Chapter 515

Chapter 515 is titled "Adventure on the Island of Women".

Cover Page
CP9's Independent Report Vol. 23: "Too Beautiful to Behold, A Flower of Thanks".

A small girl gives Kalifa a flower as thanks for saving them, while Fukuro, Kumadori and Jabra are overcome by emotion at the sight.

Short Summary
Luffy finally awakens and finds himself naked and in solitary confinement. As the citizens gather to see him, Kikyou tries to execute him with arrows. Luffy escapes his cell and avoids being recaptured. He decides to take Marguerite along with him for questioning. After escaping into the jungle Luffy gets his vivre card back from Marguerite and learns that the empress of Amazon Lily is also a pirate.

Long Summary
The narrator explains that the name of this island country is Amazon Lily (it is the place Kuma sent Luffy to), with the entire population being women. It is a place where men are forbidden, The narrator further explains that when some venture out to sea to concieve offspring, they return to bear their children, but oddly enough, they are always born female. It is then revealed that in a large mountain with an arch-like monolith shaped like a heart, there is a large whole with a village inside.The narrator then says that the village and country itself is built like a large fortress. The narrator reveals that all the work and all of the manual labor is performed by the women, who are born as warriors are strong and hearty, but also have an elegance and air about them. A man driven to foolishness by greed has no place there. More than anything else, the women of this country are strong and in this country, strength is beauty. If a man ever approached this country, he would simply disappear.

Somewhere in the village, many of the women are gathering to see Luffy wake up (who is completely nude). As Luffy wakes and stretches, the women are shocked and astonished by his physical appearance, as he doesn't have any breasts at all like them, has unkept hair, and (wrongly) believe him to be weak due to being so thin. They also comment on how he was eating while sleeping. Luffy, slightly drowsy after waking up, says that it's noisy, shocking the women even more after hearing him speak. He then wonders where he is and what he was doing, but then finally recounts what happened back at Saboady Archipelago and up until he ate the mushroom. Luffy scratches his head, but immediately realizes that it's gone, and wonders where it is. He realizes that Sweetpea has it, and uses his rubber powers to stretch to get it back. The women are, again, astonished by seeing Luffy's arm stretch, and one of them writes into a notebook concluding that all men are able to stretch their arms like Luffy. She then asks what the young pirate's name is, which he reveals to be Luffy.

Luffy looks down below to realize that he's naked, which the women point out how he's so slow. The girl with the notebook, then writes again concluding that men are dull and cover their heads before their whole bodies. A curious Marguerite tells Luffy that before he gets dressed, she asks what is the bag between his legs (referring to his scrotum and testicles). Luffy, puzzled by the women's naivety as they should know about this certain stuff, calls them weird and says that they're balls. Marguerite is confused and asks what he means by "balls". Luffy asks if it's obvious and claims that they're "balls made of gold" (he's using slang for testicles to point out their importance to him). The women actually believe that they are literally made of gold, and one says that they're gorgeous. Marguerite naively asks Luffy if he could take them out to show them, but Luffy, horrified and shocked at their idea, refuses for obvious reasons and asks if they're trying to kill him.

Chapter Notes

 * The Kuja tribe attempt to kill Luffy.
 * The Kuja tribe witness the male anatomy for the first time
 * The empress of Amazon Lily is revealed to be the pirate empress, Boa Hancock.
 * The  Kuja tribe's great naivety of men is further shown.

Characters

 * first appearance

Anime Episode

 * Episode 409 (p. 2-19)

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