## One Piece Chapter 401: Pirates vs CP9 - Chapter: 401 - Pages: 0-16 - Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Roronoa Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Tony Tony Chopper, Nico Robin, Rob Lucci, Kaku, Jabra ### Summary Page 0: Color chapter cover for Chapter 401, "Pirates vs CP9." The Straw Hats charge through a bright adventure scene with a giant mammoth-like beast behind them. The banner reads, "Have your dream big! Have your game big!! Pirates that exceed the standard subjugate enemies that exceed the standard!! Whoa~!!" Page 2: Luffy reaches the room where Robin had been held, panting from the climb. "Haa..." he breathes. "I'm finally here. I wound up climbing up and down the stairs." But the room is empty, ruined from the earlier crash and battle. He calls, "ROBIN!! HEEEY!! I'M HERE--!!!" then realizes, "They were probably in this room earlier... but nobody's here anymore...!" He decides to head straight for the Gates of Justice. Remembering Lucci, he mutters, "Damn that pigeon guy...!!" and then, "... Oh yeah! I know where they are heading to...!!" Page 3: In another room, Zoro faces Kaku. Zoro asks bluntly, "You have... the key to Robin's handcuffs, right? Why don't you give it to me before you get killed?" Kaku calls that a silly question. Seated calmly, he says, "I've been regretting... that I didn't get to see your real skill in Galley-La Mansion. And I wouldn't have imagined that pirates would come all the way here..." Zoro warns him, "I'm many levels stronger than I was before... so be careful." Kaku answers that he can feel Zoro's spirit, "an ominous beast-like spirit," and says, "Likely so." Page 4: Kaku sees Zoro's sword style and remarks, "Nitoryu*, huh?" Zoro answers, "You're a scary man... But... my swordsmanship is the best in CP9... don't underestimate me." The note marks it as "Two Swords Style." Kaku leaps from his chair and attacks with "Rankyaku," sending a slicing kick through the room. Zoro meets the attack head-on, and the room explodes into flying furniture and shattered stone. Page 5: Kaku corrects Zoro's assumption with a grin. "Sorry, but actually, Yontou*." The note explains, "Four Swords." Zoro bites down on his third sword and answers, "No problem. Now I remember that your whole body is a weapon." Kaku grips his two swords while using his legs like blades, and the duel shifts into a four-sword assault against Zoro's three-sword stance. Page 6: Zoro and Kaku trade slashes in a blur, the fight turning the elegant room into a storm of blades and footwork. Kaku uses his legs like extra swords while gripping two blades in his hands, raining attacks from above and below. Zoro braces with three swords and counters from the floor, sparks and slashes cutting across the panels. As they close in again, Zoro prepares "72-Pound" while Kaku prepares "Rankyaku," the two attacks crossing at the same instant. Page 7: Zoro's "Cannon" and Kaku's "Hakurai" collide in a burst of force. The note calls Hakurai "White Thunder." Kaku vanishes with "Soru," and Zoro barely tracks the movement as Kaku reappears and attacks again. Zoro catches the strike, but Kaku is impressed rather than shaken. Zoro asks, "Are you trying to make a fool of me?" Kaku replies, "No... I'm impressed... If you're in such a hurry, then allow me to show you my new 'ability.'" Page 8: Kaku begins his new transformation, and Zoro watches warily as the shape of his opponent changes in the middle of battle. The room fills with motion: long, dark limbs, sweeping kicks, and slicing arcs tear across the floor and walls. Zoro dodges and braces through the chaos, trying to read what Kaku has become before the next strike lands. The fight no longer feels like a simple sword duel; Kaku's whole body is becoming a weapon in a new and unpredictable way. Page 9: Kaku continues pressing Zoro, sweeping across the room with the strange reach of his changing body. He laughs, "... Wahaha! This is fun!" but Zoro refuses to treat the duel like play. "I have no time for games." Kaku answers with another "Rankyaku," sending a slash tearing toward him, and Zoro challenges him directly: "Then why don't you come and get me?" Their fight keeps ripping up the striped floor and walls as Kaku's new power begins to show, stretching the distance and angles of every attack. Page 10: Kaku unleashes "Ran*!!!" and the note identifies it as "Chaos." The attack fills the room with wild, intersecting slashes. Zoro is forced back and asks, "How can he control that slashing technique so easily...!?" Elsewhere, a blast shakes the tower and someone cries, "OOOOOOH WAAAAH!!!" A startled observer asks, "WHA!? WHAT IS IT!?" Kaku, still calm, says, "No... I'm impressed... If you're in such a hurry, then allow me to show you my new 'ability.'" Page 11: Chopper enters a strange room that feels almost outdoors, with trees, rocks, grass, and a sleeping Jabra at the center. He thinks, "This room has... far too much gardening...!! It's almost like being outside here." Then he catches himself:...