## One Piece Chapter 459, pages 11-12: Death Doesn't Count as an Apology - Chapter: 459 - Pages: 11-12 - Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Laboon, Nico Robin, Brook, Usopp, Roronoa Zoro, Ryuma ### Summary Page 11: The crew remembers Laboon clearly. Luffy says, "We know..." and the memory rises of the whale at the entrance to the Grand Line. Someone explains, "It's not a mountain! It's a whale!" and another remembers, "At the entrance to the 'Grand Line,' the damn whale was there. He kept banging his head on the wall that divides the world." Robin quietly summarizes the promise: "'We'll definitely come back!' For those nakama who made that promise... waiting 50 years is..." The huge image of Laboon fills the page, mouth open in a mournful "BUOOOOO!!!" while Luffy stares in shock. What had once been a strange adventure at Twin Capes now becomes Brook's deepest wound and the reason his afro matters. Page 12: The Straw Hats recall how Luffy stopped Laboon from killing himself against the Red Line. They remember that Laboon heard the pirates had run away, refused to accept it, and tried to break through the wall. Luffy somehow persuaded him to stop by breaking through the wall himself, and now Laboon is alive, waiting for his nakama at that cape. Usopp is amazed: "That's an unbelievable story! They kept that promise for over 50 years!" Zoro thinks of the one that whale was waiting for and says, "To think... that one of those nakama whom Laboon was waiting for..." As the thought completes, the scene cuts back to Brook fighting Ryuma: the person at the heart of that promise is still struggling for his shadow and his chance to return.