## One Piece Chapter 613, pages 0-1: The Mermaid Princess in Hard Shell Tower - Chapter: 613 - Pages: 0-1 - Characters: Vander Decken IX, Wadatsumi, Princess Shirahoshi, Neptune ### Summary Page 0: Chapter 613 opens with the title "The Mermaid Princess in Hard Shell Tower". The cover serial reads: "Short-Term Focused Serial 19 From Shipdecks Around The World Vol. 1: 'The News Coos Soar Across the Seas'". Above the ocean, News Coos fly in formation with bags and newspapers, carrying news across the world. The page does not enter the main Fish-Man Island scene yet, but it frames the wider world as news travels by sea and sky before the chapter cuts back to the locked tower where Princess Shirahoshi is about to become the center of danger. Page 1: At the Flying Pirates' ship, Vander Decken IX bellows for his enormous subordinate: "WADA-TSUMI!!!!!" A crewmate answers, "Nope, no response yet, Cap'n Decken!" Decken rages over the silence from the princess: "Has there still been no response?! Has Princess Shirahoshi replied to my letter yet?!" When told, "Uhhh... about ten years!" he seizes on the long wait as proof of an outside obstruction. "This must be the work of that detestable Neptune!! The fiend means to force Princess Shirahoshi into a political marriage!! I know it!!" he cries, convinced that Neptune locked her away in the steel tower to keep them apart. To Decken, this is romance; to everyone else, it is obsession. He declares, "Ah, the shame of it all!! Does he not see?!! The two of us are in love!!! I know it!!" and prepares another threat disguised as a proposal: "Once again, I shall send her... ...an axe embossed with the image of a rose...!!!" The giant puffer fishman Wadatsumi is identified as "Member of the Flying Pirates Oonyuudou Wadatsumi (Giant Puffer Fishman)."