## One Piece Chapter 613: The Mermaid Princess in Hard Shell Tower - Chapter: 613 - Pages: 0-15 - Characters: Vander Decken IX, Wadatsumi, Princess Shirahoshi, Neptune, Monkey D. Luffy, Fukaboshi, Ryuuboshi, Manboshi, Megalo, Roronoa Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Brook, Caimie, Hody Jones ### Summary Page 0: Chapter 613 opens with the title "The Mermaid Princess in Hard Shell Tower". The cover serial reads: "Short-Term Focused Serial 19 From Shipdecks Around The World Vol. 1: 'The News Coos Soar Across the Seas'". Above the ocean, News Coos fly in formation with bags and newspapers, carrying news across the world. The page does not enter the main Fish-Man Island scene yet, but it frames the wider world as news travels by sea and sky before the chapter cuts back to the locked tower where Princess Shirahoshi is about to become the center of danger. Page 1: At the Flying Pirates' ship, Vander Decken IX bellows for his enormous subordinate: "WADA-TSUMI!!!!!" A crewmate answers, "Nope, no response yet, Cap'n Decken!" Decken rages over the silence from the princess: "Has there still been no response?! Has Princess Shirahoshi replied to my letter yet?!" When told, "Uhhh... about ten years!" he seizes on the long wait as proof of an outside obstruction. "This must be the work of that detestable Neptune!! The fiend means to force Princess Shirahoshi into a political marriage!! I know it!!" he cries, convinced that Neptune locked her away in the steel tower to keep them apart. To Decken, this is romance; to everyone else, it is obsession. He declares, "Ah, the shame of it all!! Does he not see?!! The two of us are in love!!! I know it!!" and prepares another threat disguised as a proposal: "Once again, I shall send her... ...an axe embossed with the image of a rose...!!!" The giant puffer fishman Wadatsumi is identified as "Member of the Flying Pirates Oonyuudou Wadatsumi (Giant Puffer Fishman)." Page 2: The axe does not strike where Decken expected. It comes flying back toward the Flying Pirates with violent force as someone shouts, "It came flying back this way, Cap'n!!" and another complains, "You missed good and proper!" The weapon smashes through the ship while the crew screams, "GUAAH HHH!!" Vander Decken IX stands in the chaos, introduced as "Captain of the Flying Pirates Vander Decken IX (Bullhead Shark Fishman)," and insists, "Fools!! I never miss a target! I know it!! Bahohaho hohohohu!!" His speech becomes a theatrical death sentence aimed at Shirahoshi: "Princess Shirahoshi!!! No matter how I roam these ocean depths... I have yet to find another woman as vast and beautiful as you!!" If his love cannot be fulfilled, he says, she must die: "But I cannot allow you to live your life with another!! If that should happen, you must die!! Shirahoshi!! Either swear your undying love for me!! Or choose death!!!" To him, the whole matter reduces to one monstrous ultimatum: "Yes, your life is a choice... between 'death or marriage'!!!" Page 3: The scene jumps to Ryugu Kingdom's royal palace, where Hard-Shell Tower shakes with Shirahoshi's terrified cries. Guards shout, "It's coming from Shell Tower!!" and "That's Princess Shirahoshi's voice!! She's crying!!" Someone asks, "What happened to the guards at the tower entrance?!!" while another realizes, "Why is nobody by the princess's side?!!" The cause is the recent change of guard: "I must apologise!! There was a mix-up with the changing of the guard!!" Inside, Shirahoshi covers her eyes and screams, "UWAAAA AAAAAA AAHHHH HHHH!!!!" She calls for help: "Father!! Fukaboshi-oniisaaama!! Ryuuboshi-oniisama!! Manboshi-oniisama!!!" At her feet, Luffy throws up his hands, baffled and hungry, protesting, "Hey, hey, hey!! What's the matter?! I'm just a pirate who was looking for some food!!" Shirahoshi mistakes the intruder for an assassin and cries, "A human has entered my chambers to make an attempt on my life!!" Luffy snaps back, "I didn't know this food was yours, okayyy?!!" Page 4: The rose-marked axe comes ripping into Hard-Shell Tower. Luffy notices it with a sharp "!?" as the blade tears through the door and flies toward Shirahoshi. She barely has time to murmur, "Eh...?" before the weapon slams into the giant mermaid's body and pins her with a brutal impact. The page is almost all motion and impact: Shirahoshi groans, "NNNNGG HHAAAA HHH!!!" while the panels show the axe embedded against her and Luffy thrown into urgent action. The silence of the tower breaks into shock marks and heavy sound effects as Shirahoshi realizes this was not Luffy's attack but the kind of danger that has been reaching her room for years. Page 5: Luffy grabs the incoming axe and redirects it, sending it crashing away instead of letting it harm Shirahoshi. Outside the opened tower door, palace soldiers rush toward her and shout, "Princess Shirahoshi!! We are on our way!!!" and "Princess Shirahoshi!!!" Shirahoshi sees the tower door has opened and whispers, "...!!!" while one guard calls, "Look - the do...