## One Piece Chapter 654, pages 10-11: Gam - Chapter: 654 - Pages: 10-11 - Characters: Thousand Sunny, Brook, Monkey D. Luffy, Straw Hat Pirates, Laboon ### Summary Page 10: The Thousand Sunny is swallowed into the White Strom. The sea becomes a tunnel of spinning white water, the crew screaming as the ship is carried through the vortex. Then the motion suddenly stops with a heavy impact. Brook cries, "Ehh?!!" while Luffy says, "We've stopped?!!" and asks whether they bumped into something. The ship has not been smashed, but it has been thrown into a new situation. The White Strom has spat them out beside a massive dark shape in the deep sea, and the crew's first reaction is confusion rather than relief. They survived the whirlpool, but now they are nose-to-nose with something even stranger. Page 11: Luffy sees the giant black whale before anyone else and screams, "Laboon!!!" Brook is stunned too. In the memory of Laboon, Luffy once promised, "Laboon! We'll travel right round the world and come straight back here!!!" and Brook remembers, "Laboon!!! You've grown so much...!!" The thought is impossible almost immediately. Laboon should still be back in the first half of the Grand Line, and he could not even pass through the hole in the Red Line with a body that size. The whale before them is enormous and scarred in a familiar way, but it is not necessarily the same whale. The encounter throws Luffy and Brook back to one of the crew's oldest promises.