Episode 439

Statitcs

 * Air Date:
 * Tv Ranking; Rating: 11.9 Rank: 3
 * Manga Chapters: 537 p.10-17 and 538 p.1-7

Summary
While Ivankov is dancing around and joking with his followers, an intruder interrupts and declares that his father, once a king, one day paid a visit to Kambakka Kingdom - and came back a queer! Because of this, the king's country and family were ruined, and his son was reduced from his princely state to a meer pirate. He fires his handheld cannon in vengeance, but Iva uses his Death Wink to repel the cannonball shot back at him, then injects the burly man with female hormones and transforms him into a sexy female lady with huge female features. The intruder flees in embarrassment. After witnessing this "miracle," Bon Kurei begs Iva to save Luffy. Iva leads Bon down a deserted corridor and says the only reason he helped them was because Luffy, writhing in pain, begged them to save his friend earlier. He has been under treatment for 10 hours. Meanwhile, on Level 5, Buggy and Mr. 3 are seen running away from wolves on stilts made from wax. Iva and Bon arrive outside a door that has been chained shut, through which Luffy's screams of agony can be heard. Iva informs Bon that Luffy still has 2 more days of treatment to endure. Meanwhile, Luffy, chained down inside the chamber, recalls the memory of himself and Ace as children, laughing and talking by a cliff overlooking the ocean. At the end it is declared that only 16 hours are left until Ace's execution! Luffy won't make it in time?!

Characters in Order of Appearance

 * Emporio Ivankov
 * Mr. 2 Bon Kurei
 * Monkey D. Luffy
 * Inazuma
 * Buggy
 * Mr. 3
 * Wolf Unit
 * Portgas D. Ace (flashback)

Trivia

 * While Buggy and Mr.3 are running from the wolves on stilts, they break the 4th wall saying to camera, "for those of you born after the 90's, these are traditional bamboo stilts."
 * This episode contains the first flashback of Ace and Luffy together, back when they were growing up in the East Blue.