Chapter 500

Duval greets Sanji and agrees to help once he hears Camie was taken, mounting Motobaro with a few suspects already in mind. At Sabaody Park, Chopper frets while Brook stays unnervingly calm. The Rosy Life Riders gather the scattered crew, picking up the relaxing Chopper and Brook, then split up to chase leads on the various kidnapping gangs. At Grove 22's human shop, Luffy questions the owner about mermaid sales and refuses an obvious fake. Outside, his loud calls for Camie draw recognition from nearby pirates, and Pappag despairs that everyone on the island is hunting Camie and Hatchan. Elsewhere, Robin tells Nami how a treaty two centuries ago ended the open enslavement of fish-men and merfolk, a trade that persists illegally on the archipelago, before Franky interrupts to rush them onto a flying fish.

At Grove 1, an auction house draws elegantly dressed nobles as Peterman leaves through the back, promising to return for his cut. The World Nobles Rosward and Shalria arrive, remarking that Charlos is late because he rides a human rather than a fish-man. Inside, Eustass Kid mocks the Nobles and slavery, while Trafalgar Law flips him off across the room. Backstage, the auctioneer Disco learns the day's special items include a giant and Camie, and he slaps the defiant mermaid before being warned not to mark her where it shows. Camie tearfully insists Hatchan will come, and Disco abruptly collapses. From a holding cell, the giant Stansen asks an old man whether he caused that burst of spirit, and the man laughs it off as a coater who simply could not ignore a pretty girl.

The cover concludes the medical-fee fundraising arc of the CP9's Independent Report, with Kalifa using her Awa Awa no Mi during a rainstorm to scrub St. Poplar's roofs clean. Robin educates Nami on the discrimination faced by fish-men and merfolk. The chapter's landmark reveal is Silvers Rayleigh, former first mate to the Pirate King Gol D. Roger, appearing in the present for the first time after an unnamed cameo in Buggy's flashback in Chapter 19, and he is shown to wield a mysterious power later known as Haki.