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Chapter's Events:
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"Everybody pull!! Even if we can't stop it…"
"We have to slow this ship down as much as we can…!!!"
"It may achieve next to nothing, but we have to do what we can!!!"
"So puuuuullll!!!" Thousands of island residents gathered around the heavy chains of the Noah, trying to pull with all the strength they had.
"Don't let the Noah go after her!!"
"Princess, you have to get yourself somewhere safe from harm!!!" They all agreed to do everything they could to keep the danger away from the princess.
"PUUUULL!!"
"PROTECT THE PRINCESS!!!"
"…pant pant Everyone…!!!" Shirahoshi's eyes filled with tears as she watched the scene unfold.
"Are they completely insane…?"
"As though they could move this ship a single millimeter…" Hody Jones mocked their futile attempts, then prepared to shoot his water bullets at them.
"HEY!!!"
"STOP THAT!!!" Luffy shouted, trying to stop him, but in vain.
"Huh?!"
"NGUAAHHHHHHHH!!!"
"AAAAARGHHHHH!!!"
"AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" Soon, many people started wailing and screaming in pain from the injuries.
"Worthless pieces of filth…!!!"
"It's thanks to idiots like you that the humans look down on our kind!!!" Hody Jones efficiently struck down hundreds of fishmen with his deadly attacks.
"…!!! Everyone!!! …!!! pant …pant…" Shirahoshi cried, unable to do anything to stop him.
"Why, that dirty…!!!" Even Luffy couldn't intervene in time, but he vowed internally to avenge them.
"I knew it!! The gate into the palace is wide open!!" Shirahoshi began swimming away from the island to put distance between the island and the Noah.
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Seeing Hody Jones slaughter the civilians, ordinary readers felt a surge of anger and hatred—they couldn't bear such scenes.
"These men and women did nothing wrong other than trying to protect their princess and their home, so why did that cursed bastard attack them!?" A mermaid erupted with rage.
"Unbelievable… Is this how fishmen grow up in Fish-Man District!? Filled with hatred even toward their own kind!?" A fishman from the public wondered with concern.
"That's right, Fisher Tiger and Jimbei should do something to guide the orphans there properly." Another fishman added.
"This is primarily King Neptune's responsibility," another remarked.
"You have a point. We don't want another Hody Jones rising from that cursed place. The so-called Fish-Man District must be cleansed, and the residential areas near the Noah must be removed."
"I agree, brother. The orphans there should be integrated into our island society, and the criminals among them must be handled cautiously. Those proven guilty of crimes should be placed in prison instead of left unchecked."
"…"
Seeing his people discuss the problem calmly and constructively filled Neptune with mixed emotions of joy. Fish-Man District had always been a heavy invisible burden on his shoulders. He had wanted to deal with it for a long time, but the society on the island always rejected any real integration initiative out of fear of the unknown.
After all, Fish-Man District was a lawless place, with a high proportion of criminals.
Now, thanks to the manga, the island residents were more open to solving the problem after witnessing the enormous danger… Hody Jones and his gang were a glaring example.
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"Your counterpart is complete trash. How dare he harm innocents in cold blood… Look at Luffy's expression. He is human! He despises your counterpart more and more."
Tiger pointed to Luffy's angry expression in the manga as he watched Hody Jones' massacre.
Fisher Tiger pointed in the manga book in his hand toward Hody Jones, not far away.
"Is this what you want? For a human to despise you for hurting your own kind?" Tiger asked calmly.
"No!! I don't want this! Of course, I don't want to hurt anyone from my race."
Hody answered, his face showing visible anger, mixed with the struggle of conflicting thoughts.
Fisher Tiger sat back down. He was using the same strategy with Hody that he had used with Arlong before—a method of correction by leveraging the false pride Hody felt, making him regret his counterpart's actions, or in other words, regret what he might be thinking of doing in the future.
He would even regret the victorious thoughts that came to his mind while reading the manga so far.
Of course, the moment Luffy defeated him would mark the turning point, but Tiger wasn't patient enough to wait for that moment.
"My counterpart refused human blood to survive… not because he hated humans, but because he hated living with gratitude toward a human he didn't know…"
"If the situation were reversed and we oppressed humans, a hot-blooded human like me would come and refuse to live with fish-man blood!"
"So what of it!?" Fisher Tiger shouted, catching the attention of many readers.
"My refusal of human blood is my stance alone and does not represent the entire race… The same goes for your hatred of humans, Hody. That is your feeling alone and does not represent an entire race!!!"
Hody Jones slumped in his seat as he listened to these powerful words.
"You are free to hate humans! But you are not free to harm your people in the name of that hatred!!!"
"Wake up and look carefully at the truth. This human called Luffy doesn't care about racial differences. Just like he will kick your butt as a fish-man, he will later kick the butt of another villain—whether human, giant, dwarf, long-armed, or anything… Because he is human! Humanity is not limited to humans; it is something shared across all races."
The listeners' eyes widened at this fiery speech. Some even filmed it and shared it online. Within minutes, Fisher Tiger's speech went viral like wildfire.
Otohime smiled with delight as she listened to Fisher Tiger's speech. Although he was apparently speaking to Hody Jones, he was actually speaking to everyone.
King Neptune and his ministers listened silently.
Suzan and her daughter Shyarly smiled too.
Tom and his wife Kokoro, his brother Den, Iceburg, and Franky—who was preparing to meet Vegapunk—all quietly absorbed Fisher Tiger's moving words.
After all, Fisher Tiger was speaking for an entire race. He even rejected what his counterpart had done—refusing human blood and choosing death.
Jimbei looked deeply at the back of the man he had always considered his older brother. The reason was simple: this man had cared for them since childhood, after everyone else had abandoned them, growing up in the cold Fish-Man District, where there was no warmth of affection.
Tiger had once told him that his counterpart lived honorably and died honorably, had done heroic deeds, and the only black spot in his history was that he had been a slave of the Celestial Dragons—something beyond his choice.
But now he sacrificed all of that and rejected what his counterpart did. The reason…?
Jimbei understood the reason, and his respect for his older brother grew even more.
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Upcoming chapter titles (spoilers):
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Chapter 967: I know you didn't do it, but I hate you.
Chapter 968: A Ship From the Past That Must Remain for the Future.
Chapter 969: Hatred for the Sake of Hatred!
Chapter 970: Ideologies Formed in Childhood.
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