Van Der Decken catches up to Shiraboshi. So a filthy, creepy, murderous, and not to mention ugly pirate is not her type. What's so strange about that? Summary: At the beach at Coral Hill, the residents are surprised when Shiraboshi emerges from Megalo's mouth and they automatically blame Luffy for kidnapping her. Despite Chopper's warnings, Sanji turns around and becomes petrified after seeing Shiraboshi. While Luffy is busy checking on Hachi and Chopper is busy with Sanji, the residents quickly tie up the pirates. Suddenly, Van Der Decken arrives on his flying coral to ask for marriage, but Shiraboshi tells him that he's not her type. Decken is angered by the rejection and pulls out his axes, but Luffy (still tied up) grabs Decken with his legs and slams the fishman to the ground. With Decken incapacitated for the moment, Shiraboshi unties Luffy and the two along with Chopper, Sanji and Hachi climb aboard Megalo to head to the Sea Forest. Wadatsumi (Decken's giant nyuudu crew member) appears to head off Luffy's group, but Luffy's group fly by after Luffy punches Wadatsumi in the teeth. Outside Ryuuguu palace, Nami has sneaked out and met up with Keimi. Choosing to leave the fighting to Zoro, Nami wants to learn more about the history of the Fishman Pirates and thus tells Keimi to take her to the Sea Forest to meet Jinbei. Meanwhile inside the palace, Zoro catches Hodi with a powerful slash. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Not a lot of big things happening, but some notable developments nonetheless. I was a little surprised that Sanji didn't explode into a cloud of bloody mist after seeing Shiraboshi, but apparently Oda now has a new and slightly less lethal gag for the him. I'm also a little surprised that Chopper and Luffy allowed themselves to be tied up by the residents of Coral Hill. Given that it's unlikely Luffy and Chopper would willingly let themselves be tied up, I can only conclude that the residents are at the very least very speedy with tying people up. Maybe they could have handled Van Der Decken too lol. Van Der Decken wasn't that strong which wasn't unexpected, but things will turn in his favor a little if he can use his powers on Luffy. Speaking of "not that strong", it looked like Zoro might have KOed Hodi in the last page. It'll be curious to see if Hodi is actually that weak or if he'll pop pills and turn the tide in his favor. Nami did mention that Hachi said there were stronger people than Hodi, so maybe Hodi isn't the central villain. As for Nami, I thought she would be trying to get her comrades out of the jam, but she just went off on her own. On the other hand, maybe leaving the fighting to Zoro isn't such a bad idea, and maybe Nami is trying to dive into the core issue and find a solution. From the feed of A Product of Wasted Time
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