Chapter 521

With the fight over, Hancock offers Luffy a stark choice: take a ship back to Sabaody, or have her restore the petrified Marguerite, Sweet Pea, and Aphelandra and find his own way off the island. Expecting him to reveal a selfish streak, she is left speechless when Luffy drops to his knees and begs her to revive the three women who helped him. Nyon remarks on his willingness to bow without hesitation for his benefactors. The women are returned to normal, and Luffy is summoned alone to the palace.

Behind a curtain, Luffy is baffled to find Hancock undressed, showing him the hoof-shaped mark on her back and asking where he saw it before. He recalls mistaking it for the sun symbol on Hatchan's forehead. When Nyon reads aloud that Luffy struck a World Noble and sent him flying, the sisters are stunned, and Hancock, moved that such people still exist, decides to confide everything. At twelve she and her sisters were kidnapped as novice pirates, sold to the Celestial Dragons, and branded, the source of her hatred of men. After four years of torment, a fish-man named Fisher Tiger scaled the Red Line, freed every slave regardless of race, and burned Mary Geoise. He rebranded the freed fish-men's slave marks into the Sun emblem, the same mark Hatchan and Arlong bear, so no one could tell former slaves apart. Hancock also reveals the sisters were force-fed their Devil Fruits, and that she lies and acts cruel to shield her people from the shame of her past.

This chapter exposes the Boa sisters' history as Celestial Dragon slaves freed by Fisher Tiger, who went on to form the Sun Pirates, and explains the sun marks on Hatchan and Arlong. Nyon is confirmed to have taken the sisters in and raised them on Amazon Lily. When Hancock fearfully asks if Luffy scorns her, he says he hates only the World Nobles, prompting her to smile, declare she likes him, and grant him use of her ship. The cover advances the CP9 story as Marine Captain Very Good arrives to capture the rogue agents.