## One Piece Chapter 416, pages 9-12: Zoro vs Kaku - Chapter: 416 - Pages: 9-12 - Characters: Roronoa Zoro, Kaku ### Summary Page 9: Zoro follows with "OUTOU-ROU!!!" and sends another rising slash into Kaku, the attack labeled as a tower-climbing reply. Kaku is pushed back but immediately counters with "HIRA-MEKI!!!" marked as a flash, slamming down with a sharp impact. Zoro presses in again with "SAMON!!!"--noted as "sand crest"--driving a sweeping slash across the room. The two trade speed and reach, Zoro's swords cutting through the air while Kaku's giraffe body twists to answer from impossible angles. Page 10: Kaku explains the danger in his strange form: "IF YOU JUMP AROUND, YOU WILL BE IN A BLIND SPOT." A note says the pun uses blind spot and square in Japanese. Zoro notices the opening, but Kaku lashes out with "KAMA-KIRIN!!!"--"scythe giraffe"--and catches him hard, making Zoro cry, "UGH!!!" Kaku then locks himself into "TEKKAI" and compresses into a bizarre square shape called "MUSHI-KAKU..." A note clarifies the pun: no blind spot, with mashikaku meaning perfect square. The square-bodied Kaku crashes through the rubble, still absurd and dangerous at once. Page 11: Kaku insists, "WITH THIS SQUARE STANCE, I HAVE NO BLIND SPOT." Zoro snaps, "SHUT UP!!! WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING!!?" Kaku continues anyway: "DID YOU NOTICE... THAT A GIRAFFE HAS FOUR 'LEGS'?" Zoro reacts with a sharp "!" and Kaku announces, "RAN-KYAKU." Zoro demands, "ARE YOU GONNA FIGHT OR NOT!?" Kaku replies, "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? MY ATTACK HAS ALREADY BEGUN!!" Zoro looks up and realizes something has been sent above him, muttering, "HUH!? HRMM!?" Page 12: Kaku reveals the trick: "THOSE SLASHING ATTACKS I SENT ABOVE... WILL BE REFLECTED DOWN BY THE CEILING AND RAIN ON YOU...!!" The attack falls as "KIRI-SHIGURE!!!" with a note naming it "giraffe rain." Zoro is trapped beneath a downpour of slashes and cries, "UWAH!!!" He tries to defend with "TEKKAI," but the storm is too dense; he complains, "IT'S A DOWNPOUR OF SLASHING ATTACKS!! SHIT!!! THERE ARE TOO MANY TO TAKE!!"