Tongari Den Den Mushi

Tongari takes the form of a Den Den Mushi colored yellow and flecked with orange. A long purple goatee hangs beneath a sharply pointed mustache of the same shade. What sets him apart from his kind is the shell on his back: rather than the usual rounded dome, his is cone-shaped and banded in orange and white stripes. Come nighttime he changes into pale blue pajamas topped with a fluffy-pommed sleeping cap.

When a question lands that he would rather dodge, Tongari leans into a put-on forgetfulness and trails off into mumbling. He confesses to a strange fondness for being scolded by stern women, drags out his words at a crawl, and amuses himself by humming little songs. Heights unsettle him and boats make him queasy. Locals call him by the affectionate handle Chourou, roughly meaning elder, and his guiding motto is the tea-ceremony phrase ichigoichie, the idea that a meeting happens but once in a lifetime.

His sight reaches across enormous distances, which lets him keep an eye on Luffy's crew and everything beyond, though his pace on foot is glacial. Down the generations Tongari Island passed along a special psychic wave able to boost the strength of Haki, and Tongari now wields it as he chooses, drawing it out through the bonds of friendship such as those binding the Straw Hats. Like any ordinary snail of his type, he can also be used to place calls. That gift came to the fore when the crew pried open a treasure chest and found him napping inside. After a Seastone cage dropped on them, Franky blasted it apart, and during the clash that followed Tongari and the island's other snails began to glow, funneling their energy through the central tower into a beam that lifted Luffy and Law to overpower Kizaru.