One Piece Volume 47 : Cloudy With a Chance of Bone Chapter 456 Devil From the Land of Ice - Page 127 - Ener's Space Conquest, Vol. 23 "Alas!! The Space Pirate Was Too Strong" - Page 128 - Franky: Back to the ship?! You want us to go back to the Sunny?! Brook: That's right. Your most-likely-already-captured crewmates may be in for the worst fate of all, the loss of their shadows! However, having your shadow taken away DOESN'T mean you die. As proof of that, just look at ME!! Wait! I AM dead!!! Franky: But that's a different story!!! So they won't die from losing their shadows. Brook: Correct! The problem is that once you have lost your shadow, you lose consciousness. They won't awake for another two days. - Page 129 - Brook: In that time, they will rush to put the strongest warriors on ship and set to sea, away from Thriller Bark, as I told you earlier. But do you know WHY? Robin: So that the victims cannot come back to the island to retrieve their shadows. Brook: Precisely! Franky: Why not kill 'em while they're knocked out, then? Brook: Ah, but they CANNOT! This part is very important, so listen carefully. The body and shadow, however separated, are still one and the same! If the "body" dies, so will the "shadow" dissipate. Which means the zombie will perish as well!! Our enemy does not wish for this to happen, so they leave the bodies alive. Captions (R-L): Body, Shadow, Zombie - Page 130 - Brook: Therefore, even if your friends should have suffered the loss of their shadows, they will still be returned alive to your ship, without fail! If YOU two should fall victim as well, that would indeed be the worst of predicaments!! You will all be fated to wander this sea, shadowless...!!! The only chance we have to retrieve their shadows is to wake your friends now, while we can still act!! Franky: I see... Well, your story makes sense. Brook: Take this, you two... Franky: What is it? Brook: The zombies' weakness. I believe you just witnessed its effect upon that spider monkey!! Franky: Weakness...?! What is it? - Page 131 - Brook: It is SALT. Franky: ...Salt?! What, is it like some sort of charm that purifies evil spirits or something? Brook: Well, if you want to think of it that way, yes... These zombies are moving through the powers of Devil Fruit to begin with... And with the effect of this sea-derived salt, their bodies lose the ability to bond with their false souls. Franky: Oh, I get it. So what this monkey just spit up was the "shadow" inside of him. Robin: ...What a surprising weakness. Brook: And to defeat those zombies, just stuff the salt into their mouths!! They'll have a "bone" to pick with you then!!! (Get it?! Bone!!) - Page 132 - Brook: A "bone"!! BONE! Robin: But why do you know so much about this island and its zombies? Brook: Five years ago, when my shadow was taken, I was, of course, put back on my ship, but I luckily awoke before I lost sight of the island, and I was able to turn back and fight, with the result... a devastating loss!! ...I fled for my life! I simply could not bear the thought of death! I was the only survivor on my ship, after all. I fled for my life, that one day, I might escape this sea of demons and complete my promise to my fellows!!! However, simply surviving did not give me the means to solve this problem. Therefore, THIS time... I shall not run!!! I will beat him, and take my shadow back!!! - Page 133 - Brook: Now then...!! Your pardons. I must be on my way!! Good day to you!! Franky: Wait a second!!! Before you go, just one more thing. I want you to answer my question. - Page 134 - [Gecko Moria's Dance Hall, inside the "Mast Mansion"] Crew: {Luffy...!!! What happened?! Did you... see that?! It was his shadow... He cut off his shadow...!!! Wait a minute... That's what the skeleton Brook talked about, right? He said his shadow was stolen...!! Is that what happened to Brook?!} Chopper: {I can't believe it... How can that even be possible?? ACK!!} Perona: Huh? Kumacy!! Did I hear you whispering to yourself again?! Kumacy: Uh... uh... Absalom: Kumacy-derived ecstasy. (ecsmacy) - Page 135 - Moria: Kishishishishi!!! This one is going to get me one step closer to the Pirate King, Hogback! I can feel it!! Hogback: I have spent the last 10 years since I met you working to complete this masterpiece, #900! Once that shadow has been put inside, we'll have the world's mightiest zombie, and a great addition to our arsenal!! - Page 136 - Absalom: Then the day will soon come when I am the "King of Graveyards" the world over. Perona: At last, my kingdom of dreams, where all the cute creatures of the world are turned into zombies that bow to my whims!! Moria: That's right!! Even the cheekiest of runts obeys my orders as a shadow! The world will be one of unthinking zombies! If I'd had all of these servants back then... I never would have lost to that Kaidoh fool in the New World...!!! Well, let's get it awake, then!! Gyoro! Nin! Bao!! Open the door to the special freezing chamber!! Zombies: Right away, Master!! - Page 137 - Absalom: Spider Mice!! Go drop Straw Hat Luffy's body back on his ship. And don't forget to undo his bonds. Don't want him dying on us. Mice: Sir!! Hang on!! We have a report!! Absalom: What...? Mice: The Spider Monkey, Captain Tararan, has just been felled!!! Absalom: Felled? ...What, it's not like he had his shadow removed... Mice: He had his shadow removed!!! Hogback: Absalom... There's only ONE man who can do that sort of thing...!! - Page 138 - Mice: It was that blade-wielding dandy, the "Hummer"!! Several other victims have surfaced!! This will be a repeat of that nightmare from five years ago!! Hogback: Curses... The one enemy to discover our zombies' weakness. How did he find out... and how in the hell did he get BACK here?!! Wait... Cindry-chan, don't stand in front of me... Perona: I've heard of this guy. Who is he? Absalom: Perona...!! You mean you don't know what he looks like?! ...No WONDER he passed through our surveillance. Master, seeds of calamity have been sown once again...!! Moria: What makes you think I care about that, moron? YOU people do something about it!!! We're going to the freezing chamber!! Mice: Uh... wait! - Page 139 - Mice: But see, the current situation is... Absalom: Say that FIRST next time, idiot. Mice: Argh! Absalom: We can stop them easily enough, in that case. If there's a problem, come back to me. Now go and get rid of Straw Hat!! Mice: Roger!! (hup ho, hup ho) Nami: {Luffy!!!} Usopp: {Don't poke your head out!! Losing your shadow doesn't mean you die! Remember Brook?} Zipper: (ziiip) Crew: {We can't leave now...!! Let's wait for our chance...!! They're going to do something with Luffy's shadow. We ought to watch what happens... So we can get it back later...!!} - Page 140 - [2nd Floor, adjoining the Mast Mansion and Hogback's Mansion] [Spiderweb Walkway] Zombies: They ain't here no more! Where'd those two get off to...?! Can't BELIEVE they got Tararan...!! Where's the enemy...!! Lemme cut 'em down!!! [Inside Gecko Moria's Mast Mansion] Franky: Haugh!!! - Page 141 - Robin: Franky... Franky: Oww!! What?! I ain't cryin', punk!! Don't look at me!!! Hauh... Robin: Why... Why did you ask him that? Franky: Shuddup! I can if I want... Let's just keep going!! Sniff!! Sigh... Man, I LOVE that sack o' bones... I ain't never met such a great man!! Son of a bitch. Sob... Robin: Haha... I suppose not. [Hogback's Laboratory, Top Floor, Mansion] Chair: (clunk)(clunk) - Page 142 - Ryuma: Yohohoho... So, Pushing you off wasn't enough to make you give up? Brook: Of course not. Hahh. Hahh. Ryuma: Do you not know my name...?! All who hear of "Ryuma the Swordsman" cower in fear... Brook: Silence!! You are my shadow!!! Ryuma: Yohohohoho... But our bodies are on quite different levels!!! Brook: You will return. To my feet once more!!! - Page 143 - [Passage to Special Freezing Chamber for Zombie #900] Hogback: I can't wait... When I saw his corpse in the Land of Ice... I couldn't stop trembling. To think, that dreadful thing was wreaking havoc on the seas, 500 years ago...!! Absalom: Brrr. Hogback: As he conquered each island, he took the entire thing back to his land, creating a country of villains. The very man behind the legend of the "Nation-puller"...!!! (Note: This is likely inspired by the Shinto myth of the "kuni-hiki" from the Izumo area, where one of the gods was said to have stretched out the cramped lands of Izumo to form the Shimane Peninsula.) Hogback: THIS is what my zombie research was designed to achieve... Moria: Another legend returns to life, kishishishi!! Now then... The revival begins!! Of the only man in history... - Pages 144 & 145 - Moria: The only mad berserker to ever be called a "devil"!!! "ODZ"!!!! - Chapter 456 End -