Chapter 515

A narrator lays out the nature of Amazon Lily, the island Kuma flung Luffy toward. Its population is entirely female, men are barred, and although some leave to conceive children at sea, every birth comes out a girl. The settlement nests inside a heart-shaped mountain arch and is fortified like a stronghold. Every woman is raised from infancy as a warrior, prizing strength as the truest form of beauty, and any greedy man who dared approach would simply cease to exist.

At the prison, a crowd gathers as the naked Luffy wakes and stretches. The women marvel at his flat chest, scruffy hair, and skinny frame, judging him weak, and are stunned when he speaks. After recalling the Sabaody chaos and the mushroom that felled him, he notices his hat is missing and stretches a rubber arm to snatch it back from Sweetpea, astonishing the onlookers further.

One woman scribbles in a notebook, concluding that all men can stretch and that they are dull-witted for covering their heads before their bodies. A curious Marguerite asks about the sack between his legs, and Luffy, baffled by their innocence, jokingly calls them his golden treasures, which the women take literally. When Marguerite asks him to show them off, he refuses in horror. Kikyo tries to finish him with Haki-imbued arrows, but Luffy crashes through the ceiling and escapes capture, dragging Marguerite along to question her. In the jungle he recovers his Vivre Card and learns that Amazon Lily's empress is a renowned pirate, while the Kuja race to track him down because their snake princess has come home.

The chapter establishes the Kuja's profound naivety regarding men and reveals that the island's empress is the pirate Boa Hancock. The Kuja's attempt to execute Luffy sets the stage for his confrontation with their ruler. The cover continues the CP9 story, showing a grateful child gifting Kalifa a flower.