## One Piece Chapter 613, pages 8-8: The Mermaid Princess in Hard Shell Tower - Chapter: 613 - Pages: 8-8 - Characters: Princess Shirahoshi, Monkey D. Luffy, Megalo, Vander Decken IX ### Summary Page 8: Once the immediate panic eases, Shirahoshi thanks Luffy: "I must thank you ever so much." She apologizes for the guards' behavior, saying, "I apologise for the rudeness of the guards just now... Please forgive them." She had never imagined he was the one who saved Megalo and asks, "Your name... is Luffy-sama, yes?" Luffy answers awkwardly, "Uh-huh." She then asks the question that matters to someone locked away from the world: "And you are a pirate... does that mean you are a bad person?" Luffy refuses to define himself for her: "...Hm? ...Uhhhh... I dunno. You can decide that yourself." She tells him his companions have been captured, and he answers with confidence: "Yeah... but don't worry. They'll never be able to keep my friends captured for long!!" Luffy asks about the axe, and Shirahoshi explains that it came from Vander Decken-sama, a man angry because she refused his marriage proposals. His cursed power, "Mato Mato," lets him target her from anywhere, so she can never leave the tower: "...as such, I am never permitted to leave this Shell Tower, for it would be far too dangerous for me to be out in the open...!!"