One Piece 627

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One Piece
Chapter 627: My Eternal Gratitude
From Shipdecks Around The World
Vol 13: Baratie - The Docking Teppanyaki Vessel "Nasugashira"

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[Insert text: Who is the culprit...?!]
[Box: Otohime, Queen of the Ryuuguu Kingdom, felled by an assassin's bullet...]
Flashback!Guards: We've taken out the sniper~~~~!!! // This is the culprit, no doubt about it!!!
Flashback!Jimbei: Who is the fiend?!!!
Flashback!Guards: Jimbei-san!!!
Flashback!Jimbei: .................. // Hide the body......!!!
Flashback!Guards: ?!! / But, Boss Jimbei!!
Flashback!Jimbei: .........!! What do you think this would do to all Her Majesty's efforts?!!! / It would be too cruel!!!

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Flashback!Jones: But this is... the truth.
Flashback!Jimbei: No!! This man is a mere pirate!!
Flashback!Jones: That changes nothing!!!
Flashback!Jimbei: Stop this......!!! // Hordy!!!
Flashback!Jones: THIS HUMAN... // ...HAS MURDERED... / ...OUR QUEEN~~~~~~~!!!!

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Flashback!Jones: THE MAN WHO MURDERED QUEEN OTOHIME... // ...WAS A HUMAN~~~~~~~~~~!!!!
Flashback!Guard: Urghhh...!!! / What did we do to deserve this.........?!! // The humans... // ...have taken our efforts to live together in peace... // ...and shattered them...!!! // They stole the life of the person... / ...we loved above all else...!!! // DAMN HUMAN!!! YOUR DEATH WON'T BRING QUEEN OTOHIME BACK TO US!!!
Flashback!LeftMinister: Is there no God......?!!! // This is too cruel...!! // Too cruel......!!!

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[Box: Ryuuguu Palace, Shell Tower]
Flashback!People: Is His Majesty still refusing to leave Shell Tower......? // Yes... He claims that he cannot trust himself to control his urges...
Flashback!Flashback!Neptune: Lock the door tight!!! // And do not open it until my murderous desires have passed!
Flashback!LeftMinister: The culprit was wielding a gun... / ...so the soldiers fired on him... / On the human...
Flashback!Neptune: ...Minister of the Left... / I would have murdered the culprit... even had he been unarmed.
Flashback!LeftMinister: ! / ...............!!
Flashback!Neptune: Otohime would... never forgive me for that... // Nobody can know where the chain of hatred begins... / They merely become a part of it with each new act of murder... // And the eyes of the children who witness this grow dry and cold... // ...In my head... I can understand the reason behind Otohime's words. The theory, I understand...

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Flashback!Neptune: But why must I be denied the opportunity to kill the murderer of my wife...?!!! // My heart refuses to accept it!!!!
Flashback!LeftMinister: .................. // ...I have avenged any number of comrades on the battlefield in the past...!! / I have taken the lives of many humans who made themselves my enemy...!! // That is why I always felt that I had no right... / ...to aid in Otohime's efforts. Why I did nothing but watch... // Why must the innocent Otohime die, whilst I live on...?!! / I do not have the right to continue what she began... It would be too full of contradictions...!!
Flashback!LeftMinister: But, Your Majesty, a person's heart is a fickle thing... / We are all filled with contradictions. Both fishmen and humans. // There are some things that only a warrior can protect...

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Flashback!Someone: Your Majesty!! There has been a strange incident!!
Flashback!Neptune: ?! // What exactly is going on...?
Flashback!Shirahoshi: These letters keep following me wherever I go!
Flashback!Fukaboshi: This is the fifth letter already, Father!!
Flashback!Neptune: A love letter?!!
[Letter: I have fallen in love with you; I know it! Marry me! - Vander Decken]
Flashback!Neptune: Shirahoshi is only six years old!! // Who is this Vander Decken?
Flashback!Fukaboshi: The latest in a long line of pirates.
Flashback!Neptune: Do not take the children to the funeral. / The assassin may still have accomplices lurking in the area.
Flashback!Fukaboshi: What?!
Flashback!Neptune: And see to it that this Decken is captured at once!!
Flashback!Guards: Yes, sir!

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[Box: The Ocean Forest]
Flashback!Fukaboshi: ...*bzzt*... People of Fishman Island...
Flashback!People: ! // The monitor......!!!

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Flashback!People: Prince Fukaboshi!!
Flashback!Neptune: Fukaboshi......
Flashback!People: ..................
Flashback!Fukaboshi: My mother told me... // ...that she believed we could still reach... / ...the light of the Sun.
Flashback!People: ...............!!
Flashback!Fukaboshi: Our scars may run too deep... // ...to heal in time for the next Reverie, which is only two years away. / But there will be another in six years, and still another in ten.

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Flashback!Fukaboshi: We will fulfil our mother's final wish... / ...even if it takes us our entire lives.
Flashback!RightMinister: ...Your Highnesses......!!
Flashback!Fukaboshi: I do not doubt that this incident will have swayed many people's hearts. / As such, I will cast aside those signatures which survived the fire!! / We will start over from the beginning. // So I ask only that one day... / When the scars on your hearts have healed... // You can join us once more... // ...in our dreams of the Sun...!!!

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Jimbei: Ten years have passed since that day... // Fukaboshi, Ryuuboshi and Mamboshi... the three Princes have never wavered in their efforts. / The King and Princess, too, have continued to address the Kingdom over the monitors. // And as a result, the people of this Kingdom have once again submitted a great number of signatures in support of their cause...!! // This is the battle against discrimination that has plagued our island for sixteen long years...... // And it is also the tale of the Fishman Pirates... / Arlong, the man responsible for tormenting the people of your homeland...
Nami: .........
Jimbei: ...was once my own comrade in arms...!! I feel responsible for his actions!!

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Jimbei: I always intended to seek him out and stop him if he ever went too far... // But through his bribes to the local officials... / ...Arlong ensured that word of his misdeeds never reached as far as Marine HQ.
Sanji: Right, that does it!! Cut your stomach open!! // Don't think that'll be enough for us to forgive you, but it'll at least help Nami-san feel a little better!!!
Nami: Stop, Sanji-kun!! / He never meant for anything like that to happen.
Sanji: But, Nami-san...
Jimbei: I will submit to whatever punishment you see fit!!!
Nami: No! It's Arlong that I hate, not you. // I'm just glad that the rumours about you being the mastermind behind Arlong's crew weren't true. / After all, you're Luffy's friend, aren't you?

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Nami: I'm not going to deny that the things Arlong and his crew put me through were terrible... / But it's thanks to that suffering that I was able to find such wonderful friends!
Sanji: You're talking about me, right, Nami-san~?
Nami: There's no point resenting my past now; it's a part of who I am. That's why I'm not going to hate you just for being a fishman.
Jimbei: ..................
Nami: So please, don't start apologising for what happened to me!!
Jimbei: ..................
Nami: I've had some good times as well, you know? / I'm happy with how things have turned out!
Hachi: ......Nyuuuuuuu... Nami....!
Jimbei: ...Such kind words... / Words that I have done nothing to deserve...!
Nami: ?!

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Jimbei: You have my eternal gratitude...!!!
Franky: Uwooohhh~~~!! I feel your pain, big guy!! Jimbei, you're a real man!!! // That Tiger, too... And Otohime!! I love all you fishy guys~~~~~!!!
Nami: .........
Sanji: Oh, shut your face, Franky!
Jimbei: ...............!!
Nami: (.........!! He must have been suffering terribly...)
Sanji: And as for you...! / How long are you gonna stay asleep?!!!
Luffy: Buehh! // ...Hm? // ......Oh, right.........!!

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Luffy: So yeah, Jimbei!! What happened to the thief that Crybaby's mum captured?
Sanji: Did you sleep through the whole damn story?!!! That was right back at the beginning!!!
Nami: So your name's Shirahoshi, right~?
Shirahoshi: !
Chopper: Are you really friends with the Sea Kings~?!!
Caimie: N... Nami-chin!! Chopper-chin!! That's the Princess you're talking to!!
Shirahoshi: ...Yes... Ahh...!! I must apologise...! / All these memories of my mother are bringing tears to my eyes...!!
Nami: It sounds like she was an incredible woman.
Shirahoshi: ! // ......Yes, she was!! // It's strange, Nami-chin-sama... even though this is the first time we've met... / I feel as though we're friends already!
Caimie: Ahh...! Your Highness, "Nami-chin" is just a nickname -
Nami: Really? // I guess it could be because we grew up in similar circumstances...

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Jimbei: Now then, I apologise for the distraction... let us return to the matter at hand. / Allow me to confirm exactly who is present in the Royal Palace... / Hordy and his crew are currently occupying the Palace... // ...with His Majesty and a number of soldiers as prisoners... And four of your companions are still unaccounted for. // That's as much as we can say at the present stage...
Hachi: Nyuuu... Jimbei-san... // If Hordy's scheme is proceeding as planned... / ...then something even more terrible must be happening across the island right now...
Jimbei: ! // Hachi... of course! You have been spending time in the Fishman District... / Do you know of the details of Hordy's plan...?! // I always suspected that he was up to no good during the years he spent there after leaving the army... / But he made sure never to let me uncover what he was planning.
Hachi: Yes...... I know what he's planning...

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Hachi: Hordy hates the humans even more than Arlong-san ever did... / He was raised on all the resentment and hatred that our race have suffered... // But there is one important way in which he is very different from Arlong-san...!!! / Arlong-san detested humans, but also had a great respect for his own kind; he would never lift a finger against a fellow fishman. // But Hordy thinks nothing of victimising his fellow fishmen... // ...if they show sympathy towards the humans...!!! // This is the year of the Reverie, the Council of Kings that comes around once every four years... // And the Princes have gathered all those signatures...!! // This is the year when King Neptune should finally be able... // ...to declare to the world our people's intent to move Fishman Island to the surface...!
Jimbei: ...And Hordy means to put a stop to that?!!
Hachi: Nyuuu... No... his plans are much bigger than that...

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Chopper: Ahhhhhh~~~~~!!! // A giant Den-Den Mushi came out of the forest~!!
Den: That's a Visual Den-Den Mushi. It's going to activate a monitor...!
Monitor: *bzz... bzzzzzt*
People: ?!
Nami: Ahh!!
Jones: Ahem... *bzzzt*...
Nami: It's him!!
Jones: Ahem... People of Fishman Island...... // Can you hear me...? // I am the Captain of the New Fishman Pirates, from the Fishman District...
Jimbei: Hordy...!!!
Jones: My name is Hordy Jones...!!!
[Insert text: Hordy makes his move!!]
[Bottom text: Next issue, One Piece will be taking a break. It will be back in Issue 28.]