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Who would have thought that the hatred between races was so intense in this world, where the inhabitants of the Four Seas specifically felt that they were living in a different world due to their ignorance of all these great facts about the true situation of their world.
Compared to the situations in the Grand Line, they were truly in bliss.
Through the manga, readers have been able to clearly see that the world was truly plunged into chaos.
Although the world was stable now, that was temporary, as the source of evil still existed in this world.
After seeing the amount of hatred that Hody Jones and his companions harbored for humans, readers felt chills. How much injustice and oppression had the Fishman race endured through generations for such a generation filled with pure hatred to form?
Just thinking about it made peaceful-natured readers among humans sigh with regret.
Unfortunately, among humans, there were Celestial Dragons who somehow gained authority 800 years ago. They were able to pass on this authority to their descendants, who now live in luxury, caring for nothing else. These humans, who considered themselves 'gods', were completely stripped of humanity. That's why slavery was encouraged more and more by them, and they were the biggest beneficiaries.
For a single mermaid to be sold for 70 million Berry, and an adult Fishman for 40 million Berry, greed caused humanity to disappear, even from ordinary humans who were not Celestial Dragons.
Thus, the tragedy of the Fishman race, in particular, escalated through the ages to reach the current miserable situation.
The Celestial Dragons, who had no logic, were already introduced in the manga.
But what allowed them to be so tyrannical has not yet been revealed.
What is the secret of the World Government? Ordinary readers were completely ignorant of these matters, after all, the Marine's power was no longer at the forefront, as it had been completely replaced by the Hunters.
As readers continued to read the manga, the facts were slowly revealed.
But currently, the Straw Hat Pirates were still in the midst of the Fish-Man Island arc. In the following scenes, Luffy was able to fulfill the mermaid princess's wish and safely deliver her to the Ocean Forest.
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Chapter's Events:
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[The Ocean Forest]
"WHOA!! THIS PLACE LOOKS PRETTY COOOL!!!" Luffy exclaimed in surprise.
"UWAAAHH!! THANK YOU SO MUCH, LUFFY-SAMA …! I HAVE ALWAYS… ALWAYS WANTED TO COME HERE…!" Shirahoshi wiped her tears as she thanked Luffy with genuine gratitude.
"MAYBE WE'LL BE ABLE TO REST AND HEAL YOU UP HERE…?" Chopper also felt relieved.
"AHH!! IT'S THE SUNNY!!"
"HEYY, FRANKY!! IS THIS WHERE YOU'VE BEEN THIS WHOLE TIME~~?!" Luffy and the others saw their missing ship, cheered excitedly.
"OUUwww!! IS THAT… LUFFY?!! HMMMM?!"
"WELL, HOT DAMN! THAT'S QUITE THE PINUP-GIRL YOU'VE BROUGHT WITH YOU!!" Franky's attention was also immediately drawn to the huge and beautiful mermaid.
"I'LL INTRODUCE YOU! THIS IS CRYBABY!" Luffy introduced her.
"CRYBABY, HUH?! I SEE! YOU'D BETTER GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER, LADY!"
"Y - YES… MY APOLOGIES… MY NAME IS SHIRAHOSHI." She said shyly.
"ROBIN SHOWED UP HERE A WHILE BACK, TOO. SAYS SHE'S LOOKING FOR SOMETHING. SHE WENT OFF INTO THAT BIG CORAL FOREST." Franky told Luffy about Robin.
"HUH…"
"LUFFY-KUN!!! I BARELY RECOGNISED YOU!! IT HAS BEEN QUITE SOME TIME!!"
At this moment, Luffy heard a familiar voice calling his name.
"JINBE?!! AHHHH!! IT'S REALLY YOU!!! THEY TOLD ME YOU WEREN'T HERE! I THOUGHT I WASN'T GONNA BE ABLE TO SEE YOU!!!" Luffy was surprised and jumped with joy.
"WHAT'S THIS? THEN, YOU DIDN'T COME HERE BECAUSE YOU GOT MY MESSAGE?" Jinbe thought Luffy had received his message and therefore came.
"BOSS JINBE-SAMA!" Shirahoshi called out.
"AH, PRINCESS SHIRAHOSHI… I DID NOT EXPECT TO SEE YOU HERE. IT IS A PLEASU…"
"PRINCESS SHIRAHOSHIIIIIIII?!!!" Jinbe's eyes widened in shock.
"BUT WHY ARE YOU HERE?!!" He asked hastily, as he didn't understand why she was there.
"HEY, FRANKY! I'M GONNA LOWER HACHI DOWN! COULD YOU GRAB HIM FOR ME?" Chopper said cautiously as he extended Hachi's injured body.
"HEY, IF IT ISN'T OCTOMAN! WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED TO YOU…?!"
"NYUUU.."
"HACHIIIIIIII?!!" Jinbe was shocked again.
"HOW DID YOU GET THOSE WOUNDS?! AND HOW IN THE WORLD ARE YOU HERE?! WERE YOU NOT CAPTURED ALONG WITH ARLONG?!!"
"NYUUUUU… JINBE-SAN?!"
"AHHH, MERMAID PRINCESS!! WHY, IN YOUR GLORIOUS PRESENCE…" Meanwhile, Sanji was in his own world, immersed in the beauty of the mermaid princess.
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Jinbe looked at this scene and couldn't help but laugh.
"Hohoho! It seems my counterpart was shocked twice..."
"I see that the Mermaid Princess holds great respect for you, Jinbe, just like her older brothers, the Princes," Tiger said with a smile.
This meant that Jinbe's position in the country was no less than his current one, as his great reputation and kindness enabled him to gain the recognition of Neptune and his family, so much so that he could enter Ryugu Palace whenever he wished.
"But I know why..."
"Your counterpart was a Shichibukai for years before the Summit War. Based on this status, the protection of Fish-Man Island was guaranteed."
As a Shichibukai, he had many authorities, and protecting the World Government was one of them. Attempting to harm Fish-Man Island was like disrespecting the World Government's face. That's why the title of Shichibukai was valuable to Fish-Man Island... and thanks to Jinbe, it even gained the protection of Whitebeard.
That's why Jinbe can be considered a more influential figure in the fate of an entire race than even Fisher Tiger, whose reason for being revered by the Fish-Men remains mysterious and has not yet been revealed.
The matter of the Sun Pirates, which was previously mentioned by Hachi, is also still mysterious.
At this time, the Sun Pirates had not yet been founded... Fisher Tiger had not yet gone to sea, had not been captured, and had not been enslaved by the Celestial Dragons, and therefore none of the subsequent events occurred... and they will never happen given the current circumstances of the world.
Fisher Tiger can go to the world above water freely and has not been caught by anyone, not only him but all Fish-Men. Their safety has already been guaranteed by the Hunters stationed all over the world, even in the domain of demons.
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In Ohara, Otohime felt sad for some reason as she saw Shirahoshi's tears in front of her mother's grave.
A tear fell from her eye and she quietly wiped it away...
"Her mother must have been a wonderful woman." Although she didn't know who Shirahoshi's mother was yet, as she hadn't been revealed yet, she felt it. The mermaid princess's mother, and the late queen of the Fish-Man Kingdom, must have been a great figure.
"Yes, the best proof of that is the great respect in Jinbe's tone when he spoke to her grave earlier," Olivia added.
Olivia had a guess about the identity of the late queen, as her eyes narrowed at Otohime's delicate form at this moment.
This feeling grew little by little about her guess every time she looked at Otohime.
"Could it be her?" Olivia wondered internally... She no longer read the manga in advance as she used to, which is why she didn't know the full truth yet.
Olivia now preferred to read the manga with everyone and enjoy discovering the events slowly with everyone. This made her feel happier.
She even stopped asking Rob about secrets. Rob used to spoil events for her, but she no longer liked to have events spoiled for her, so she stopped.
Everything about this arc was still mysterious to her until now.
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Back on Fish-Man Island, Neptune felt his heart twist in pain as he saw Shirahoshi's tears.
He was just like his counterpart; he wanted to cry in the same way to express his current feelings.
This scene made him completely collapse, even though he didn't have such a wonderful princess as a daughter yet, he felt an intense desire to cry with her at this moment.
Her sadness greatly grieved him.
"Oh, Shirahoshi... It seems your father is very weak; he couldn't protect your mother for your sake...."
"Perhaps that man taking her as his wife is indeed the right decision... He is more than enough to protect her from anything, even death..."
"But Shirahoshi... I hope he doesn't take you from me, too..." The internal struggle ended with many tears streaming down Neptune's face at this moment.
He was unwilling to have a future without Shirahoshi as his daughter.
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Upcoming chapter titles (spoilers):
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Chapter 933: Jimbei's Regret.
Chapter 934: Sun Pirates.
Chapter 935: Tiger and Otohime.
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BlackStar_BH:
Hello guys, I'd like to present to you my new fanfic, which I will be writing with the same passion as this one, but in a completely different style. It's a One Piece fafiction, yet it carries a lighthearted and exciting tone in every chapter. You can judge it for yourselves by reading the six chapters available so far.
Here is the synopsis of the novel:
One Piece: The Suicide Pirate!
I'm Clark… and I died by suicide.
There was no tragic reason—just the feeling that my life had lost all meaning.
But death wasn't the end… it was the beginning.
In the world of One Piece, I awoke with two absurd powers:
• [Returner's Clockwork Watch]: Sends me 24 hours back in time.
• [I Want to Become Just Like You]: Lets me copy any skill or ability… even Devil Fruits!
From that moment, my title was born: The Suicide Pirate.
A man who can die a thousand times… and return stronger every single time.
Luffy's Devil Fruit? If I want it, I'll take it.
Zoro's sword style? I'll master it.
Sanji's modified body? It will be mine.
Even the powers of the Emperors… won't escape my grasp.
But every return has a price… for my power itself is the greatest curse of all.
This is my journey across the seas—
a journey to carve my own legend, even if it means dying over and over again for it.