## One Piece Chapter 649, pages 15-16: Dance of Sea Breams and Flounders - Chapter: 649 - Pages: 15-16 - Characters: Neptune, Joyboy, Nico Robin, Fishman Island, Noah, Shirahoshi, Sea Kings, Ocean Forest ### Summary Page 15: Neptune explains Joyboy. The man known as Joyboy lived in the surface world during the Blank Century, eight hundred years ago at least, and the passage was addressed to a mermaid princess who lived on Fishman Island at that time. It is said to be an apology for breaking a promise Joyboy made with Fishman Island, though the details are not clear. A legend passed down along the royal line says that one day an individual will appear to fulfill the promise in Joyboy's place. Trusting that legend, Neptune and his predecessors protected Noah for generations. That is their side of the promise: once the promised day arrives, the great ship Noah will finally fulfill its purpose. Page 16: Robin connects the legend to what happened above the island. She says she heard that, once the incident was over, the heavily damaged Noah was carried away to the Ocean Forest by Sea Kings. She asks whether Joyboy had some kind of ability to control the Sea Kings. Neptune says no: it was not Joyboy who possessed that power, but the mermaid princess to whom he apologised. As he suspected, Princess Shirahoshi has the same power and appears to have fully awakened it for the first time today. Robin then reveals that two years earlier, on an island in the sky, she read a Poneglyph that told of the location of an Ancient Weapon and indicated that the weapon was here, on Fishman Island. She asks whether the mermaid princess who lived in Joyboy's era could have been known by that name.