## One Piece Chapter 465: Pirate Usopp vs Princess Perona - Chapter: 465 - Pages: 0-18 - Characters: Enel, Usopp, Perona, Kumashi, Sogeking, Gecko Moria ### Summary Page 0: Chapter 465 opens with the title "Pirate Usopp vs Princess Perona." The cover story continues Enel's Great Space Mission, Vol. 30, with the caption "What's Sleeping in the Moon's Basement?" Enel stands at the mouth of a dark opening under the moon ruins, peering into the basement as if the answer to his strange lunar journey is hidden below. Page 1: Perona hovers outside the tall window as naturally as if the air itself belongs to her, and Usopp, still rattled, shouts, "You!! Why are you flying?" She answers with her eerie laugh, "Horo horo horo horo...!!" and admits, "I just got caught in the moment. I never thought that there would be a bastard who wouldn't be affected by the negative ghosts...!!" Usopp looks up at her and snaps, "What's with that composure...!!" Perona reminds him that his courage has not looked very impressive: "Don't act brave...!! You were running away just now..." But Usopp plants himself, points back at her, and says there is one thing he has to tell her. Page 2: Usopp's answer is absurdly earnest: "Good things will happen." Perona screams, "Leave me alone!!!" but Usopp raises his new weapon and declares, "Even though you are flying, that doesn't mean I can't do anything!! I'm a sniper!! Whether you fly or dance, it doesn't matter!" He explains Kabuto with sudden pride: its five supportive stems improve stability and range, the Sky Island "Press Dial" activates when he fires, and added rotation lets the bullet change speed into a super pachinko shot; by choosing "flame," "flash," or "impact" dials, the shot gains even more power. He fires, only for Perona to vanish. Usopp cries, "Gone!!! Where did she go!?" and she answers from behind him, "Horo horo... Behind you." Page 3: Behind Usopp, Perona swells into a gigantic, terrifying apparition. Calmly, she tells him, "Shoot me already." Usopp screams, "Dowaaaaa!!!" and tries to force courage into his shaking hands: "Bastard... Hi... hi... hissatsu!!!" He launches "Ageha Ryusei!!!" and the page notes it as a Swallowtail Meteor, but Perona's enormous shape only laughs, "Horo horo horo..." When Usopp sees the attack fail to solve anything, panic overtakes him. "Eeeeeh!!? Wha!! Wh-wha!!" he stammers, while Perona's huge face looms over him like a nightmare that refuses to behave like a normal enemy. Page 4: Usopp's shot tears into the apparition and bursts, but Perona is not harmed. The enormous image contracts back into her usual form, leaving Usopp staring in confusion: "...? ...!? She changed back...!!" He switches tactics and fires "Kamakiri Ryusei!!!" the Mantis Meteor, hooking a line toward her so he can drag her down. "I'll pull you down!!!" he shouts as the cord snaps taut. Perona keeps laughing, "Horo horo horo..." and Usopp strains against the line, furious that the fight refuses to obey simple rules. "Bastard..." he growls, trying to turn sniping into a tug of war against a floating ghost princess. Page 5: The struggle turns stranger when Perona's body closes the distance and slips straight through Usopp's defenses. He freezes with a small, stunned "Eh..." and then chokes out "Gih..." as her hands enter his chest without tearing skin or cloth. Terror explodes out of him: "Gyaaaaaaa~~!!! Her hands... went inside me!!!" Perona, almost pleased by how frightening the illusion is, tells him, "Fool, look closely. There's no external injury, yet my hands are inside your body." The horror is not blood or wounds; it is that Usopp can feel the impossibility of her touch while seeing that nothing physical has been broken. Page 6: Perona pushes the fear as far as it will go. With her hands seemingly buried around Usopp's heart, she tells him, "But the fact you'll die soon is true. Right now my hands are around your heart. And I'm going to smash it!!!" Usopp coughs and panics, "Gehoh... oo!! Stop!!!" He begs, "Stop, please. I'm really going to die!!!" and then, in pure terror, "No, please stop... Haa... Shtop!!" Perona announces, "Now, die in pain and anguish!!" Usopp collapses under the imagined execution, choking out, "I don't want to d..." as his own fear almost finishes what her hands cannot. Page 7: Just as Usopp believes his heart is about to be crushed, Perona casually reveals the truth: "But I can't do things like that." Usopp snaps back to life, realizing, "It was a bluff!!!" Perona laughs, "Horo horo horo horo...!! If I were to have that kind of physical power, you would've died the moment I pierced you with my hands." Usopp, drenched in fear, mutters that either way, "that's bad for my heart...!!" Perona explains that her hand only passed through his body, and when her head floats separately before him, Usopp screams, "Gyaaa a severed head!!!" She makes the rule plain: even if he can see her, this body can go through anything. Page 8: Usopp refuses to give up...