## One Piece Chapter 618: Proposal - Chapter: 618 - Pages: 0-16 - Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Roronoa Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Tony Tony Chopper, Nico Robin, Franky, Brook, Shirahoshi, Hatchan, Vander Decken IX, Megalo, Wadatsumi, Jinbe, Camie, Hody Jones, Arlong, Neptune ### Summary Page 0: The chapter opens on a festive color-spread title page, Proposal. The Straw Hat crew fill a lively town scene with food, music, dancing, and bright movement around them, a celebratory pause before the chaos of Fishman Island resumes. Luffy sits at the center of the commotion while the crew spreads through the busy setting around him, each member adding to the playful crowd energy. No story dialogue appears on the page. Page 1: The color spread continues in full color: the Straw Hats are caught mid-celebration amid lanterns, food stalls, costumes, and a dense festival crowd. The scene emphasizes the whole crew together, smiling, eating, posing, and moving through a bright public celebration. It is an atmospheric chapter image rather than a plot page, with no readable story dialogue. Page 2: Panic erupts in the plaza as the people cry, "Shirahoshi is being kidnapped right now!!!" Luffy, still treating the giant mermaid princess like a troublesome friend, snaps, "Crybaby!! Why did you get out of the shark?!" Shirahoshi immediately breaks down: "I... I'm so sorry, Luffy-sama! Please don't get angry with me... Uwaaahhhh!" The crowd takes the tears as proof of Luffy's wickedness: "He made the princess cry!! This pirate is pure evil!!!" Nearby, Chopper desperately blocks Sanji from looking back. "Don't do it, Sanji!! Don't you dare turn around!!" Sanji, hearing everyone say "princess," realizes what might be behind him: "Everyone keeps saying \"princess\"... you don't mean..." The others warn him, "That's right! She's right there! So don't turn around, Sanji, no matter what!" Sanji trembles at the idea: "You'd better not be saying that the mermaid princess is standing right behind me!!!" Chopper reminds him, "An ordinary mermaid was enough to nearly kill you... If you see the mermaid princess, you'll be dead for sure!!!" But Sanji's dream overwhelms his self-preservation. "The mermaid princess... that most wondrous of all mermaids, said to rival even the pirate empress, the world's finest beauty... is standing right behind my back...?!! How could I bear to live knowing that I let such a chance slip through my fingers?!" With tragic resolve, he declares, "Chopper... I choose to fulfill my dream, and go to my death!!!!" Chopper can only yell back, "I thought your dream was to find all blue!!" Page 3: Chopper screams, "Don't do it, Sanji!!!!!!!!!" Sanji turns anyway, and the sight of Shirahoshi strikes him like a revelation. In his mind, he whispers, "Ah... Even my wildest imaginings pale in comparison... She is... magnificent...! No work of art could hope to compare... This is... ...true beauty...!!!" The shock does not produce a normal nosebleed this time: he stiffens into stone while hearts and impact marks burst around him. Chopper cries, "He turned to stone eeeee!!!" In the confusion, Luffy turns back toward Hatchan: "Anyway, Hachi!! Who the heck did this to you?! Tell me!!!" Hatchan only groans, "Nyu-uu..." Shirahoshi, frightened by the shouting and the crowd, asks, "L... Luffy-sama... What should I...? Uwaaah hhh!" Chopper, examining Sanji's bizarre condition, panics over the cause: "This is a totally new symptom! Is it because of the Okama blood in his system?!" Page 4: The islanders close in. "We've got you now!!!" they shout. "Straw Hat Pirates!!! Your villainy ends here!!! Don't take the people of Fishman Island lightly!!!" Luffy, annoyed rather than frightened, demands, "Hey!! What are you playing at?!!" Someone recognizes Hatchan and accuses him too: "I remember you too, now!! You're one of those fiends from Arlong's lot!!" Shirahoshi tries to explain through tears, "E - excuse me... It isn't like that... Luffy-sama was only..." But the crowd keeps speaking over her: "It's all right, princess!! We'll see that these fiends are all executed..." Luffy notices something incoming: "Hm?" The bystanders shout, "Hey, you guys!! Something's flying right this way!!" Others dismiss it: "What?! There's no point trying to distract us with ridiculous lies!!" Shirahoshi confirms the danger: "Huh?! Th - there really is something flying this way!!" The plaza looks up in alarm: "Ehh?!" Page 5: The flying figure resolves into the man who has tormented the princess from afar. The crowd gasps, "C... could that be... Vander Decken?!" Vander Decken descends with a crazed grin, yelling, "I've found you noooo!!! I know it!!! Bahohhohoh!!! Shirahoshiiiiiiii!!!" Shirahoshi recognizes him at once: "Vander Decken-sama...!!!" The people panic at his return: "He's finally shown himself here on Fishman Island!! After all this time in hiding..." They urge the princess to escape. "Princess, you have to flee!! We'll take care of him!!!" Page 6: V...