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We start things off by watching LABOON IT’S LABOON AND CROCUS AND YORKI. Yes that is totally Yorki. Really let’s not even pretend he’s not superold, superkickass and still alive.
It’s hard to be Vander Decken.
It’s hard when the girl you’ve been stalking for over ten years and want to kill get’s herself a superstrong bodyguard. It’s hard and nobody understands. That is until he figures out that the proper solution to solving this dilemma is to, and I quote, ’break everything’. Prepare my brown pants- I think I’m going to need them.
Yes I’m still scared of Vander Decken. His haikus may suck and he's kind of pathetic, but somehow, somehow, he still manages to be pretty damn terrifying.
At Gyoverly Hills, the armies of Neptune lie scattered and beaten. Both Ministers have fallen, the Left lamenting the fact that they at the cusp of finally attending the Reverie their dream has been snatched away right from their very finns. And so he begs, begs whatever deity that might be listening for a miracle. But Fishman Island seems to have those in scarce supply, as over at Gyoncorde Plaza as we see Neptune in chains…
And Hodys (which is apparently the real way to spell his name) new, steroid-enhanced look… and man is it a dull one. He’s buffer and whitehaired- he looks a BIT more intimidating, I guess, but it’s really not much to write home about. Also the Kraken has turned traitor, the no good eight-armed octodealer, and Neptune is apparently strung up where Otohime died. Me thinks someone’s having a complex. The assembled pirates laugh at the beaten soldiers but UH OH- one of them is slowly getting to his feet and brandishing an explosive bandolier! He’s aiming to sacrifice himself and take down one of the officers, WILL HE no he won’t. Hody kills him with a drop of water.
… I guess that’s what they call heavy water.
… And the sheer badness of that pun summons the princes to interrupt the awkward silence.
That’s right, they’re here to tell the kids that drugs are for losers, and that kids should stay in greens and eat their school! Hody’s response is an unimpressed face and siccing the sea beast army on the princes.
Whereupon the princes decide to kick up their BAMF-notches a fair five points or so! But the odds are still stacked against them as ALL of Hody’s officers start munching steroids, and it is doubtful that even the approaching Shirahoshi and Jinbe can even things out. As for the Strawhats, they are nowhere to be seen…
Now then- thoughts so far? There’s got to be SOME kind of fight involving the Strawhats, but if they were to save the day after all these talks of how fishmen need to solve fishmen’s issues, all that talk will seem kind of hollow. I am not hopeful that the princes can fight off ALL the officers, and them kicking sea beast ass felt kind of like a set-up: we see how impressive they are, only to havet hem immediately crushed in the next chapter, so we know just how hardcore the officers in Hodys army really are.
On the other hand, a big battle WITHOUT the Strawhats involved would be kind of weird, them being the heroes of the show and all. But on the THIRD hand, they’ve got Jinbe coming up and a guy who could beat up Luffy NOT playing some major part just seems cheap. Ah, what the hell. I’ll just have to wait and see what happens, just like everyone else.