One Piece 621

Guidelines For Using My Translations

1
One Piece
Chapter 621: Otohime and Tiger
From Shipdecks Around The World
Vol 8: Syrup Village

2
[Insert text: Jimbei tells of Fishman Island's history...]
[Box: Let us take a step back in time...]
SomeGuy: STOP THAT THIEF~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!
[Box: This is the Fishman Island of sixteen years past.]
SomeGuy: Somebody stop that thief~~~~~~~!!! / He just stole a small fortune offa me!!
Thief: Outta my way!!! I've got a pistol here, you know!!! // And a hostage, too!!! So stay back, all of ya!!!
People: Aaaahhhh!!
People: Your Majesty!!! // Please reconsider!! / It is not right......!! You cannot personally involve yourself in these matters!! That is our job, not yours!! // Please, stay back~~~~~!!! Your Majesty~~~~~~~~~~~!!!

3
Thief: !! // Who is it now?!!! *pant*... *pant*... // Don't say I didn't warn ya~~~!!!
People: Aaahhhhh~~~!!!
Thief: Ehh?! // Guehhhh!!!

4
Otohime: Aaaahhhhhhhhhh~~!!! // My hand~~~~~!!
[Box: Wife of King Neptune / Queen Otohime / (Goldfish Mermaid)]
People: Say what?!!
Otohime: Doctor~~~!!
Doctor: It's a compound fracture!!
Otohime: I care not!!
People: Queen Otohime!! // It's the Queen~~!!!
Thief: The Queen?! / *pant* // ...............?! / *pant*

5
Otohime: Why would you stoop to committing such a vile act as thievery?!!!
Thief: Shaddup!! I don't expect pampered royals like you to understand me!! / I've got ten crying kids at home to provide for!!!
Otohime: That makes it all the worse!!!
Thief: ?!! // Unghh!
RightMinister: Your Majesty!!! Please stop assaulting the criminal!! / You know how exceptionally weak your body is!!!
Otohime: I care not if my hand shatters into a thousand pieces! It is for this man's sake!! // Tell me!! If your children are raised on stolen money... / Can they truly be happy?!!
Thief: !!
Otohime: A man should only live a life that he can speak to his children of with pride!! // And yet...... I too must apologise............!!!
Thief: ?!

6
Otohime: I am so sorry!!! / Forgive me for failing to notice your suffering, even though we dwell in the same country.........!
Thief: ?!! // Ehh...?
Otohime: ......The pain that dwells in your heart... / ...is as a knife through my own.........!!! // Ahhhh!! Aaahhhhhhhh!! Truly, the ordeals that drove you to this were terrible!
Thief: ...............?!! // .........!!! Uuurghh...!! I never...... I never wanted to do this.........!!! // But I...!! I had no choice!! There was nothing else I could do!!!
Otohime: ...............!!
Thief: My shop was burned down by arsonists...!! All the money I had was stolen...!! I'm clean out of work...!! / My debts just keep rising...!! And I can't stand to see my children going hungry...!!! // Aaahhh...
Otohime: But this is wrong!!! / You cannot respond by doing the same yourself, or the chain of suffering will continue!!!
Thief: Buehhh!!! // I'm so sorry~~!!
Otohime; And yet!! I must apologise!! We rulers should have been there for our subjects in need... The blame lies with us, as well...
Thief: Noooo!! You're too kind...!! I don't deserve this!! / You're too kind~~~~~!!

7
Thief: I'll turn over a new leaf!! Make a new life for myself!!! / Thank you so much... for shedding tears for the likes of me!! Your Majesty!!
Otohime: Think nothing of it!!! // I wish you all the luck in the world!!!
People: It's unusual enough for members of the Royal Family to even leave the castle and walk among the common people... // Yet Queen Otohime cries genuine tears for her individual citizens and even slaps them around the face...... // She certainly is a most unusual Queen...! // They don't call her the Queen of Love for nothing... And just look how popular she is with the children!
Kid: Queen Otohime~~~~~~~~~~~~!!
Otohime: Your nose is running!! This smack is for your own good!!!
Kid: Aaarghh!!!
People: !!
Otohime: Dripping snot from only one nostril makes you look like a fool...!! / If you must do so, then at least do so from both nostrils.........!!
Kid: Queen Otohime~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!
People: How very moving... // ......It is...?

8
[Box: Otohime, the passionate "Queen of Love"...]
Otohime: We must raise our Ryuuguu Kingdom above the waves!!!
[Box: Every day, she descends to the island, and mingles with her subjects.]
Otohime: Their skin may be of a different colour... Their bodies may differ from ours... / But it is not enough for us to wait for the day when the humans come to understand us!! // We must take action ourselves, and strive to understand them!!!

9
Otohime: Ten thousand metres of ocean water... this is the distance between our culture and theirs!!
Jimbei: ...........................
Otohime: Please do not misunderstand!! / The humans that visit our island are a specific type known as "pirates"!
Jimbei: .........
Otohime: And those humans who purchase from the slave traders are an elite minority known as nobles!! / The humans with whom we are familiar are but a tiny fraction of their society!! // We still know next to nothing about humanity as a whole!! // That is why we must move our kingdom, so that our societies can live together under the same sun!!! // At this year's upcoming Reverie council, I would like to express this wish to the world as a whole!!! / Citizens of this kingdom, I ask for each of your individual signatures!!!
People: ........................!! // ..................I dunno... // Even if it is a request from Queen Otohime......
Jimbei: ......Hmph. It's useless. // History has already made the answer clear...

10
Shirahoshi: Waaahhhh~! Waaahhhh~!
Otohime: I'm home, children~!
Children: Welcome home, Mother~~~~~!!
Otohime: Ah, Shirahoshi, my haven of tranquility... / I am sorry I could not return to you sooner... / Ahh, even with snot dripping from only one of your nostrils, you are so adorable...!♡
Fukaboshi: Don't worry about Shirahoshi, Mother! / We've been with her the whole time!!
Ryuuboshi/Mamboshi: She's fine, she's fine!
Otohime: Thank you, my Princes.
Mamboshi: Mother... Is your hand all right?
Otohime: My Princes... I will ensure that the future you grow up in will be very different from the world of today!
LeftMinister: If only Queen Otohime would concede to address the public via broadcast rather than in person...
Neptune: The powerful Observation Haki she was born with that will not permit her to do such a thing! // She must be close enough to feel her subjects' hearts; it is part of her nature. Even I can do nothing about this.
LeftMinister: That may be, but the fact remains that there are many human pirates staying on the island!

11
LeftMinister: Certainly, the support of your friend, the pirate Whitebeard, grants us a measure of protection... / But even that is not absolute!
Neptune: She is quite aware of the dangers. // The world that Otohime dreams of, Minister... / ...has a history spanning hundreds of years. // It is one and the same as the dream that our distant ancestors fervently pursued... / ...only to end in tragic failure...!!
LeftMinister: ...?! Whatever do you mean by that...?
Neptune: I cannot stop Otohime from pursuing her ideals. I can only ask you to keep her safe...!!
[Box: One day...]
People: Give it back!! How many people's signatures do you think are on that piece of paper?!!
Arlong: Do I look like I care? Shahahahah! / What's the point in collecting these scraps of paper, anyway?!!
SomeGuy: Hey!!! Stop this at once!!! // You're Arlong from the Fishman District, aren't you?!

12
Arlong: Hmmm?! / That's not quite right.
SomeGuy: Urghh...
[Box: Captain of the Arlong Pirates / Arlong (25) / (Sawshark Fishman)]
Arlong: I'm Captain Arlong... / ...of the Arlong Pirates!! // We make our living hunting in these waters for inferior pirates who can't even breathe underwater.
Jimbei: .........
Arlong: Basically, we're doing the worthless army's job for it. So why don't you fork out some cash as thanks, eh?!
Jimbei: ..................
SomeGuy: B... Boss Jimbei!! / Don't just sit there watching! Help me out, please!!
Jimbei: ..................
Arlong: ......Jimbei.........?

13
Jimbei: You heard the rookie, punk. Put him down! That's my subordinate you're manhandling. / And though I can't say I'm interested in those signatures myself... the same can't be said for the Queen. Give it back.
[Box: Soldier in the Neptune Army / Jimbei (30) / (Whale Shark Fishman)]
People: It's Boss Jimbei! ! / From the Neptune Army!! // What a relief!!
Arlong: Shahahahah!! "Boss", is it?! Well, that's a new one!! / I've never seen a soldier who looks like some kind of mafia boss before!!
Jimbei: Just do as I say, Arlong!!
Arlong: Fine, fine!! Whatever!!
SomeGuy: Aargh!
Arlong: Don't get so mad, old friend!! / It's been too long!! Don't you remember the good times we used to have... / ...back in the Fishman District?!
Jimbei: Don't lump me together with you. Are you still devoting your life to the likes of piracy? // Piece of trash.

14
Arlong: Now, that's going a bit far, ain't it, bro?
Jimbei: Scrap, then?
Someone: Hey, everyone!! // Fisher Tiger the adventurer is back!!!
Jimbei: Big Bro Ti?
Arlong: The Big Bro's back?!!
Tiger: Jimbei!! Arlong!!!
People: It's Tiger-san~~~~~~~!!
Tiger: Damned if you two aren't looking well!!!
People: Tell us about your travels~~~~~!!
Jimbei: This last trip certainly took you a while!!
Tiger: Oh, yes. I've been through a lot!! / But right now, I have business at the Palace.
Arlong: Why don't you stop by at my ship?!
[Box: The Fishman District... // ...started out as a gigantic institution to take care of orphaned children.]

15
[Box: But before long, it descended into chaos. The people in charge were unable to keep their charges under control... // And so the area became a lawless region, home to the rebels and outcasts of Fishman Island. // Fisher Tiger, the one-time de facto leader of the Fishman District... // ...ultimately left the country to find adventure. // His second-in-command, Jimbei... // ...found a place for himself in the Royal Army. // Arlong, the wildest of all the rebels... // ...became a pirate, wreaking havoc across the ocean floor... // And some, such as the coward Macro, entered into the slave trade. // And so it was that they all went their separate ways. // Yet one day, a shocking event occurred that left each and every one of them dumbfounded!!]
People: Tiger-san stood up against the Tenryuubito!!!
[Box: Fisher Tiger's attack upon the Holy Land of Mariejoa... / ...at once earned him the title "Hero of Slaves", and marked him as a terrible criminal.]

16
[Box: Upon hearing of this, Fisher Tiger's one-time fellows from the Fishman District came together... / ...to protect him from the Government against which he had rebelled.]
Jimbei: I would like to submit my resignation!!!
Arlong: Let's go, you guys!!!
[Box: To avoid discrimination between the former slaves whom Tiger had freed and those who had gathered of their own free will... / ...every one of their number branded their bodies with the "Mark of the Sun", covering the former marks of slavery. // And thus began... / ...the fishman crew known as the "Sun Pirates"...!!! // Though the Marines pursued relentlessly...]
Marines: Take the head of Fisher Tiger!!!
[Box: ...each attacking vessel was sunk without fail...]
Arlong: That's enough, Bro!! Put him down!! // The guy's not conscious!!!
Jimbei: .........Slavery is permitted... / ...and to grant freedom a crime...!!! // And still you tell us to love these humans... // ...Queen Otohime......?!
Arlong: Shahahah!! Well, ain't this something!!
[Box: ...and the Sun Pirates continued their advance.]
[Insert text: An unstoppable force!!]