## One Piece Chapter 417: Ashura - Chapter: 417 - Pages: 0-17 - Characters: Usopp, Roronoa Zoro, Kaku ### Summary Page 0: Chapter 417, "ASHURA", opens with a cover illustration. Usopp sits on a tall stool in a place marked "BEAR GARDEN," holding a long tool while a large bear-shaped topiary stands with its arms raised. A smaller white bear sits nearby with a leaf fan, and buildings, trees, insects, a bottle, and a little outdoor meal fill the strange garden setting. Page 1: Zoro and Kaku stand across from one another in the wrecked chamber, smoke drifting through the broken garden-like room. Kaku says, "... I HAVEN'T SHOWN YOU... THE HIDDEN STRENGTH OF A WILD 'GIRAFFE'..." Zoro, breathing hard, answers, "NO NEED TO BRAG. JUST SHOW IT TO ME." Kaku lowers his long neck toward the ground and begins to build up power with "GU GU GU..." Then he warns, "YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO ASK...!!" Page 2: Kaku tells Zoro, "OBSERVE CAREFULLY THE POWER OF A GIRAFFE..." and prepares "KIRIN HOUDAI"--noted as "giraffe battery," with a pun reading "giraffe man pierce tower." Zoro snaps, "THERE'S NO GIRAFFE LIKE THAT." Kaku compresses and then releases an "ultimate nose gun," shouting "KYOKU BIGAN!!!" His body and neck surge forward in an absurdly powerful attack called "KILIMANJARO!!!" Zoro is struck and flung aside, crying "BK!!" as he realizes, "IT GREW!?" Page 3: Kaku's expanded neck smashes Zoro into the rubble and leaves him pinned amid dust and broken stone. Zoro growls from the impact, but then grins and says, "SEE, TOLD YOU. YOUR LONG NECK WILL BE YOUR WEAK POINT!!" Kaku rejects that completely: "NO, IT WON'T!!" He lashes out from the long neck with "RANKYAKU," using the very part Zoro called a weakness to send a cutting strike back at him. The exchange shows that Kaku's bizarre body is not just comic; he is learning to weaponize every awkward shape. Page 4: Kaku spins into "NEJI HAKUJIN!!!"--noted as "screw white blade"--and the rotating attack tears toward Zoro like a drill of slashing force. Zoro is forced back, crying "UWAH!!!" as the room churns with the attack's spiral. Kaku lands in another awkward, upside-down stance, laughing with "GEE GEE GEE GEE," then tells Zoro, "YOU'RE THE ONE WHO'S OFF-GUARD." The giraffe-man has turned his strange body into unpredictable angles, and Zoro is momentarily the one being chased. Page 5: Zoro studies Kaku and asks, "WHAT KIND OF CREATURE IS HE...!?" Kaku drops again and says, "I WON'T LET YOU GET AWAY THIS TIME. KIRIN HOUDAI!!!" But when he compresses his neck too deeply, his arms and legs stretch instead. Zoro and Kaku both stare in disbelief. Kaku curses, "DAMN. I PUSHED MY NECK IN TOO DEEP AND EXTENDED MY ARMS AND LEGS INSTEAD. HOW THE HELL DOES YOUR BODY WORK!?" Zoro asks. Kaku explains, "IT'S KINDA LIKE A PASTA MACHINE THAT PUSHES OUT THE NOODLES AFTER YOU SQUEEZE IN THE FLOUR..." and immediately names the result "PASTA MACHINE!!!" Zoro snaps, "DON'T NAME YOUR ATTACK ON THE SPOT!!!" Page 6: Kaku insists that his long neck is useful, but so are his arms and legs, declaring, "I'M A PROFESSIONAL FIGHTER WHO CAN TURN UNEXPECTED SITUATIONS TO HIS ADVANTAGE!! LOOK!! LOOK AT THE FIGHTING TECHNIQUE THAT I CAN GENERATE WITH THIS REACH!!" Zoro can only say, "YOU REALLY COULDN'T THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE, HUH!!?" Kaku launches "KILIMANJARO!!!" again, while Zoro admits, "I CAN'T KEEP UP WITH YOU...!!" He shifts to "SANTOU-RYUU" and "TATSU"--dragon--as he prepares to meet the incoming reach with a tornado-like sword technique. Page 7: Zoro releases "MAKI!!!" with his three-sword tornado; a note says Tatsumaki means tornado. Kaku braces with "TEKKAI!!!" but feels the force immediately, thinking, "STRONG...!!!" The impact throws him upward, and Zoro notes, "HE... JUMPED TO THE UPPER LEVEL!!" Kaku counters with "GEP-POU" and slams back down as "PASTA MACHINE!!!" His strange compressed body turns the battlefield vertical, dropping from above with a heavy "TATATAN!!!" while Zoro watches for the next opening. Page 8: Kaku crashes down in his compressed form, but Zoro waits and meets him with a clean crossing of blades. Kaku reacts, "!!?" and Zoro says, "THANKS FOR WAITING." Kaku lands back on his feet, impressed by his own new reach. He explains, "IF I CAN CONTROL THE 'REACH' OF MY ARMS, LEGS AND NECK... I CAN SWING THE SWORDS ANY WAY I WANT...!!" Zoro, breathing hard, now faces not just a giraffe body but a four-sword fighter using every stretched limb like an extension of his blades. Page 9: Kaku declares, "I'M A YON-TOURYUU SWORDSMAN." A note identifies it as four sword style. "NOW I CAN MAXIMIZE THE GIRAFFE'S POWER. YOU WON'T STAND A CHANCE!!" he boasts, attacking with his stretched swords from several directions. He explains, "THE FACT THAT A GIRAFFE IS POWERFUL...!! AND THE FACT THAT YOU CAN RETRACT YOUR TROUBLESOME NECK...!! AND THE FACT THAT YOU USE 'YONTOURYUU'...!!" Zoro keeps dodging and guarding as the strange style pushes him through rubble, while Kaku's square body and elongated...