Chapter 522

Coverstory Summary
CP9's Independent Report vol. 28: "We Won't Let You Disturb Our Home"

The arrest is met with violent opposition.

Plot Points

 * Hancock became empress and obtained the position of Shichibukai eleven years prior to the current events.
 * Her former bounty is also revealed to be 80,000,000.
 * Luffy finds out that not only the Whitebeard Pirates are going to war with the Marines at Marineford, but that his brother Portgas D. Ace is sentenced to be executed there in six days.
 * Elder Nyon explains a current that connects the three central government institutions: Marineford, Enies Lobby, and Impel Down together via the Gates of Justice and a giant whirlpool.
 * Luffy decides to delay his search for his crew and decides to go to Impel Down to rescue Ace before he's sent to Marineford.
 * Hancock get strucken down by a "disease" that had killed her predecessors.
 * The disease turns out to be Love Sickness, and that Hancock has fallen in love with Luffy.

Anime episode
p1 to p 14: episode 416

p15 to p19: episode 417

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