## One Piece Chapter 520, pages 15-17: The Gorgon's Eye - Chapter: 520 - Pages: 15-17 - Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Boa Sandersonia, Boa Marigold, Kuja spectators, Boa Hancock, Marguerite, Sweet Pea, Aphelandra ### Summary Page 15: Marigold rushes in, asking, "What are you doing, Mari!?" while Sandersonia says, "I can't, Sonia...!! ...Right now, we're..." A spectator notices the real danger: "Look!! Lady Sandersonia's clothes have been burnt and her back is bare!!" Another warns, "If that man moves away, the Gorgon's Eye will be exposed!!" Luffy is holding himself over Sandersonia's back, shielding it from the crowd with his body. Sandersonia realizes they are "being protected... by that man...!!!" The page reveals why Luffy told everyone not to move: he is preventing the secret mark on Sandersonia's back from being seen. The hidden "Gorgon's Eye" that gives the chapter its title is not a monster power but the shameful back mark the sisters would rather die than reveal. Page 16: Luffy, still covering Sandersonia's back, remembers Hancock's earlier words: "We would rather die than let anyone see what is on our backs...!!!" He tells Sandersonia plainly, "You don't want anyone to see what's on your back, right? So don't move." Hancock's expression shifts as she realizes what he is doing. She immediately stands and orders, "We're done here!! Before the Gorgon's Eye is revealed!!! Everyone, leave the coliseum!!!" The crowd erupts in confusion and panic, with Marguerite's friends crying, "Oh no...!!!" and the spectators beginning to move. Hancock's command ends the public execution not because Luffy is defeated, but because protecting the sisters' hidden mark has suddenly become more important than killing him. Page 17: The crowd rushes "Out of the coliseum!!!" while women shout, "Hurry, hurry!!" and "We're going to be turned to stone!!!" Others panic, "It's the Gorgon's curse!!!" Sandersonia, still covered by Luffy, asks in disbelief, "I was fighting against you... why are you helping me?" Luffy answers simply, "What you don't want to be seen has nothing to do with our fight." He keeps shielding her back while the arena empties. Hancock lowers her head and wipes at her eyes or face with a trembling hand, the sound "PORO..." suggesting tears or an emotional break. The page closes the battle on Luffy's compassion rather than victory: he protects the secret of enemies who tried to execute him, and Hancock can no longer read him as merely an insolent man.