. He was born from a Noble called Outlook III and his wife. As a small child, his parents told him that to study a lot and come top at his exams so that he can marry the royal family`s daughter. ( to get wealth and fame and for theirselves and raise their social status higher ) Sabo ask that if it will make him happy and they reply yes lying to him. Sabo becomes an intelligent and brilliant student. He studies a lot believing that he`ll be happy. One day, his father`s buisness goes wrong and gets tired. Sabo comes to him and shows a picture he drawed to see his father`s opiniom. In anger, his father tears the drawing and tells him to study. He gets sad. To make matters worse, he had a fight with the royal family`s son who used a knife to beat him. Sabo got injured and so the son too. Sabo says to his mother he got injured from a knife and he started it but his mother ignores it and slaps him. Realizing that they were using him, Sabo meets a new place known as Grey Terminal where everybody was free and had funloving and had no worries. Sabo went there day by day and eventually loved that place and spent most time there. This led to his grades poor.His father notices it and tells him to never go to that "stinky and rotten" place. But Sabo dosen`t listen and eventually escapes from home and starts living there. So this was the life story of Sabo. Ace then vows to the two of his friends that he`ll become such a Pirate one day, everybody will know his name. Sabo also vows that too but much to their surprise, Luffy tells them that he`ll become Pirate King. Ace and Sabo both mock Luffy afterwards. Then Ace brings three cups and a stolen Sake from Curly Dadan and tells them that if men drink together, they become brothers. Then they drink Sake togethers and become officially "brothers."

Anime Notes

 * In the anime, Ace beat both Luffy and Sabo while in the manga, Ace was only seen fighting with Luffy. Luffy also fights Sabo but loses.
 * In the anime, it is shown that Ace, Sabo, and Luffy disguised themselves before entering a restaurant and they were eating ramen before fleeing. Interestingly, Sabo has never had ramen, the favorite dish of his voice actor's more infamous role, Uzumaki Naruto.

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