Chapter 142

Chapter 142 is titled "Skull, Crossbone and Sakura".

Cover Page
Jango's Dance Paradise Vol. 13: "Jango Thoughtlessly Enters the Dance Contest".

Jango enters the contest and everyone gets down!

Short Summary
Years ago, Dalton assisted a World Government summit about the emergence of a new enemy: the Revolutionary, Dragon. There, he encountered young Vivi who showed him how someone who cared about his country should behave.

Meanwhile, Chopper was finally happy, able to spend time with Dr. Hiriluk. The fake doctor tried to reproduce a Sakura bloom in a winter environment. He told Chopper a story of a thief who had an incurable disease by medical standards. Once he saw a Sakura boom in the winter, he was instantly cured of his affliction. Hiriluk believed that it was the key to a universal medicine which would help to cure this country, sick of Wapol's behavior. As a symbol of his determination to succeed, Hiriluk drew a Jolly Roger with cherry flower petals as a symbol of hope and relinquished dreaming.

After a year of laughs and disputes, Dr. Hiriluk asked Chopper to leave him, pretending he was now cured. The reindeer did not understand this sudden change of attitude and tried to hurt himself so that the doctor would take him back. But Hiriluk fired a shot at him and told him to never come back.

Long Summary
Dr. Hiriluk ponders as to why Chopper did not speak to him before, while Chopper answers him saying that if he had then he probably would have been shunned, which Hiluk scoffs at then gets scared when one of his experiments is about to explode. Meanwhile Dalton is talking to Chess and Marimo about he state of their kingdom, wondering if it is heading in the right direction, to which they reply it is, which prompt Dalton to remember the meeting of kings when Wapol was being disrespectful and hit a girl who brushed it off. Back at Hiriluk's hideout he tells Chopper that the kingdom is sick, and how a thief who was once very sick was cured by cherry blossoms. He then tells Chopper of how he pirate flag is a symbol of faith, they then go to treat patients but are cast out each time, and uses Chopper as a decoy to get away and gives him a hat as a present. One year later Chopper is completely cured and i kicked out of Hiriluk's home for some reason, and Chopper tries to get back in by injuring himself, but fails and is attacked by Hiriluk who is seen sobbing after.

Chapter Notes

 * An event known as Levely, held every four years between the kingdoms of the world, is introduced.
 * One of the topics discussed was the rise of Dragon and the Revolutionary Army.
 * An incident between Wapol and the Alabasta entourage impacted Dalton's growing negative views of Drum's king.
 * Nefertari Cobra, Vivi's father and the king of Alabasta, is introduced in flashback.
 * Hiriluk introduces to Chopper a special Jolly Roger symbolizing his hope for the Drum Kingdom.
 * After a year of living with him, Chopper is chased out of Hiriluk's home for his own good.

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