## One Piece Chapter 627: You Have My Gratitude - Chapter: 627 - Pages: 4-20 - Characters: Hody Jones, Jinbe, Otohime, Neptune, Minister of the Left, Shirahoshi, Vander Decken, Fukaboshi, Ryuboshi, Manboshi, Nami, Sanji, Luffy, Arlong, Franky, Fisher Tiger, Chopper, Brook, Zoro, Usopp, Pappug, Hachi ### Summary Page 4: In the chaos after Queen Otohime is shot, the guards report that they have taken out the sniper. They declare, "This is the culprit, no doubt about it!!!" Hody appears with the dead body and, when someone calls out "Jinbe-san!!!" and asks who the fiend is, orders them to hide the body. The people are horrified at the cruelty of ruining all of Otohime's efforts. Hody stands before the crowd as if delivering the truth, but the page frames his arrival as the beginning of a lie being planted. Page 5: Hody tells everyone to stop, insisting that the dead man was no mere pirate and that "this is... the truth." He raises the corpse and announces that "this human... has murdered... our queen!!!!" Jinbe tries to stop him, shouting "Hody!!!" but the accusation is already spreading. The dead sniper is presented to the wounded, grieving crowd as proof that a human killed Otohime, and Hody's eyes burn with satisfaction as he turns private murder into public hatred. Page 6: The accusation takes hold. The crowd cries that the man who murdered Queen Otohime was human, asking what they did to deserve this and saying humans have shattered their efforts to live together in peace. Others say humans stole the life of the person they loved above all else. Rage turns into despair: "Damn human!!! Your death won't bring Queen Otohime back to us!!!" Even as some ask whether there is no god and call it too cruel, the image of the dead human lets the crowd's grief harden into the exact hatred Otohime feared. Page 7: At Ryugu Palace's Shell Tower, Neptune locks himself away. He orders the door locked tight and not opened until his murderous desires have passed. The Minister of the Left explains that the culprit was wielding a gun, so soldiers fired on the human, and says that if the culprit had been unarmed, Neptune would have murdered him. Neptune understands Otohime's words in his head, but his heart still refuses them. He says no one knows where the chain of hatred begins; children merely become part of it with each new act of murder, their eyes growing dry and cold. Page 8: Neptune admits the contradiction inside himself. He has avenged many comrades on the battlefield and taken the lives of humans who made themselves his enemy, so why must innocent Otohime die while he lives on? His heart refuses to accept being denied the chance to kill the murderer of his wife. Yet he knows he has no right to continue what she began while full of contradictions. The words around him state the central truth of the chapter: both fish-men and humans are filled with contradictions, and there are some things only a warrior can protect. Page 9: A new incident interrupts the mourning. A love letter addressed to Shirahoshi appears, declaring, "I have fallen in love with you. I know it is scary me! Vander Decken." This is already the fifth letter, and the letters keep following Shirahoshi wherever she goes. Neptune orders that the children not be taken to the funeral because the assassin may still have accomplices nearby, and also commands that Vander Decken be captured at once. The threat around Shirahoshi begins almost immediately after Otohime's death. Page 10: At the Ocean Forest, Fish-Man Island gathers for Otohime's funeral beneath her portrait. The people stand in mourning while the monitor crackles: "People of Fishman Island..." Neptune, still away from the crowd, listens as the image of his dead wife presides over a sea of grieving citizens. The funeral is public and massive, but the royal family is fractured by danger, with Shirahoshi and her brothers kept away because of the assassin and Vander Decken's threat. Page 11: Prince Fukaboshi addresses the funeral through the monitor. He says his mother told him they could still reach the light of the sun, but their scars may run too deep to heal before the next Reverie, only two years away. Another Reverie will come in six years, and another in ten. Fukaboshi speaks not as a child giving up, but as an heir accepting the long burden Otohime left behind. The people listen as he begins turning grief into a promise rather than revenge. Page 12: Fukaboshi declares that he, Ryuboshi, and Manboshi will fulfill their mother's final wish, even if it takes their entire lives. He says they will cast aside the signatures that survived the fire for now, because using them immediately would sway too many people's hearts while the wound is raw. One day, when the scars in their hearts have healed, they will start again from the beginning. He asks the island to join them once more in their dream of the sun. Page 13: Ten years pass. Fukaboshi, Ryuboshi, and Manboshi have never wavered, while Neptune...