## One Piece Chapter 621: Otohime and Tiger - Chapter: 621 - Pages: 0-15 - Characters: Kaya, Ninjin, Piiman, Tamanegi, Jinbe, Otohime, Neptune, Shirahoshi, Fukaboshi, Ryuboshi, Manboshi, Whitebeard, Arlong, Fisher Tiger, Macro ### Summary Page 0: The chapter opens with the cover story, "From Shipdecks Around The World Vol 8: Syrup Village." In Syrup Village, Usopp's old friends stand together outdoors and read a newspaper, smiling as the world catches up with the Straw Hats' return. The image is separate from the main Fishman Island flashback, but it keeps the wider world alive: the people connected to the crew are still following the news, reacting from their own homes. No main-story dialogue appears on this page. Page 1: Jinbe begins the flashback: "Let us take a step back in time... This is the Fishman Island of sixteen years past." In a busy street, a thief races away as the crowd screams, "Stop that thieee eeeef!!!" The thief shouts, "Outta my way!!! I've got a pistol here, you know!!!" and someone cries, "Somebody stop that thief!!! He just stole a small fortune offa me!!" The situation worsens when he grabs a child: "And a hostage, too!! So stay back, all of ya!!!" The royal guards panic as Queen Otohime rushes after him. "Your majesty!!!" "Please reconsider!!" "Please, stay back!! Your majesty!!!" They plead that it is their duty, not hers: "It is not right!! You cannot personally involve yourself in these matters!! That is our job, not yours!!" Page 2: The thief yells, "Don't say I didn't warn yaaa!!!" as he fires and runs. A pursuer pants, "Who is it now?!!! *Pant*... *Pant*..." but Otohime closes in without hesitation. The thief sees her and gasps, "Ehh?!" A shot cracks through the air with "WHOOSH," and Otohime is hit. The page turns chaotic: people scream "AAAAHH HHH!!!" while Otohime falls, blood and motion lines cutting across the street. Even wounded, she is still moving toward the criminal rather than away from him, and the people around her can only watch in horror as their queen throws herself into danger for a stranger's life. Page 3: Otohime's hand is badly injured, and she cries, "My hand!! AAAAAH HHHHH HHH!!!" The crowd shouts for a doctor: "Docto oor!!" The king's men are furious and someone says, "It's a compound fracture!!" Otohime answers, "I care not!!" The thief is stunned by the queen's refusal to think of herself. She is introduced formally as "Wife of King Neptune, Queen Otohime (Goldfish Mermaid)." The crowd whispers, "Queen Otohime!!!" and "It's the queen!!!" while the thief pants and asks, "The queen?!" The image establishes Otohime as physically fragile yet morally unyielding: she has been shot and crushed, but she still faces the man responsible. Page 4: Otohime cries out not in anger for herself, but in grief for what drove the thief to this. "Why would you stoop to committing such a vile act as thievery?!!" The thief snaps, "Shaddup!! I don't expect pampered royals like you to understand meeee!! I've got ten crying kids at home to provide for!!" Otohime keeps advancing despite the guards' pleas: "Your majesty!!! Please stop assaulting the criminal!" One guard warns, "You know how exceptionally weak your body is!!!" She answers, "I care not if my hand shatters into a thousand pieces! It is for this man's sake!!" Then she demands the truth from him: "Tell me!! If your children are raised on stolen money... Can they truly be happy?!!" She adds, "A man should only live a life that he can speak to his children of with pride!!" and then bows through tears: "And yet... I too must apologise ...!!" Page 5: Otohime breaks down before the thief and the crowd: "I am so sorry!!! Forgive me for failing to notice your suffering, even though we dwell in the same country...!" She takes his pain into herself, saying, "The pain that dwells in your heart ... is as a knife through my own ...!!!" The thief sobs, "Uuurghh...! I never... never wanted to do this...!!!" and another voice cries, "Ahhhhh!! Aaaahhhhh!! Truly, the ordeals that drove you to this were terrible!" A ruined shopkeeper says, "My shop was burned down by arsonists...!! All the money I had was stolen...!! I'm clean out of work...!! My debts just keep rising...! And I can't stand to see my children going hungry...!!! But I...!! I had no choice! There was nothing else I could do!!!" Otohime refuses revenge as a solution: "You cannot respond by doing the same yourself, or the chain of suffering will continue!!!" Page 6: Otohime's compassion transforms the crowd. The thief promises, "I'll turn over a new leaf!! Make a new life for myself!!" Others cry, "Thank you so much... for shedding tears for the likes of me!! Your majesty!!" Otohime answers, "Think nothing of it!! I wish you all the luck in the world!!" The people explain why she is beloved: "It's unusual enough for members of the royal family to even leave the castle and walk among the common people... Yet Queen Otohime cries genuine tears for her individual citizens a...