## One Piece Chapter 613, pages 1-2: The Mermaid Princess in Hard Shell Tower - Chapter: 613 - Pages: 1-2 - Characters: Vander Decken IX, Wadatsumi, Princess Shirahoshi, Neptune ### Summary 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'!!!"