Hancock's Confession - The Sisters' Disgusting Past

Done with fighting, Hancock offers Luffy two roads: take a ship home while the petrified women stay stone, or have them restored and find his own way off the island. Certain he will act selfishly like every man she has known, she watches him drop to his knees and beg her to free them all without a moment's pause. Speechless, she yields, and the captive women are returned to flesh. Nyon marvels that a person of such will would bow his head for those who once saved his life. Word that Luffy has been welcomed into the palace stuns the rest of the tribe.

Behind a curtain, Hancock bares the mark on her back and presses Luffy to recall where he saw its shape, though he only links it to the brand on Hatchan's forehead. Nyon then reads aloud how this stranger struck a World Noble, slipped past Marine pursuers, and reached the island within days, naming details the sisters had not known. Moved that someone still defies the World Government for others' sake, Hancock decides to trust him and tells everything: the hoof print is the seal of the Celestial Dragons, and she and her sisters were once slaves.

Kidnapped at twelve while sailing as novice pirates, the three were sold into bondage and branded by the first man Hancock ever met, the root of her hatred for men. After four years of torment, the fish-man Fisher Tiger scaled the Red Line, razed Mary Geoise, and freed every slave without prejudice, masking their brands with the sun emblem later inherited by his crew. Hancock also reveals they were forced to swallow their Devil Fruits, and that her arrogance is a shield for their honor. When Luffy says he despises only the Celestial Dragons and not her, she smiles, admits she likes him, and lends him her ship. The episode marks Fisher Tiger's first appearance.