Chapter 173

Cover
Straw Hat and animals: Luffy and some bears cooking some fish.

Quick Summary
In Rainbase's secret room, Crocodile gives Vivi two impossible choices: to save the Straw Hat or to stop the rebellion.

Long Summary
Before leaving, Crocodile explains Vivi the solutions she has got: either she tries to reach the rebels which is impossible in the time that remain or she tries to save her friend which will also be very hard because he throw the key of the cell into the Bananawani pool where one of them ate it. Moreover the building will self destruct in a short time. To make her despair even more, he reveals that he was the responsible of the sandstorm that came one after the others to Yuba oasis and mock Toto's stupidity. This makes Luffy full of anger, he beg Vivi to help them so that he can beat Crocodile. However, the destruction mechanism made the water level in the Bananawani pool increase. They escape of their place one after the other and start to hunt Vivi who barely escape these powerfull animals.

Meanwhile Crocodile receive a weird phone call from the snail phone he uses to contact Billions. The voice and the speech of the person speaking reminds of previous conversation...

Plot Points

 * The prison begins to flood.

Returning characters

 * Baroque Works
 * Crocodile
 * Miss All Sunday
 * Straw Hats
 * Luffy
 * Nami
 * Zoro
 * Usopp
 * Vivi

Attacks

 * Vivi
 * Kujakki String Slasher (Peacock String Slasher) (though was attacked by the Bananawani before she could finish)

Anime episode
Episode 108