## One Piece Chapter 613, pages 5-6: The Mermaid Princess in Hard Shell Tower - Chapter: 613 - Pages: 5-6 - Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Princess Shirahoshi, Megalo ### Summary Page 5: Luffy grabs the incoming axe and redirects it, sending it crashing away instead of letting it harm Shirahoshi. Outside the opened tower door, palace soldiers rush toward her and shout, "Princess Shirahoshi!! We are on our way!!!" and "Princess Shirahoshi!!!" Shirahoshi sees the tower door has opened and whispers, "...!!!" while one guard calls, "Look - the door is open!! What's going on?!!" The soldiers panic, asking, "Are you alright?!!" Luffy, breathing hard after the save, asks the obvious question: "Why is there an axe?! Where did it come from?!" Shirahoshi sits shaken and silent, while the guards crowd the doorway shouting, "Are you alright?!!" The threat has passed for a moment, but the open door means the princess's guarded isolation has been broken. Page 6: The guards pour into the room, terrified that Shirahoshi was attacked. They ask, "Are you hurt at all...?!!" and, seeing Luffy in her grasp, cry, "Ahhhh! What are you doing?!" Shirahoshi protects him by insisting, "It was nothing, really...!!" and explains, "I... I apologise for causing you alarm...!! ...I think ...I must have had a bad dream, that is all...!!" The guards remain suspicious: "Was there an intruder?!" and "We were so worried when we heard your plaintive cries! Who on earth opened this door?!" Shirahoshi whispers to Luffy, "Let me goo!!" while he tells her, "Shhh!! Be quiet...!!" At the bottom, the guards reveal the wider situation: Luffy is the pirate who saved Megalo, and they believe the case has become complicated. Luffy, hanging upside down, mutters, "Hm...?" while a guard admits, "Ah, yes. There is something else that I should speak to you about..."