## One Piece Chapter 618, pages 5-7: Proposal - Chapter: 618 - Pages: 5-7 - Characters: Vander Decken IX, Shirahoshi, Monkey D. Luffy ### Summary Page 5: The flying figure resolves into the man who has tormented the princess from afar. The crowd gasps, "C... could that be... Vander Decken?!" Vander Decken descends with a crazed grin, yelling, "I've found you noooo!!! I know it!!! Bahohhohoh!!! Shirahoshiiiiiiii!!!" Shirahoshi recognizes him at once: "Vander Decken-sama...!!!" The people panic at his return: "He's finally shown himself here on Fishman Island!! After all this time in hiding..." They urge the princess to escape. "Princess, you have to flee!! We'll take care of him!!!" Page 6: Vander Decken turns the plaza into a stage for his obsession. "Answer me this, Shirahoshi!!! Say \"yes\", and you won't have to die!!! Bahohoh!! My dear Shirahoshi...!! Marry meeee!!!" The people recoil at the absurdity of it: "The man who's tried to take the princess' life countless times is brazenly proposing to her!!" Shirahoshi answers with blunt honesty: "You're not my type...!!" The crowd cannot help reacting to the understatement: "Is that the issue here?!" Page 7: Shirahoshi's rejection shatters Vander Decken's theatrical affection into murder. "How dare you trample all over my ten years of longing...?!!!" he screams. "If you will not love me... then your very existence is an insult!! You would choose another... over me?!! Die, Shirahoshi!!!" The crowd pleads, "Princess Shirahoshi!!! You have to flee!!!" But Luffy stops her with a command that sounds reckless until the reason follows: "Don't run away, crybaby!! Stay right where you are!!!" The islanders turn on him: "What the heck are you talking about?! Are you one of Decken's cronies?! Are you telling the princess to die?!!" Luffy answers plainly, "If you go too far away... I won't be able to protect you!!!"