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Chapter's Events:
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"Wait a moment, Luffy-san!!"
"Hold it, Megaloooo!!!"
"Where are you going?!!!" Brook and the Right Minister saw Luffy leaving on top of Megalo, who looked strangely bloated.
They didn't know he was hiding the princess in his belly.
"Father… Brothers…!! Everyone… Please forgive me…!!"
"I am going out without your permission…!! I will be back in time for dinner!!" Shirahoshi clung to Megalo's teeth, hiding silently inside the poor shark while apologizing to everyone who would worry about her.
"Let's go for a waaalk!!" Laughed Luffy, as usual, heading for adventure.
"What are you doing, Megalo?!! Simply opening the door of Shell Tower and leaving…!! What if something were to happen to the princess…?!!" The Right Minister yelled at Megalo, who couldn't do anything in this situation.
"Hurry inside, skeleton!! We must check on the princess's safety!!"
"Could you be a little less rough?!!" Brook was surprised.
But the shock came when they checked the room and found it empty.
"She's goooooone!!!"
"Princess Shirahoshi… Is gooooone!!!!" The Right Minister nearly lost his mind at that moment.
"Ehhhhh?!! The mermaid princess isn't here?!!" Even Brook was disappointed that he wouldn't get to ask to see the princess's underpants.
"Ahhhhh, this is terrible!!! This is a national emergency!!! When did this happen?!! Who is responsible?!!! This is a kidnapping without a doubt!!!"
"Kidnapping?!" Before they could grasp what was happening, a human pirate attacked them, but Brook skillfully fended him off.
"What exactly was that for, hmmm?"
Some of the pirates thrown here by Vander Decken stood up, demanding to know the location of the switch that lowers the connecting way linking the palace to the outside world.
"We've gotta do as we've been ordered… There's no other way… If we don't do as they told us… We'll never survive…!"
"So hurry up and answer…"
"If we don't find out, they'll kill us…!!!"
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Fishman Island:
"I wonder why Shirahoshi wants to go to a place like the Sea Forest…"
Said Tom as he looked at the chapter with curious eyes, not worried by the turn of events toward what seemed to be the worst.
His brother Den looked in the direction of the Sea Forest with a look of appreciation before answering.
"When you've been locked between four concrete walls for 10 years, of course, you'd want to see the Sea Forest. The air there is the best in the entire kingdom."
"That's not a good enough reason. Maybe she wants to meet someone there. Is it Jinbe, too?"
"Suuuuper! Where's my counterpart in all this!? Half the arc has passed, and he hasn't shown up yet!? Even Robin is missing! Could they be in this place called the Sea Forest!?"
Franky felt frustrated by the lack of news about his counterpart.
"Tahaha! I think your counterpart will be wherever the Thousand Sunny is, so don't rush." Tom laughed as he gave his opinion.
"That makes sense."
"Of course it does."
Iceberg stopped flipping pages at a particular scene.
"Looks like Hatchi got beaten up badly again…"
The next scene that made him stop turning the pages was Hatchan, covered in blood, appearing in front of Sanji and Chopper.
…
Hatchi looked at his counterpart with sad eyes, wondering:
"Who did this to him!? Was it Hody and his group!?"
"He's warning the Straw Hat crew not to interfere in the matters of the island and the New Fishman Pirates, so it seems clear," said Jinbe.
"Tsk, it looks like things are about to take a different turn from this moment on…"
"The Straw Hat Pirates will shift from supposed villains to potential saviors."
"Is Fishman Island on the verge of orchestrated chaos!?"
Fisher Tiger felt great disappointment, saying, "To see the world realize how fragile this race is… how shameful… I hope to see you do something to stop this farce, Jinbe, because I don't trust Neptune—he's weak-willed."
Arlong looked at both Jinbe and Fisher Tiger and clenched his fist secretly.
It seemed his counterpart's recklessness and stupidity had cost him the ability to compete with Jinbe for glory. He didn't want to see this fate.
Now, even the young boy who once looked up to him as an idol had influence over the fate of the entire Fishman Island, even if through evil means.
Tiger ignored Arlong's expressions and looked toward Hody Jones, saying:
"Hody, watch everything your counterpart does and see the consequences—so you won't be a fool like him one day."
"Don't worry, Tiger-san. I've already started seeing things from a different perspective."
Hody Jones's eyes gleamed as he said that.
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Not far from Fisher Tiger's group, King Neptune was also staring at the chapter in amazement.
"To think things would get worse this quickly… It seems the safety of the royal palace is now in the hands of the Straw Hats."
"And Shirahoshi's safety is in Luffy's hands, and that's oddly reassuring."
Neptune smiled when he saw his daughter apologizing internally to everyone after leaving without permission.
That alone made him love the daughter he hadn't even gotten yet more and more.
"It's okay, Shirahoshi. It's okay. Your father is proud of you."
"Your Majesty, it seems Vander Decken is sending the human pirates who were under Hody Jones's command to open the passage from inside. That means they're planning to invade the royal palace," said one of the ministers beside him, analyzing.
"I can see that—I'm not blind."
"Too bad for them. Even if they succeed, they'll find Zoro waiting for them."
King Neptune was at ease, knowing that someone as strong as Zoro was currently inside the royal palace.
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Marineford:
In the next chapter, Sengoku was able to see what happened to Hatchi in detail.
"I see that Hody Jones indeed inherited Arlong's wicked will, but he's far more dangerous than just one Arlong. He's a threat to his own race," said Sengoku.
"What do we care if fish fight among themselves? What a boring arc," mocked Sakazuki as he yawned lightly.
"I see that Hatchan trusted his own race too much. Now, getting stabbed in the back… That's pathetic."
Borsalino felt sorry for Hatchi.
"When a person walks the right path after taking the wrong one, the journey becomes much harder… That's what happened with Hatchi."
Kuzan also spoke about Hatchi's condition.
"It looks like the situation on Fishman Island will become very bad, and this doesn't seem like something that exploded in one day—it's been building up for years."
Tsuru also shared her point of view.
"This may be far bigger than it seems. Don't be hasty, Sakazuki. I don't find this arc boring in the slightest."
"Looks like a great battle is about to begin here soon."
Zephyr looked at Sakazuki as he spoke.
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In Pangaea Castle, Imu looked meaningfully at Shirahoshi, as if time had frozen in that moment.
The Five Elders felt sweat on their backs as they heard Imu tapping their finger on the Empty Throne from time to time.
After a silence that felt longer than the Void Century, a sigh came from the depths of history.
"Sigh~ Poseidon…!!!"
One word made the expressions of the Five Elders change drastically.
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Upcoming chapter titles (spoilers):
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Chapter 928: The Queen's Grave.
Chapter 929: You're not my type!
Chapter 930: The Small Knife is No Longer Enough to Face Zoro.
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