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[NARRATOR] This is the time known as the Great Pirate Era.

A countless array of pirates go to battle across the seas

in search of the One Piece, the legendary treasure left behind

by Gold Roger, King of the Pirates.

Monkey D. Luffy,

a boy whose body turned to rubber

after eating the Gum-Gum Fruit,

sets sail to become the next King of the Pirates.

As Luffy and his crew conquer numerous obstacles,

they capture the unwanted attention

of the World Government,

which will use any means necessary to stop them.

[LUFFY] Now this is exciting!

I can't wait to see what kind of adventure's up next!

[NARRATOR] With a charted course awash in danger and intrigue,

the crew will cut a path across the Grand Line to the New World!

[NARRATOR] Luffy was sent flying from the Sabaody Archipelago

by Bartholomew Kuma.

After soaring through the sky for hours,

he found himself in a kingdom inhabited entirely by women.

Its name was Amazon Lily.

[AMAZONS screaming]

[KIKYO] Don't let him escape!

[LUFFY] There she is! Perfect!

[NARRATOR] Luffy captured a Kuja Warrior by the name of Margaret

and fled their village, but could not escape the island.

If this keeps up much longer,

I'll end up growing attached to you!

Hold on! Just stop!

I am Vice-Admiral Momonga of Navy Headquarters!

Warlord of the Sea and Pirate Empress Boa Hancock,

I have come for you! Reveal yourself!

[HANCOCK] I already told you, I like being a warlord.

However, I loathe the World Government.

I have no interest in following their orders.

Surely I can find a better solution.

Love-Love Beam!

[MOMONGA] Unless you reappear in two days,

your position will be revoked!

Do as you wish.

[LUFFY] The Secret Hidden on the Backs.

Luffy and the Snake Princess Meet.

[AMAZON 411A] Open the gate!

[AMAZON 411A] The Snake Princess has returned!

[AMAZONS cheering in excitement]

[AMAZON 411A] We missed you!

[AMAZON 411A] Welcome home, Kuja Pirates!

We're glad you're back!

[AMAZON 411B] We love you, Snake Princess!

[AMAZON 411C] Looking good, Ran!

[AMAZON 411D] You're the best, Daisy!

We brought back lots of loot!

They're so awesome!

I'm gonna join the pirates when I grow up!

[cheering continues]

It's the Gorgon Sisters!

[AMAZON 411E] I love you, Snake Princess!

[AMAZON 411F] Welcome home, Daisy!

[AMAZON 411G] Ran! Daisy! Hey, Rindo!

[AMAZON 411H] Bluefan!

[AMAZON 411I] Cosmos!

Welcome home, Marigold!

Hey, Sandersonia!

They're really worked up.

They simply missed our dear sister.

It was a lengthy journey.

Can you blame them?

She smiled at me!

No, she was smiling at me!

Welcome back, Princess.

We've prepared a Monkey Carriage for you.

Is there anything to report?

No. Everything's fine.

[AMAZON 411K] Gently, now.

It's quite fragile, carry it slowly.

Iron ore, gunpowder, alcohol and northern crops.

What a truly impressive haul!

[RAN] Yeah. We plundered a couple of merchant vessels

and one pirate ship.

Not to mention the loads of cargo we claimed

from a central government ship.

You Kuja Pirates really are a force to be reckoned with.

Guess so.

Are you handling the Snake Princess' gift?

Oh yeah, don't worry.

It's on the way to the castle now.

[NYON] Ran, did you collect any books?

[NYON] Down here.

[RAN] Granny Nyon! Books, huh?

Oh! We did appropriate a recent newspaper

off the Central Government ship.

Here. All yours.

Nyo my goodness!

[AMAZONS] Welcome back, Snake Princess.

We're so glad to have you home, Snake Princess.

Me, too. It's nice to be back.

I thought you might want to enjoy

your spoils of war, so I've polished

the most exquisite jewel from the batch for you.

[HANCOCK] Oh?

Oh, wow!

No jewel in the world can compare to her smile!

But Snake Princess!

A gaudy rock like that

would be an unsightly blemish upon my beauty.

[HANCOCK] Enishida. What is this?

[ENISHIDA] Oh! I forgot.

The children of the village lovingly crafted

a statue of your likeness out of clay as a gift.

It's endearing how much love and labor

they poured into its creation.

Well!

We made this to show the Snake Princess

how much we love her!

It took them forever to bring it up to the castle

because it would break if they dropped it.

Don't you think it's cute?

[HANCOCK] Hmm...

It's me.

But made out of mud.

Snake Princess!

[HANCOCK] Don't bring such filth into the castle.

It's inelegant!

Throw it away at once and clean the floor.

[HANCOCK] I'm curious, Enishida.

Oh? About?

I couldn't help but notice the city defenders

were absent from the wharf upon our arrival.

Uh... Actually, you see...

A ferocious and violent monkey

came rampaging out of the jungle.

The size and brute strength of the beast

was simply astonishing.

So everyone has left for the jungle to hunt it.

I see.

[LUFFY] Woo-hooooo!

There he is!

Take this.

Has the beast met his end?

Look! He's over there!

[APHELANDRA] Are all men as stubborn as this one?

Do not think you can escape your death.

It's no concern. They'll be back shortly.

I am truly sorry they weren't there to greet you.

[HANCOCK] No matter.

[ENISHIDA] Well then. Would you care for a drink?

White sake.

[NYON] Gyo ahead and make that two while you're at it.

[HANCOCK] Granny Nyon,

how nice of you to defile my private chambers.

I didn't see you come in!

[AMAZON 411N] How did you get in here?

Forget "how". I'm here.

Get rid of her.

Hold on! Listen, Snake Princess!

[HANCOCK] You forgot "please".

Now say it.

Please listen, Snake Princess.

I have just learned that there's a ship from Central

anchored off our shores.

They've come here with the express purpose

of summoning you, have they nyot?

The Central Government has ordered you into active duty.

[HANCOCK] That's right. They want me to go to war.

Why are you here?

You must go!

You must uphold the agreement or they'll revoke your title!

I nyo you've just returned.

But surely you still have the strength to fight.

I do.

But I'm afraid to go!

Aww! She's like a widdle puppy.

Wait! I'm nyot fallin' for that!

[ENISHIDA] That really got to her.

Nyow. Think this through.

All that is truly protecting our nation is your title as Warlord.

[NYON] Our greatest deterrence from outside forces

is Amazon Lily's location,

here in the Sea King-riddled waters of the Calm Belt.

But as time marches forward, so does technology.

And nyow these Central dwellers have ships

that provide them with safe passage through these parts.

We need a new weapon to keep them at bay.

Your rank as Warlord

is the sole reason they avoid our shores

despite the activities of the Kuja Pirates.

[NYON] Think of your people.

Our island is home to helpless children and elderly.

If you lost your title,

Amazon Lily would just be another nation of pirates!

And the government would bring ruin to us!

Now you're the one who sounds like she's afraid.

[NYON] I am old. I could drop dead at any moment.

Gaze into this crystal ball and see your future!

Oh, my!

Her crystal ball is always right about the future!

It's never wrong about anything!

I shall conjure an image of your fate.

Nyon! Nyon! Nyon! Nyon!

Nyon! Nyon! Nyon!

Nyon nyon nyon nyon nyon!

[NYON] Your fortune!

You idiot.

[HANCOCK] Throw her out!

Right now!

Yes, of course, Snake Princess!

Wait, hear me out!

Nyot so rough!

[HANCOCK] I listen respectfully and you treat me like a fool.

Did you think I'd fall for your chicanery?

Your reign here ended well over three generations ago.

How dare you act like you're still the empress

of Amazon Lily...

...Gloriosa.

It doesn't matter what I do.

I could lay waste to every inch of this nation of ours.

On a whim.

And still,

I would be forgiven because I'm beautiful!

[ENISHIDA] Amazing!

She looks down on people so much that she looks up!

[HANCOCK] Why on earth should I listen to the words

of a disgraced ruler who abandoned her people

to journey the outer seas?

Traitor to the Kuja!

So I live alone in penance on the outskirts of town!

Nyon nyon nyon...

Which is where you should be at this very moment.

Do not presume to tell me what to do!

I'm the reigning empress!

[AMAZONS] Snake Princess?

[NYON] Put me down already! Nyon!

That said,

I can't help but admire your overwhelming passion.

You may be right.

[NYON] You agree to my request?

Thank you for understanding the needs of your people!

How wonderful!

So. How soon will you be leaving?

Never. Know your place, fool!

Nyon!

[HANCOCK] Now get out of my sight!

A curse on you, Snake Princess!

Nyooooon!

[AMAZON 411K] Snake Princess...

[AMAZON 411L] You threw an old woman out the window!

On accident.

Oh, of course!

We know it wasn't your fault!

[HANCOCK] Now clean up all this broken glass.

[AMAZONS] Yes, ma'am!

That irritating old hag.

Nyooooon!

Granny Nyon?

I may be old, but I'm still a Kuja warrior.

My skills haven't withered a bit.

I touched her.

Have you prepared my bathwater yet?

Yes. I'll issue the advisory immediately.

[gong ringing]

[ENISHIDA] Your attention please!

The Snake Princess will now bathe!

Now...

Stay still, I'm almost done.

Whoa! Sorry!

[ENISHIDA] You must evacuate the castle now!

Hey, come on, we've gotta go!

But I just sat down, I'm still eating!

[AMAZON 411S] Come on, hurry everyone!

[ENISHIDA] If you're on duty today, report to your posts!

Sounds like it's bath time.

Get ready, girls.

They're clearing out the castle now.

It's about to get packed in here.

[ENISHIDA] For the next several hours,

no one is allowed to enter the castle under any circumstances!

[RAN] What are you doing here?

You know you're not allowed past the barrier, right?

Yeah.

But why's it such a big deal when the Empress takes a bath?

Everyone acts like we're going to war or something.

First things first, how old are you?

Eight years old.

Well, then I think I can tell you.

Wait, you don't mean...

...the secret?

That's right.

[HANCOCK] You're in charge of keeping watch.

[MARIGOLD] As you wish, dear sister.

[SANDERSONIA] Take your time.

You see, the Gorgon was a monster.

It stalked the tides of the Central Oceans.

If anyone made the mistake

of gazing upon this horrifying creature,

they would be turned to stone.

[RAN] After facing countless perils

along a treacherous journey,

The Snake Princess and her sisters encountered the monster

and managed to slay it.

[HANCOCK yelling]

[RAN] But the screams of the dying abomination

were laced with evil,

and it placed the sisters under a curse.

The penetrating eyes of the monster

were etched across the flesh of the sisters' backs.

So they remain, forever staring, even today.

And if anyone gazes upon these wicked eyes,

their body will harden into stone and they'll die.

[RAN] That's why the Gorgon sisters

refuse to remove their clothing before another human.

[RAN] As a matter of precaution,

they always post guards when they bathe.

And they secure and evacuate the castle.

[LUFFY yelling]

[hissing]

[LUFFY] That hurts!

Sounds like the man's over there!

The snakes must have found him.

[LUFFY yelling]

Stop! Get off me!

[LUFFY yelling]

Did you see where he went?

Yeah, he ran up the side of the mountain!

You don't think he could be headed back

to the village, do you?

I thought he was bound and determined to find a ship.

What?

There we go.

Aw, jeez, that really sucked.

Okay, now what's next?

They'll come and shoot me with arrows if I just sit here.

[LUFFY] But wait a sec.

Margaret did say they've got a pirate ship.

I wonder... how hard it'd be to borrow it.

That won't work. Nami's not here.

I'd get lost in no time without her.

I got it!

All I gotta do is ask someone for a ride in their ship!

Wherever they're going,

I'm sure they won't mind a quick trip to Sabaody!

So who am I gonna ask for a ride?

Probably gotta be someone important and high up.

And if they're high up,

that means they gotta live in a tall building, right?

My head's on fire from all this thinking!

Right! Guess I'll just try the first tall building I can find!

Let's see...

That one'll do!

[LUFFY yelling]

[KIKYO] We need to hurry!

By this point, the Snake Princess has probably returned.

We'll be in trouble if she finds the man!

[LUFFY yelling]

You suck, roof!

[AMAZON 411T] What was that?

[AMAZON 411U] The roof of the castle tower collapsed!

Oh, no!

This is bad.

That's where the Empress is taking a bath!

More water?

Why the heck is it hot? Am I in a bath?

[LUFFY] I can't breathe, I'm drowning, I'm gonna die!

It's real shallow. I'm safe!

[LUFFY] This is... a huge bath!

A man?

Hey...

That thing on your back.

It looks...

...kinda familiar.

You saw it?

[NARRATOR] Luffy is captured once more after seeing

the Snake Princess' secret.

Margaret and her friends try to defend him,

but Hancock is unmoved and turns them all to stone.

Luffy is angry to see the empress

petrify her own comrades,

but is powerless to help as he faces his own execution.

[LUFFY] On the next One Piece:

Heartless Judgment!

Margaret is Turned to Stone!

I'm gonna be King of the Pirates!