## One Piece Chapter 613, pages 4-5: The Mermaid Princess in Hard Shell Tower - Chapter: 613 - Pages: 4-5 - Characters: Princess Shirahoshi, Monkey D. Luffy, Vander Decken IX ### Summary 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 door is open!! What's going on?!!" The soldiers panic, asking, "Are you alright?!!" Luffy, breathing hard after the save, asks the obvious question: "Why is there an axe?! Where did it come from?!" Shirahoshi sits shaken and silent, while the guards crowd the doorway shouting, "Are you alright?!!" The threat has passed for a moment, but the open door means the princess's guarded isolation has been broken.