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Pirate Fisher Tiger

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The chapter opens with the cover story, "From Shipdecks Around The World Vol 9: Syrup Village - Kaya, Student of Medicine." In Syrup Village, Kaya studies at a desk covered in medical books while Usopp's old friends crowd around her with loud, cheerful energy. The page is outside the main flashback, but it shows Kaya moving toward her own dream while the world follows the Straw Hats' news. No main-story dialogue appears on this cover page.
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The Sun Pirates finally find the eternal pose that will take Koala home. Someone says, "We finally found it... An eternal pose to Koala's home." The crew cheers, "Nyuuuuu uuu!! Koala!! You're gonna be able to go home!!" Koala, introduced as a former slave, stands in a new dress after the crew has cleaned her up. A crewmate laughs, "Ahaha hah! You look so different." Another reassures her, "And we got you a nice haircut as well! Trust me, your mother will be delighted." Koala is still uncertain: "I - I don't think this is really..." but the crew tells her not to complain after they went to the trouble of buying it for her.
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Koala immediately falls back into slave habits and says, "I - I think I'll clean up!" The crew tells her, "Nyuuuu!! You need to fix that habit of working whenever you're uncomfortable! This isn't Mariejoa, you know!!" Aladdin, introduced as the Sun Pirates' ship doctor and a former Neptune Army soldier, understands that she cannot simply stop. "Let her work if she wants to," he says. "There's no use in rushing her. This kind of trauma doesn't vanish overnight, you know!" Arlong sneers, "You tell him, Aladdin...!! I guess you former slaves understand each other pretty good, yeah?" The page keeps Koala's smile visible while showing that her fear has not truly left her.
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Arlong pushes his hatred onto Koala. "Go on, admit it!! Really, you want to kill the brat here and now, don't ya?!" he says. "She's a human!! No different from those monsters that kept you imprisoned!!!" Aladdin tells him, "Give it a rest, would you, Arlong ...?!" but Arlong keeps mocking Koala: "You should be more honest an' all, brat! What did your mother teach you, eh? Your parents look down on us just like the rest of the humans, right?!" He insists that human society teaches children to believe their race is the greatest and most splendid in the world, and that nothing will change unless someone puts them in their place. The crew has all seen human scorn in the three years at sea, but Arlong turns that experience into a reason to hate Koala before she has done anything.
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Jinbe gives a different answer to Arlong's hatred. "Certainly, some humans look at us with scorn. But others... I see something different in their eyes." He says, "It always seems to me... ...as though they are afraid of us." Koala asks, "Is it because we are pirates...? What is there to be so afraid of...?" and then reaches the idea Otohime has been preaching: "That's because... ...they don't know anything about you..." The thought echoes Otohime's words that Fishman Island still knows next to nothing about humanity as a whole, and reframes fear as ignorance. Koala then plays a simple guessing game on deck, pointing and saying, "There!!" while the others correct her, "Wrong! It's over here!" The page shows understanding being built through small, ordinary contact.
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Koala spends more time aboard the Sun Pirates' ship, and the story lets the change happen quietly. She walks with the crew through towns, watches fishmen and merfolk in ordinary life, sees them eat, shop, laugh, and argue, and shares space with people she was once taught to fear. No major speech drives the page; the panels show lived experience doing what speeches cannot. Koala's smile is still present, but it now belongs to days filled with food, movement, games, and shared travel rather than panic and forced labor. The crew becomes less like monsters in her eyes and more like people.
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A few weeks later, the Sun Pirates reach Koala's homeland, Foolshout Island. Tiger tells her, "Koala! Step out onto the shore. This is your homeland ...!!" He asks, "Which way is your village? I'll take you as far as the entrance." The crew breaks down emotionally behind them: "Ohhh, stop crying," someone says, but another sobs, "Guehhhh!! Don't go, Koala! Let's all keep sailing together!!" Others call after her, "You're a great kid!!! Even though you're a human!!" and "Take care of yourself!!" Koala smiles and promises, "I'll tell everyone in the village!! That lots of fishmen are really nice people!!"
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Koala runs toward the village, then keeps turning back to wave. Jinbe watches and challenges Arlong's certainty: "Try thinking about it for a second. What good is it going to do if one girl tells the villagers that fishmen are good people? Just like Otohime's pleas, her words will just fall on empty ears!!" Arlong snaps back, "Why, Arlong, you...!!" while someone mutters, "Dammit, Arlong ...!!" Jinbe answers from his own change: "Jimbei... you've changed an awful lot in these past three years." Below, Koala finally cries openly while waving, the tears no longer forced down by fear. Her farewell is small, but it is exactly the kind of fragile hope Otohime believes in.
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The farewell stretches across the cactus-filled road. Koala runs farther from the ship and closer to the village, repeatedly turning back, waving, and crying with a smile. The Sun Pirates watch her go in silence. The absence of dialogue makes the separation heavier: Koala's home is near, but the crew that protected her cannot belong there. Tiger stands behind her like a guardian at the edge of a world that may never welcome him. The page closes the emotional promise of the journey before revealing how cruelly that promise will be repaid.
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The trap springs immediately. A Marine officer steps forward and declares, "My name is Rear Admiral Strawberry, of Marine HQ!!!" He explains, "We received word from the residents of a certain island ...that you would be visiting this place!!" The villagers Koala trusted have agreed to overlook the possession of a girl who rightfully belongs to the Tenryuubito in exchange for allowing the Marines to cause only a slight disturbance. Strawberry tells Tiger, "As you should be well aware ...you are guilty of two crimes. Your raid... ...and your flight." Koala's homecoming has been used as bait, and the island that should have ended her nightmare has delivered Fisher Tiger into Marine hands.
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Tiger refuses to fall even under concentrated fire. Marines shout, "What's with this guy?! He just won't go down!!!" and "Don't let your guard down... This is the man who successfully raided Mariejoa all on his own!!" He keeps cutting through the ambush with terrible strength. Then the Sun Pirates arrive, and the Marines recognize them in alarm: "Boss T?!!" "Rear Admiral!!" "It's the Sun Pirates!!!" Someone asks, "Where the heck is all this strength coming from?!!" The rescue begins in chaos, but Tiger has already taken the wounds that will decide his fate.
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The Sun Pirates escape by stealing a Marine ship. Arlong roars, "Curse you, Marineeees!!!" while the crew shouts, "Our ship's done for!!!" and "We're stealing one of the Marine vessels!!!" Back in Koala's village, someone hears the distant noise and asks, "What's all that noise?" Another answers, "It's nothing..." The narration gives the cost: "As a result of the ambush... ...the Sun Pirates were taken unawares, and their captain mortally wounded... However, they succeeded in stealing a Marine vessel and escaping to open waters ..." Koala has reached home, but the crew that brought her there is bleeding out beyond the horizon.
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Aboard the stolen ship, Tiger's crew realizes he will die without a transfusion. "Boss!! What are you saying?!!!" someone cries. The doctor warns, "You've lost too much blood!! If you don't have a blood transfusion soon, you're not going to make it ...!!! Your blood type is extremely rare... There's nobody in our crew who is a suitable match!!" Then he offers the only solution: "That's right! Human blood is no different from our own!!! We can use it to save you!! It's your only chance!!!" But Tiger looks at the stored blood and asks, "But... the blood samples stored on this ship... are human blood... are they not...?!!" When the doctor says, "I will begin the process immediately," Tiger screams, "I forbid ittt!!! I don't want to live on with their blood in my veins!!!"
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Tiger rejects the blood with hatred and shame. "That blood is tainted!! ...It's the blood of those who have scorned us all their lives!!!" he says. "I refuse to be in their debt!! I will not accept their pity...!!! I will never submit... ...to the humans!!!" Then he reveals the secret behind his final voyage: "I didn't want you... to know about this... on my final voyage... Not long after I set out... *pant* ... I was captured!!!" In memory, Neptune asks, "What in the world did you witness on your latest journey...?!!!" Tiger answers, "Humans, your majesty." He admits the truth he hid from his own men: "They took me to Mariejoa... I was there for years...!!!"
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Arlong crawls back toward Foolshout Island, consumed by revenge, but Borsalino is waiting. The island is labeled Koala's homeland, and Borsalino is introduced as "Marine HQ Vice Admiral Borsalino (the future Admiral Kizaru)." He asks, "So you're Arlong, ehh? Now, why ... would you decide ... to come crawling back here?" Arlong answers, "I'm here to slaughter every last one of the humans who sold out Big Bro T!!! I'll go to the island that sent the report, too...!! Fisher Tiger is dead!! Murdered by you and your inferior kind!!!" Borsalino replies, "Ohhhh? Is that right? Dead, is he...? At any rate... I think you need to come along with meee!"
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Tiger confesses the deepest contradiction inside him: "I was... ...a slave!!!" The crew is shocked as he continues, "What I witnessed there... ...was the madness of humans... I managed to escape with my life... but I could not abandon the other slaves I had witnessed all around me..." He says that he has lived according to his own selfish wishes and that this caused great trouble for Otohime's designs. Yet even here, he recognizes her path: "But Otohime... is right! Peace for everyone - that is what we should all strive for!!" Tiger saved others because he could not leave them behind, but he admits that his own wounds have never healed.
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Tiger begs the crew not to pass the tragedy forward. "That's why I beg of you!! Don't tell anything of this to the people of Fishman Island!! Of the tragedy that has befallen us!! Or our rage towards the humans!!" He looks at Koala's memory and says, "But... we're not the ones... who can really change things for our people... It's only the next generation... children like Koala, who still know nothing... that can do that...!!!" He understands the truth, but his body and heart cannot follow it: "There are countless kind-hearted humans out there in this world!! I understand that!! And yet... as we die and vanish from this world...!! We leave nothing behind us but resentment and hatred!!! My mind can see the truth, but the demon in my heart stands firm!! My body... refuses to accept their blood!!! It's too late for me...!! I can't ...love the humans anymore ...!!!"
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The crew begs him to live. "Don't say such things, Boss!! You have to live!! Please!!!" they cry. Another says, "Boss!! No matter what you might say ... There is still life left in you!!!" But Tiger answers the only way he can. "As far as all the slaves you released are concerned... you are our saviour, and we owe you a lifelong debt," someone tells him, and Tiger says, "That makes me happy... You are the hero of Fishman Island!!" In the final panels, Tiger's old vow echoes: "If there's nobody else who'll challenge me, then I will take charge of the Fishman District!! My name is Tiger!! And I will protect all those beneath me!!!" The narration closes: "Thus ended the life... ...of Fisher Tiger, captain of the Sun Pirates..."
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The chapter leaves the Sun Pirates with Tiger's death as an unresolved wound. Koala has been returned home, but the humans of her island betrayed the man who protected her. Arlong has been seized by Borsalino before he can take revenge. Jinbe and the surviving crew carry Tiger's final request: do not tell Fishman Island about the tragedy or the rage toward humans. Tiger dies as a man who freed slaves, spared enemies, protected Koala, and still could not accept human blood into his body. His death becomes the contradiction at the heart of the Fishman Island conflict.
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This is an Usopp Gallery Pirates fan-art page. It contains reader-submitted One Piece artwork, including a large Fishman Island/Ryuuguu Palace style illustration and smaller character drawings. The visible text is mostly non-English scan text and fan-gallery labeling, so the page is useful as a publication extra but does not add direct plot dialogue or new chapter-story information.
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