## One Piece Chapter 653: The Hero's Hat - Chapter: 653 - Pages: 0-17 - Characters: Kokoro, Madame Shyarly, Camie, Hody Jones, Monkey D. Luffy, Fishman Island, Shirahoshi, Tony Tony Chopper, Sanji, Brook, Zoro, Neptune, Minister of the Right, Tamatebako, Big Mom, Nico Robin, Nami, Minister of the Left, Straw Hat Pirates, Usopp, Franky, Jinbe, Fukaboshi, Ryuboshi, Manboshi, Thousand Sunny, Shanks, Portgas D. Ace, Silvers Rayleigh, Eiichiro Oda, Mr. 3 ### Summary Page 0: The cover page gives the chapter title, "The Hero's Hat." The cover story reads, "From Shipdecks Around The World Vol 35: Icefish Mermaid Kokoro-san Spends A Day Off In Style." Kokoro relaxes underwater with an umbrella and a bottle, smiling broadly while fish swim around her. This is cover-story material, separate from the main Fishman Island farewell. Page 1: At Mermaid Cafe on Coral Hill, the mermaids tell Madame Shyarly that Luffy and his friends are leaving Fishman Island soon. Shyarly answers, "I see. You should go and see them off." The mermaids ask if she will go too, and she says, "Will do!" but the cafe still needs cleaning. Shyarly says that with Hody out of the way, customers should return soon enough, and she needs everyone's help making the cafe enjoyable again. Camie notices Shyarly stepping away and calls, "Madame!" while the others tell her, "Leave it to us, Madame!!" Page 2: Shyarly stands before the shattered crystal ball and says she is done with fortune-telling. The prophecy she once saw was "Straw Hat Luffy causing the destruction of Fishman Island," a future she would rather never have seen. She admits, "If my foretelling was wrong, just this once... then nothing would make me happier." Camie defends Luffy, saying he would never do such a thing. One of the mermaids explains that Shyarly's prophecies have never failed before, but that they are imprecise about timing: a vision might happen the next day, a year later, or even longer. Shyarly apologizes for doubting Camie's friend and says they can now trust "the Straw Hat boy." Camie brightens and answers, "That's right...!!" Page 3: At the harbor, Shirahoshi cannot hold back her tears. She cries, "Uwaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!! Are you really all going to leave the island already, Luffy-sama?!" She begs them to stay another day, another week, even another year, because they have only just properly become friends. Chopper points out that she really does end up crying every time they see her, and Shirahoshi apologizes, promising to stop being such a crybaby. Sanji is moved to tears by the sight of the mermaid princess crying at their departure and says they should stay another year after all. Brook sings that she could wake up bright and early and say "Good mor-ningyo!" but Sanji snaps at him for calling her "nosebleed-kun" and "marimo-head" gets thrown into the argument with Zoro. Page 4: The crew's chaotic farewell continues. Sanji tells the ship's cook he will teach him what happens if he makes an enemy of the cook, while another voice challenges him to bring on anything "from poison to razor blades." Meanwhile, Neptune and the ministers still worry about the Tamatebako. The Minister of the Right thinks they ought to tell the Straw Hats there was a bomb concealed in the box Luffy sent as a gift to Big Mom, but Neptune says they cannot possibly break the news now that the box has already gone. Someone hopes Big Mom will forgive them if they promise to give her all the treasure they ever find, while Robin asks whether the bomb might fail to go off. The royal palace chooses cautious optimism: maybe, in such a humid palace, the bomb could already be useless, and there is no guarantee Big Mom will open it herself. Page 5: Nami receives a strange new Log Pose. It has three separate needles, and the minister explains that it is for use in the New World. He warns, "Trust me, you don't want to try voyaging with only a single needle to guide you...!" Nami is told to compare it with the Log Pose she used along the first half of the Grand Line. Her old log seems settled, but one needle on the new pose is still moving. The minister explains that from here on, all logs will settle within half a day. The new device is not decorative; it is necessary because the seas ahead are far more dangerous and unstable than anything they have navigated so far. Page 6: The minister explains the New World navigation rules. In the Grand Line, the crew could proceed by allowing a single Log Pose to attune to the magnetic field of the next island, but in the New World "even the magnetic fields cannot always be trusted." Sometimes the next island's magnetic field may vanish entirely while they are out in open water, leaving them unable to reach their destination. Nami asks what the point is of having three needles. The answer is that each of the three needles on the Log Pose will attune to a different island in the waters ahead. One needle is moving shakily, just like the old Log Pose, while the other two a...