Minister of the Right

What stands out first about this advisor is how thoroughly he resembles a seahorse rather than a typical fishman. A coiled orange tail replaces the usual fishtail, ridges trace his spine and the edges of his cheeks, and his snout pushes forward in front of his face. Earlier in life his hair sat shorter and darker, with a scruffier finish and no beard at all.

For dress, he wears a jacket whose cuffs widen dramatically, each sleeve stamped with a pair of circles above a band. He keeps a katana sheathed at his left hip and grips a polearm patterned after a trishula, its head fusing a curved cutting edge with a thrusting point, which sets it apart from the standard weapons the soldiers of the Neptune Army carry.

Few characters take their work as gravely as he does, and he holds others to that same standard, once dressing down Neptune for wandering off from the palace on a whim. Time, too, he watches closely; finishing a talk with Shirahoshi, he noted that a full five minutes had slipped by.

Back when he attended Queen Otohime, he championed her cause completely and ached to see her labors yield so little. Discretion runs deep in him as well. Shamed by the theft of the Tamatebako's contents a decade prior, he personally fitted the chest with an explosive triggered to fire the instant it was reopened, and he confided this to no one, not even his king, until long afterward.

In her lifetime, Otohime relied on this minister as a bodyguard, and he once cautioned her that her body was too delicate to wrestle a thief, counsel she waved away. He shadowed her daily rounds of pulling survivors from wrecks, addressing crowds, and gathering names, his spirits sinking as residents rescinded the signatures they had already given. After a damaged ship delivered a wounded World Noble, Otohime treated the man and went with him to the surface, coming home a week later holding a paper that changed everything. Townsfolk began signing in earnest; when one box filled, the minister produced a bigger one and told her to let her happy tears flow. Then disaster struck. Fire consumed the signature box, a shot killed Otohime, and Hody's lie pinned the murder on a human, gutting the island's hopes. The ministers grieved at her funeral and watched Fukaboshi address the public over a broadcast.

By the time the Straw Hats reached Ryugu Palace, the theft of the Tamatebako's contents had already passed into memory, the culprit never caught, though the minister had quietly armed the chest as insurance. He and his counterpart scolded Neptune for leaving the castle undefended, then relayed an urgent message from Fukaboshi. Soon after, a scream from the princess sent him hurrying with a squad of guards toward her chamber, where he found a false alarm and explained that the pirates would be detained over fabricated kidnapping claims. He was later bound alongside the king after the failed attempt to seize the crew, and he watched in dismay as the palace fell to Hody Jones together with Vander Decken IX, cursing Hody for the chaos. As floodwater rose, Neptune ordered a retreat to regroup with Fukaboshi; the king was captured, while the ministers and guards fled on his direct command, the minister telling the others not to dwell on leaving him behind.

Beaten down at Gyoverly Hills and again at Gyoncorde Plaza, he rallied with the Neptune soldiers and joined the resistance facing Hody's New Fish-Man Pirates, marveling at the Straw Hats' strength once it was over. He drank in celebration with Luffy, Usopp, Neptune, and Shirahoshi, then apologized profusely after Caribou slipped past palace security. When the defeated New Fish-Man Pirates were discovered aged into old men, he identified their Energy Steroids as the legendary pills lost from the Tamatebako around the time Hody quit the guard. Pressing Neptune for the chest's return, he revealed the hidden bomb, and the two were horrified to realize Luffy had given the rigged treasure to Big Mom's crew. They agreed to keep silent, reasoning that ten years in the palace's humidity might have spoiled the device. In the years that followed, both ministers urged Shirahoshi to attend the Levely, stood with the Neptune Family during Neptune's talk with Garp, and gathered to hear Vegapunk's broadcast to the world.