## One Piece Chapter 357, pages 17-18: Cutty Flam - Chapter: 357 - Pages: 17-18 - Characters: Franky, Tom, Yokozuna ### Summary Page 17: Franky refuses to move. Yokozuna cries, "GERO!!!" and the train roars forward while Franky braces himself on the rails. He shouts, "STOP, SEA TRAIN!!!!" and then, "I WON'T LET-YOU-GO!!! GIVE BACK TOM-SAN!!!" The words become a child's plea wrapped in a doomed act of defiance. Tom, inside the train, laughs through tears and pain: "TAHA!! ...!!...!!...!!" The laughter pulls him into memory. He remembers a smaller, abandoned Franky beside scrap and asks, "WHAT A PIECE OF WORK." Franky had answered, "I SEE!! YOU WERE ABANDONED, HUH!!" and Tom had laughed, "HEY!! YOU LAUGH TOO MUCH!!" The memory ends with Tom welcoming the boy: "OKAY!! COME LIVE WITH ME WITH A DON!!" In the present, Franky stands before Tom's train because that invitation made Tom his parent. Page 18: The train hits Franky. The cowcatcher slams into him on the tracks as Yokozuna sobs, "SOB..." and Tom's train keeps moving. Franky's thoughts turn into regret and need: "I... DON'T WANT TO MAKE SHIPS ANY MORE...!!! I CAN'T LOVE A SHIP THAT HURT SO MANY OF MY IMPORTANT PEOPLE...!!" But the deeper truth breaks through immediately after: "BUT TOM-SAN! MY GOAL IS STILL YOU!!!" He begs the man who taught him everything, "I WANT YOU TO COME BACK AND TEACH ME SOME MORE!!!" The impact is violent, but the emotional point is sharper than the injury. Franky does not reject shipbuilding because he hates ships; he rejects it because the ship he loved most, Puffing Tom, is carrying away the person who gave him a life.