## One Piece Chapter 622, pages 16-18: The Sun Pirates - Chapter: 622 - Pages: 16-18 - Characters: Koala, Fisher Tiger, Jinbe, Arlong ### Summary Page 16: Koala apologizes over and over. "I'm very sorry! I'll work hard! I'll clean the ship without resting! So please don't kill me! I won't cry... no matter what happens... so please don't kill me!" Tiger asks quietly, "What are you doing...?" and a crewman says, "Child... you're bleeding..." Koala answers, "Yes...!! But I want to see my mother, so I have to be brave and stay on this ship..." She believes if she fails, they might kill her: "If I don't work hard, you might kill me, right? I promise I'll be useful, so please don't kill me...!!" Jinbe and the others understand what slavery has done to her. "She's a slave through and through, this one..." someone says. Another adds, "She must have grown up seeing her fellow slaves getting killed just for crying, or for not working hard enough... Learned to close herself off from the world, always frightened that she might be next...!!" Page 17: Tiger makes his decision. "Bring the brat... ...to my personal cabin!!" His crew stares as Koala keeps scrubbing, but he takes her away. Someone asks, "Boss!! What are you going to...?!" Tiger gives the order: "Now bandage her!!" Then he brings out the brand. "It's rough, but it's the only way. That brand brings back memories of things best left forgotten." Koala's eye widens as the heated mark approaches, and the brand hisses "SIZZLE" into her skin. Tiger is not punishing her. He is covering the mark of slavery with the symbol of the Sun Pirates, making her one of the people they protect rather than a piece of property. Page 18: Koala wakes in terror and apologizes automatically: "Ah - I lost consciousness...!! I'm sorry!! But look - I didn't cry! So please don't kill me!! I swear I won't cry, no matter what -" Tiger cuts through the horror of that conditioning: "And why shouldn't you cry?!!! Listen, kid!! We're not the same... ...as those slavedriving monsters!!" He tells her the rule of his crew plainly: "My crew ...kills nobody ...!!!" Then he throws himself into the sea with a "SPLASH" and tells her, "Watch." When the crew returns, Tiger says, "Let's get moving, men. We're taking this girl... ...back to her home!!!" For Koala, the Sun Pirates become the first adults in years to prove that strength does not have to mean cruelty.