## One Piece Chapter 518: Coliseum - Chapter: 518 - Pages: 0-18 - Characters: CP9 members, townspeople, Monkey D. Luffy, Boa Hancock, Boa Sandersonia, Boa Marigold, Kuja warriors, Marguerite, Sweet Pea, Aphelandra, Kuja spectators, Kikyo, Bacura ### Summary Page 0: The chapter opens with the title text, "Chapter 518: \"COLISEUM\"." The cover story continues as "CP9 INDEPENDENT ACTION REPORT VOL. 25: \"HOMETOWN.\"" The CP9 members move through a wooded path toward a tall, narrow tower rising above the trees. Several townspeople or onlookers appear startled around them, and the agents' silhouettes and distinctive shapes fill the foreground as they approach the place identified as their hometown. The tower stands isolated in the distance with birds in the sky and dense trees on both sides, giving the cover a quiet homecoming atmosphere after the CP9 group left Saint Popla by ship. The lower edge of the image is partly cut by the beginning of the next story page, but the cover story caption and chapter title remain clear. Page 1: Sandersonia and Marigold rush into the bath chamber in panic, shouting, "SISTER!!!" and "WHAT HAPPENED, SISTER!?" Inside the steaming room, Luffy stands awkwardly across from Hancock while the sisters stare at him in disbelief: "WHO IS THAT...!? A MAN!?" and "WHY IS A MAN IN THIS COUNTRY...!!?" Sandersonia orders, "TAKE THIS ROBE, SISTER...!!" while Marigold demands, "JUST WHAT HAPPENED HERE...!!?" Hancock is shaken beyond her usual composure. Luffy raises both hands, stammering, "NO, NO... I JUST..." but Hancock's face is pale with shock as she says, "HE SAW..." and then, in a close-up of terror and anger, "MY BACK...!!!" The page frames the intrusion not as simple nudity but as the violation of the sisters' hidden mark, the secret Amazon Lily protects with the Gorgon curse legend. Page 2: The Gorgon Sisters react with horror. Hancock tells Luffy coldly, "WELL THEN, YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO DIE." Luffy protests, "EH!? WHY!? I JUST SAW HER BACK...!! I FEEL LIKE I'VE SEEN THAT SOME-WHERE BEFORE..." Hancock answers with the weight of the secret: "WE WOULD RATHER DIE THAN LET ANYONE SEE WHAT IS ON OUR BACKS...!!" Luffy, confused and cornered, asks, "THAT...!! WHY!? WHO ARE YOU!? WHY!?" Hancock does not explain. She raises her hands into a heart and says, "TAKE WHAT YOU SAW... TO YOUR GRAVE!! \"MERO MERO MELLOW\"!!!" The heart-shaped beam launches through the bath chamber toward Luffy. He reacts with surprise, "EH? NORO NORO!?" because it resembles a familiar slow beam to him, but the sisters expect it to petrify him as it does anyone whose heart is charmed by Hancock. Page 3: Luffy braces as the heart beam passes over him and cries, "THE NORO NORO BEAM!? DAMN, I'M SLOWING DOWN!!" He closes his eyes and says, "SLOWING..." but nothing happens. Hancock watches in suspicion and confusion. Luffy lowers his guard, still puzzled, while a tiny question mark hangs between him and the sisters. Hancock tries again from the far side of the bath, calling, "\"MERO MERO MELLOW\"!!!" Another heart wave sweeps over Luffy as he yells, "UWAAA!" Yet again, he remains flesh and blood rather than stone. The page lingers on the impossible failure: Luffy is neither charmed nor petrified, and he misunderstands the attack as a slowing technique rather than a beauty-based petrification. Hancock, who is used to instant submission, has found someone who does not respond to her power in the expected way. Page 4: After the second failed Mero Mero Mellow, everyone freezes in a silent cloud of question marks. Hancock grips her robe and demands, "WHY ISN'T HE TURNING TO STONE...!? HE SAW ME IN THE BATH... YET HIS HEART STILL ISN'T MOVED!?" Marigold insists, "THERE'S NO WAY THAT'S POSSIBLE! SISTER!! YOUR BODY IS SO BEAUTIFUL THAT IT CHARMS MEN AND WOMEN, BOTH YOUNG AND OLD!!" Sandersonia guesses, "HIS FEAR OF DEATH MUST BE OVERWHELMING HIS LUST. IT'S PATHETIC, BUT HE'S A LUCKY MAN...!!" Luffy, still not grasping the emotional stakes, says, "I DUNNO WHAT'S GOING ON, BUT I'M GETTING OUT OF HERE!! I JUST WANTED TO SEE SOMEONE IMPORTANT!" He tries to explain that he needs to meet someone important so he can get a boat and ride out of the island, but the sisters only see a man who saw what must never be seen. Page 5: Luffy flees the bath tower, leaping from high above the castle as someone shouts, "HE JUMPED... FROM THIS HIGH UP!!" Hancock, wrapped in her robe, blows a kiss and says, "CHUU," warning, "YOU WON'T ESCAPE!!" The kiss becomes a heart-shaped projectile with "GYAKIN" and she fires, "\"PISTOL KISS\"!!!" It slams into Luffy like a bullet, making him cry, "UHH!!!" as he tumbles through the air. Luffy is shocked: "WHAT!? THAT WASN'T A BULLET!?" Below, the Kuja notice the intruder: "AN INTRUDER!! IT'S THAT MAN!!" and "CAPTURE HIM!! KUJA PIRATES!!" Other voices ask, "A MAN!? WHY IS A MAN HERE!?" and answer, "Y... YES!!" Luffy has escaped the bath chamber only to be exposed to the whole island, with Hancock's attack and the Ku...