## One Piece Chapter 627, pages 8-9: You Have My Gratitude - Chapter: 627 - Pages: 8-9 - Characters: Neptune, Otohime, Shirahoshi, Vander Decken, Fukaboshi, Ryuboshi, Manboshi ### Summary 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.