## One Piece Chapter 909, pages 5-6: Seppuku - Chapter: 909 - Pages: 5-6 - Characters: Marco, Nekomamushi, Edward Newgate, Marshall D. Teach, Shanks ### Summary Page 5: Marco tells Nekomamushi that the village was built by Pops, Whitebeard himself. The country had been too poor to pay the Celestial Offering, so the World Government refused to let it join the alliance. Like most unaffiliated countries, it fell into lawlessness, with pirates and kidnappers running amok and wretched orphans filling the streets. Whitebeard's own family had already died, but this island was his homeland. Even after he went to sea and became a pirate, he worried about it for his whole life, secretly sending "dirty" money and supplies while hiding his identity and status. The page reframes Whitebeard's treasure not as hoarded wealth, but as a lifetime of support quietly sent home. Page 6: Marco explains what happened after the Summit War. Since Whitebeard had spent his life protecting this village with whatever mattered to him, the remaining crew decided they would protect it too. They fought a war of repayment against every Blackbeard pirate who came calling, but Blackbeard had taken Whitebeard's power for himself, and they could not teach that thankless upstart a lesson. Nekomamushi realizes the village is Whitebeard's last memento, and Marco confirms that Red-Hair Shanks built a tomb nearby. Marco says Pops was stingy as hell, not because he was selfish, but because every last penny he had went to this place. He laughs through emotion: Whitebeard drank other people's drinks and never treated them to food even once, and all of them knew why.