## One Piece Chapter 697, pages 6-7: Dealings - Chapter: 697 - Pages: 6-7 - Characters: Sanji, Tony Tony Chopper, Trafalgar Law, Vegapunk, G-5 Marines, Punk Hazard Children ### Summary Page 6: With the children aboard, the Straw Hats prepare to move too. Sanji says, "OK, WE SHOULD SET SAIL TOO." There is relief in the report about the children's treatment: "THEY SAID THEY'LL CONSULT WITH VEGAPUNK ABOUT THE CANDY AND THE HEALING PROCESS." The answer comes with hope: "REALLY? THAT'S GREAT!" Then someone notices Law and asks, "HEY, IS HE COMING WITH US?" Law calmly reminds them that the alliance is still new information to some of them: "AH, RIGHT... YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE ALLIANCE YET." On the tanker, G-5 continues blocking the children, yelling, "WE ARE JUSTICE!! WE WON'T LET THE BRATS SEE THESE PIRATES!!" The children still cry out, "BIG BRO SWIRLY!!" and protest, "THE MARINES ARE BLOCKING THEM!! MOVE OUT OF THE WAY!!" The Marines double down: "RUN YOU GUYS!!! RUN IF YOU DON'T WANT TO DIE!!" and even threaten, "WE'LL LEAVE YOU ON THIS ISLAND IF YOU TRY TO THANK THEM OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT!!" Their final rule is absurdly strict: "ANYONE WHO WOULD SAY GOODBYE TO PIRATES IS A BAD KID." Page 7: G-5 keeps hammering the old lesson into the children: "GOT IT? PIRATES ARE EVIL!!! IT'S THE MARINES THAT REPRESENT JUSTICE!!" But the children have lived through something that refuses to fit that lesson. One of them cries that when they asked the pirates to save them, "THEY DID... EVEN THOUGH..." The words spill out through tears: "...THEY DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT US" and "THEY DIDN'T CARE THAT WE WERE GIANTS," yet they still came and got them out. Memories of terror and rescue overlap on the page. The children remember wanting to go home: "I WANNA GO HOME...!!" They remember being told, "WE'LL GO HOME SOON... JUST HANG IN THERE!!" On an island where there was nothing and where no one should have come looking, they did come: "ON AN ISLAND WITH NOTHING, WHERE NO ONE WOULD EVER COME FOR US..." "THEY CAME!!" The grief breaks into apology too: "I'M SO SORRY!! IF ONLY I'D FOUND YOU SOONER...!!" The children are not defending piracy as an idea; they are defending the people who reached them when no one else did.