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Chapter 435: You Have My Sympathies

Arc: Post-Enies Lobby · Saga: Water Seven · Released:

Summary

Back on Water Seven, Franky labors on Scrap Island to build the Straw Hats a new ship; Iceberg, Tom’s old workers, and Galley-La’s Dock One all pitch in. The day’s newspaper arrives: the Enies Lobby incident has been spun to spare the citizens — Galley-La, the Franky Family, and the townsfolk are cast as innocent bystanders, while the Straw Hats are blamed for declaring war on the government and razing the island. The crew, lounging at Galley-La’s temporary HQ, shrugs it off (they’re pirates already) and guesses Aokiji — or maybe Luffy’s grandfather — pulled the strings. Over a few days of shopping and waiting, the recharged Log Pose locks onto the next island: the underwater paradise Fish-Man Island, reached only by crossing the Florian Triangle, a cursed sea where ~100 ships vanish yearly and ghost ships crewed by the dead are seen — to Luffy’s delight (“I get to meet a living skeleton?!”). Usopp, still in his Sniper King mask, secretly rehearses a dozen face-saving ways to rejoin the crew. Finally the Franky Family arrive in a panic with fresh wanted posters: every Straw Hat now has a bounty — Luffy 300M, Zoro 120M, Robin 80M, Sanji 77M (sketch only), “Sniper King” 30M (no one recognizes Usopp), Nami 16M, Chopper 50 berries, and Cyborg Franky 44M. Because Franky’s bounty makes Water Seven deadly for him, the Family beg the Straw Hats to take their big bro out to sea — by force if they must.

New reveals

• Whole-crew post-Enies Lobby bounties (pp. 16-19): Luffy 300,000,000, Zoro 120,000,000, Robin 80,000,000, Sanji 77,000,000 (poster is a hand-drawn sketch — “photo not available”), Sniper King (Usopp’s alias) 30,000,000, Nami 16,000,000, Chopper 50 berries (“Pet”), Cyborg Franky 44,000,000. Luffy crosses the 300M mark.
• Fish-Man Island is the next destination (pp. 10-11): the Log Pose points at the next island and tilts downward because that island — “the underwater paradise, Fish-Man Island” — lies beneath the sea.
• The Florian Triangle named (pp. 12-13): a cursed sea between Water Seven and Fish-Man Island; ~100+ ships vanish yearly, crews disappear, ghost ships crewed by the dead are reported. Crossing it is the only route on.
• Franky’s “ship of dreams” is complete — built in ~5 days with five Galley-La shipwrights, kept hidden to surprise the crew (the ship is not yet shown or named).
• Newspaper cover-up (pp. 4-5): the citizens/Galley-La/Franky Family are framed as bystanders; the Straw Hats are blamed for declaring war on the government and destroying the island; the crew credits Aokiji (and floats Luffy’s grandfather).
• Franky-backstory tell: “He used to be the son of a pirate!” (p. 19).

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

Mentions / appearances

• Characters: Franky (building the ship on Scrap Island; new 44M “Cyborg Franky” bounty; “son of a pirate” tell), Iceberg (helps with blueprints; reunites Tom’s workers), Luffy (300M bounty; wants to meet a living skeleton; spent the party fund), Zoro (120M; knows of Fish-Man Island), Nami (16M; gives Chopper allowance), Sanji (77M sketch poster; mermaid-fervor over Fish-Man Island), Nico Robin (80M “Demon Child”; “It must have been Aokiji”), Tony Tony Chopper (50-berry “Pet” bounty), Usopp (as Sniper King, 30M; secretly rehearsing how to rejoin).
• Referenced (not shown): Aokiji (credited with the newspaper cover-up), Garp (“your grandfather” — pulled strings?), Tom (“Tom’s workers are all back together”).
• Groups: Straw Hat Pirates, Franky Family (bring the posters; beg the crew to take Franky to sea), Galley-La Company (Dock One shipwrights help build the ship), Tom’s Workers (reassembled to help), Marines / World Government (bounties, newspaper).
• Locations: Water Seven (Scrap Island; Galley-La HQ; market), Fish-Man Island (next island, mentioned), Florian Triangle (named; the route to FMI).
• Races: Fish-Men (discussed re: Fish-Man Island — “not all fish-men are like that,” i.e. the Arlong Pirates).
• World: Log Pose (points downward to the underwater next island).
• Cover only: Enel — “Eneru’s Great Space Mission, Vol. 6: ‘I’m Sorry, But I’m Still Alive!’” (Skypiea cover serial; deferred to cover-tracker).

Notable panels

• Page 1 — Title page “YOU HAVE MY SYMPATHIES.” Cover-story banner: “ENERU’S GREAT SPACE MISSION, VOL. 6: ‘I’M SORRY, BUT I’M STILL ALIVE!’” — Eneru (helmeted, hand over mouth) drifting in cloudy space. Enel cover serial (deferred to cover-tracker).
• Pages 2-3 — Water Seven, Scrap Island: Franky sands the new ship; Iceberg arrives; Tom’s old workers and Galley-La’s Dock One crew all converge to help rebuild “that pirate ship that got burned.”
• Pages 4-5 — The newspaper arrives; the Enies Lobby spin frames the citizens as bystanders and the Straw Hats as government-defying island-destroyers; “It must have been Aokiji”; “Did your grandfather?” (Galley-La temporary HQ).
• Pages 6-7 — Luffy spent the 100M party fund; the crew shops Water Seven; Nami doles out 10,000 berries to Chopper. “It took Franky five days to complete the ship.”
• Pages 8-9 — Usopp, still masked, rehearses a dozen face-saving “patterns” to rejoin the crew (Pattern 23, the “slip in inadvertently” plan, the Elbaph farewell gambit). Sanji: “What is that idiot doing?” Splash of the new ship under construction at sunset (BANG CLANG).
• Pages 10-11 — Log Pose recharges (BEAM!) and points downward → Fish-Man Island, the underwater next island. Sanji erupts over mermaids; Zoro and the crew weigh in on fish-men.
• Page 12 — A fish-faced Water Seven informant warns the route to “paradise” is hard, citing “Fourteen ships disappeared this month” — and names THE FLORIAN TRIANGLE.
• Page 13 — Ghost-ship lore: ~100 ships vanish yearly, crews gone, eyewitness ghost ships crewed by the dead (skeleton-crew panel). Luffy: “I get to meet a living skeleton?!” — Brook/Thriller Bark pre-load.
• Pages 16-17 — Wanted-poster splash: Luffy 300M, “Zolo” 120M, Robin 80M; then Chopper “Pet” 50 berries, Nami 16M, “Sniper King” 30M, Sanji 77M (sketch).
• Page 18 — Crew reactions: Luffy “ALL RIGHT! IT WENT UP!”; “Who is this?” over the Sniper King poster; nobody connects it to Usopp.
• Pages 19-20 — “Cyborg Franky 44M”; the Franky Family beg the Straw Hats to take Franky to sea — “He used to be the son of a pirate!” — closing on a sweating, fish-faced Family member.

Open questions raised

• What does Franky’s hidden “ship of dreams” look like — and will Franky himself join the crew to sail it?
• Will the crew (and Usopp) reconcile before they leave Water Seven?
• What is the Florian Triangle, really — and what waits in its fog for a captain who wants to meet a living skeleton?
• Who actually arranged the newspaper cover-up that spared the citizens — Aokiji, or Garp?
• How does an underwater island get reached, and what does the downward-tilting Log Pose imply about the descent?