## One Piece Chapter 459, pages 5-6: Death Doesn't Count as an Apology - Chapter: 459 - Pages: 5-6 - Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Brook, Usopp, Franky, Nico Robin, Tony Tony Chopper ### Summary Page 5: The crew praises the discovery of the zombies' weakness, and Luffy suddenly brightens when he hears another name. "What!? You met Brook!?" Usopp explains that it was the skeleton who told them about the weakness, then came to get them first. Franky describes how, when he asked Brook a rather rude question and tried to make him a comrade, Brook rejected it by denying the completeness of his own existence. Even so, after speaking with him, Franky was convinced: "He's a real man!!!" Franky begins walking away while the others call after him to answer the question. The page turns Brook from a strange skeleton into someone with weight and dignity; whatever his secret is, it was enough to earn Franky's respect immediately. Page 6: Franky challenges the way Brook has been living. He asks whether Brook knows how people react when he appears with that appearance, calling him "A talking skeleton...? Becoming friends... with such a disgusting being?" and warning that anyone who goes in front of people like that will be stained with shame. Brook listens silently while Franky presses deeper: "Even if you get out of this evil sea... you'll follow the same fate as those years of despair you wasted here." Franky repeats Brook's own words back to him: "You said, 'I'm lonelier than death,' didn't you? If I were you, I'd have given up long ago." But he does not say it to insult him. He tells Brook not to hide the vital part from them and asks him to continue living like a gentleman long enough to explain the promise he made to his nakama.