## One Piece Chapter 424, pages 8-9: Escape Ship - Chapter: 424 - Pages: 8-9 - Characters: Nico Robin, Kokoro, Monkey D. Luffy, Sanji, Tony Tony Chopper, Nami ### Summary Page 8: Robin stands before Kokoro and understands who saved them. "IT WAS YOU," she says. "I WONDER WUT CAUSED LERE APPARENT DEATH..." Kokoro remarks, and Robin remembers, "I MET YOU AT THE SHIFT STATION. I REMEMBER YOU." The shock turns into recognition: "IT'S YOU, RIGHT? THE NAKAMA THAT PIRATE KING BRAT CAME TO RESCUE..." Kokoro says. Robin admits, "I DIDN'T IMAGINE... THAT YOU WOULD CAUSE SOMETHING LIKE THIS..." while Kokoro laughs and says maybe it will come true after all. Robin smiles softly: "FUFU." Behind them, Luffy's words echo in memory: "DON'T GET IN OUR WAY!!! OUR NAKAMA ARE WAITING FOR US!!!" The rescue has brought Robin back to the people who came for her. Page 9: The truth about Kokoro detonates through the crew harder than the flood did. Sanji, Chopper, and the others stare as someone yells, "MERMAIDS DON'T EXIST!!!" and another screams, "GYAAAH, IT'S REALITY!!!" Sanji rejects it with all his strength: "IDIOT!! SHE HASN'T SAID SHE'S A MERMAID YET!!! DON'T GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAM!!" Kokoro calmly says, "I'M A 'SHIRAUO' MERMAID." That only makes the panic worse. Someone shouts, "NO~~~!!" while the old legend is explained: dugongs are mistaken for mermaids, mermaids split their tail fins into two when they reach age thirty, and after that they can live on land. The beautiful dream Sanji imagined underwater is replaced by Kokoro's laughing, very real presence.