Jinbe sits down next to Koala and asks her what makes humans afraid of fishmen. Koala simply replies that it is because humans don't know anything about fishmen. Jinbe remembers Queen Otohime saying the same thing about humans. He then tells Koala there could be some change if she got to know them better, to which she agrees. The scene changes to Koala playing with Hatchan where he hides something in one of his six hands and she has to guess what hand it is in. The pirates are next seen in a town, carrying supplies to their ship, with people looking at them with scared looks. Hatchan is then seen bringing up a giant squid to the surface, much to Koala's shock. It then begins to snow, and everyone celebrates. Later, everyone is eating and having a good time.
A few weeks pass, and the crew arrives at an island called Foolshout Island. This island is where Koala's home town is located. Macro and Gyaro say tearful goodbyes and Kuroobi tells them to control themselves. Tiger asks where her village is, saying he will take her to the entrance. Koala says goodbye to the crew and everyone waves back. She then leaves with Fisher Tiger, playfully holding his hand. Arlong then comments that Koala will grow up to be like any other human. Jinbe and Macro both tell him to stop. Arlong tells Jinbe he has changed over the last three years, and asks him if it really makes a difference if one person believes that fishmen are good people, saying Otohime's beliefs fell on deaf ears the same way. Meanwhile, Tiger and Koala have arrived at her village. Everyone is stunned to see she has returned, and her mother starts crying. She runs to her mother as Tiger stays where he is. Koala and her mother hug while everyone else gives Tiger mean or uncomfortable stares. Tiger turns to leave and waves goodbye without looking back. When Koala waves back, he turns around to wave. After getting a little ways away from the town, he is intercepted by Rear Admiral Strawberry. Strawberry tells him that they were tipped off that he would be coming to this island, saying even the people in Koala's village were okay with the Marines being there. The Marines are willing to overlook the fact that Koala was property of the World Nobles, and charge Tiger with evasion and assault.
Back at the ship, the Sun Pirates hear gun shots coming from the direction of the village. They then look out to sea and Chew exclaims that they are surrounded by Marines. The Marines start firing and Jinbe orders everyone to abandon ship and make for the ocean floor, realizing Tiger is in trouble. The scene changes back to Tiger and the Marines. Tiger is on one knee and covered in blood. One Marine exclaims that he just won't fall, while another reminds him that Tiger was the one who attacked Mariejois. Tiger then attacks a soldier, knocking the gun from his hand and sending him into a rock. The Sun Pirates call out to him, and someone alerts Strawberry that they have arrived. Strawberry simply comments that the pirates have been quite the topic of conversation recently. While Jinbe is leading one faction of the Sun Pirates to fight the Marines, Arlong is still under water with the rest of the crew, saying they will steal a Marine ship to compensate for theirs being destroyed. Back at the town, Koala asks her mother if she heard something just now. Her mother, without looking at her daughter, simply replies that she had not.
There is a narration saying that Fisher Tiger was critically wounded from the ambush, but that the crew was able to steal a Marine ship. Inside the ship's sick bay, Hatchan cannot understand what Tiger is saying. Aladdin says that he is losing too much blood and they need to perform a blood transfusion. Unfortunately, no one in the crew had the same blood as Tiger, as his was incredibly rare. Someone asks if the blood stock on the ship was human blood, and Aladdin remembers that humans and fishmen have the same blood, and tells Tiger they can use human blood to save him. Aladdin is about to start the transfusion, when Tiger yells at him not to put human blood in him. He calls it dirty blood that has the hatred of fishmen flowing through it and he does not want to owe anything to humans. With tears in his eyes, Tiger cries out that he will not give in to humans. Tiger then tells them something he had been keeping secret from them. The last time he left, he was never on a voyage, he had been captured. He had spent years at Mariejois. He tearily bellows that he had been a slave. No one can believe what they are hearing from their captain. Tiger describes what he had seen as 'human madness." He had barely escaped with his life and could not abandon the other slaves. He then tells them to listen carefully. He tells them that he always lived by his beliefs, making things truly difficult for Otohime's ambition as a result. He admits that Otohime is right, that everyone should try and live in peace. The ones who can change the world are people like Koala who don't know about hatred. He begs the crew not to tell anyone about what he told them about their rage or their tragedy. He knows the world is full of kind-hearted humans, but that they are a dying breed, and soon all that will remain is hate. He tells them that he knows all of this, but a demon has taken his heart, which would make his body reject the human blood. Crying hysterically, he tells them that he has tried, but could never love a human.
Jinbe begs him not to talk like that, saying he has to live. Aladdin tell him that all the slaves he freed owe him a debt they will never be able to repay, saying he is still the hero of Fishman Island. Tiger tells him he is happy to hear that. Tiger remembers when he took control of the Fishman District, right before he dies. The crew is crying uncontrollably. The chapter goes into narration, saying that the curtains have closed on the life of Fisher Tiger.
Some time later, Arlong went back to Foolshout Island to seek revenge on the humans that betrayed his captain. He was however, attacked and beaten by Vice Admiral Borsalino. An enraged Arlong, with tears in his eyes, exclaims that he is going to kill all the people here who sold out his captain, and then kill everyone on the island that initially tipped off the Marines, saying Tiger was killed by bottom feeders. Borsalino pretends to be interested in Tiger's death, and then tells Arlong that he is going to take the fishman with him.
Chapter Notes
- Kaya and Merry are shown for the first time after the timeskip. What appear to be countless suitors are trying to get Kaya's attention while she is studying, and Merry is trying to push them away.
- Arlong shows a more paranoid side of himself, fully believing that all humans tell their children that they are superior to fishmen.
- Koala explains the reasons why humans are afraid of fishmen is usually because they don't understand them.
- The crew's doctor, Aladdin, a former soldier of the Neptune Army and slave, is introduced.
- The Sun Pirates return Koala to her hometown, Foolshout Island.
- It is revealed Strawberry was a Rear Admiral during this time and was the one who led the brutal battle that caused Fisher Tiger to suffer critical blood loss.
- The Sun Pirates lose their ship.
- Fisher Tiger refuses to take a blood transfusion, believing it to contain all the hate towards fishmen, due to it being human blood.
- Fisher Tiger reveals that he was a former slave.
- The leader of the Sun Pirates, Fisher Tiger, after admitting that Queen Otohime was right, dies.
- Vice Admiral Borsalino captures Arlong when he returns to Koala's hometown to avenge Tiger.
- Borsalino shows that he already ate the Pika Pika no Mi, having shot a laser beam at Arlong.
- Arlong is seen crying for the first time.
- It is revealed that practically everything the New Fishman Pirates believe about Fisher Tiger was wrong:
- They believed humans refused to give Tiger blood when he needed it, when in fact Tiger refused to accept human blood to save his life.
- They believed Tiger went off to promote fishman superiority and slaughter humans, when in fact he was trying to abolish slavery and made sure none of his crew killed a human.
- They believed his ideals were against that of Otohime's, where in fact Fisher Tiger fully wished that Otohime's ideals of humans and fishmen coming together would happen.
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