## One Piece Chapter 909: Seppuku - Chapter: 909 - Pages: 0-15 - Characters: Orlumbus, Nekomamushi, Marco, Edward Newgate, Marshall D. Teach, Tama, Shanks, Edward Weevil, Miss Bakkin, Monkey D. Luffy, Franky, Usopp, Nico Robin, Kin'emon, Roronoa Zoro, Kurozumi Orochi, Kaido, Ryuma ### Summary Page 0: The cover story appears under "Chapter 909: Seppuku" and continues "Dropping in on the Lives of the Straw Hat Grand Pirate Fleet, Vol. 39: Orlumbus Arc." At "4:00 PM," Orlumbus enters "a pirate's first battle" and orders, "Open fire!" while cannon smoke fills the sea. A note also advertises the upcoming fan book details. This is not part of the main Wano story, but it is useful canon side-story material because it continues Orlumbus's path as part of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet. Page 2: Behind the Reverie, the story moves to the New World, where Nekomamushi's ship approaches a remote island. The minks complain that "navigator skills are crazy" and that Master's face is way scarier than either of theirs. They are waiting for Marco the Phoenix, the man who once sailed with the Pirate King according to one confused guardian, and they wonder how long they must wait in the ruins. The guardians correct each other, snapping that Marco is the man who comes back with Marco the Phoenix and that the villages are not to be wandered into. A sidebar explains Marco's place in history: he was once called the right hand of Whitebeard, the captain of the formidable Whitebeard Pirates, but after Whitebeard's death his crew tried and failed to avenge him against Blackbeard in the Payback War. Since then, the crew scattered and their whereabouts became unknown. Page 3: The ship enters a hidden little village beyond the cave behind the waterfall. The guardians are told that this is not the place for a troop of warriors to go trampling about, and one admits that the master's face is only scarier when he is angry. The place itself is quiet, tucked away in the mountains, with small houses and fields visible through the mouth of the cave. One guardian says Marco's smile is cute, and another agrees, "True." Then Marco appears with a pipe in his mouth and the calm, tired presence of a doctor who belongs here. The scene shifts the former Whitebeard commander away from war and piracy and places him in a secluded settlement that depends on him. Page 4: Marco finishes treating a large beast and explains that the patient should be all right now, but warns not to push it: "My flame of restoration can't bring about huge changes in other beings." The villagers cheer over Marco's magic, but he corrects them that he has only treated the injury and raised the healing speed a little. The patient should be able to fly around by tomorrow, though Tama is told sharply, "I said tomorrow! Don't fly right now!" Marco is introduced as former Whitebeard Pirates First Squad Captain and ship's doctor. Around him, villagers immediately bring more complaints: bad backs, old knees, and a little brother who keeps bullying someone. Marco smiles and waves, but the page shows he is not living in retirement so much as constant service. Page 5: Marco tells Nekomamushi that the village was built by Pops, Whitebeard himself. The country had been too poor to pay the Celestial Offering, so the World Government refused to let it join the alliance. Like most unaffiliated countries, it fell into lawlessness, with pirates and kidnappers running amok and wretched orphans filling the streets. Whitebeard's own family had already died, but this island was his homeland. Even after he went to sea and became a pirate, he worried about it for his whole life, secretly sending "dirty" money and supplies while hiding his identity and status. The page reframes Whitebeard's treasure not as hoarded wealth, but as a lifetime of support quietly sent home. Page 6: Marco explains what happened after the Summit War. Since Whitebeard had spent his life protecting this village with whatever mattered to him, the remaining crew decided they would protect it too. They fought a war of repayment against every Blackbeard pirate who came calling, but Blackbeard had taken Whitebeard's power for himself, and they could not teach that thankless upstart a lesson. Nekomamushi realizes the village is Whitebeard's last memento, and Marco confirms that Red-Hair Shanks built a tomb nearby. Marco says Pops was stingy as hell, not because he was selfish, but because every last penny he had went to this place. He laughs through emotion: Whitebeard drank other people's drinks and never treated them to food even once, and all of them knew why. Page 7: Marco then brings up the current threat: the Shichibukai Edward Weevil, who claims to be Whitebeard's son and goes after anyone related to Whitebeard. Marco says he cannot speak about Pops and Weevil's mother, Miss Bakkin, because he only heard that she sailed on the same pirate ship with Whitebeard roughly thirty years ago, or closer to forty. He doubts Weevil would bel...