## One Piece Chapter 452: Jigoro of the Wind - Chapter: 452 - Pages: 0-16 - Characters: Enel, Dr. Tsukimi, Franky, Brook, Nico Robin, Zoro, Sanji, Luffy, Jigoro, Talleran ### Summary Page 0: Chapter 452 opens with the title "JIGORO OF THE WIND". The cover story is Enel's Great Space Mission Vol. 20, "A Break Full of Tears from Tsukimi": on a quiet, petal-strewn ground, the small space automatons mourn around an open coffin where Dr. Tsukimi lies peacefully, buried in flowers. Page 1: Inside the strange hall, the empty armor that should have contained Zoro and Sanji moves by itself, clanking forward with a heavy, unnatural presence. Franky stares at it and mutters, "Where did they disappear to..." then, as the armor looms, "What on earth are they...?!" Brook's zombie body, still carrying Franky's personality, snaps at the absent swordsman and cook: "Damn Zoro and Sanji. What are you doing at such a time?!" Nico Robin watches in silence as Franky complains that there was already armor standing there, "and it's a man's romance to wear one!!" Brook answers dryly, "You got your hands on a body of steel... Did you lose your heart at the same time?" Franky wavers, "Romance?! ...Well, maybe," and even apologizes: "Please forgive me!! I didn't plan to change my heart into a heart of steel, too!!" Page 2: Franky's stolen voice tries to turn the situation into a performance. Strumming Brook's guitar, he announces, "--The melody that blows through my heart when I lose something important... Please listen. 'The Cyborg Steel Mood'." Brook, horrified by the absurd timing, asks, "Don't they understand the situation?" while the little pig-faced zombie mutters, "We got into the hall..." and Franky calls, "Alright!! Sing!!" The mood shifts when Robin studies the space and says, "..." Brook's face, marked 298, gives a nervous "Buhihi." Franky asks, "Are Usopp and the others there?" Robin answers, "I don't know." Then she realizes the architecture is wrong: "It seems like we're outside, even though we're in the middle of the hall." Before them, the chamber opens into an enormous enclosed stage. Brook cries, "What is that?!" and Franky concludes, "It's like an arena...!!" Page 3: The answer drops from above. A shadowed armored warrior descends along the wall, and Brook can only stare, "!?" The pig-faced zombie giggles, "Buhihihi, it's not that simple, buhi." The armored figure crashes down between them and Franky is startled into shouting, "Whoa!!!" Brook recognizes the body before the others do and yells, "Franky!!!" Robin asks, "...!! Who is it?!?!" while the fallen armor gives only "..." The page turns the confusion into danger: the thing that looks like Franky in armor is moving with intent, and the real Franky, trapped inside Brook's zombie body, is forced to face a corpse carrying his own shadow. Page 4: The armored corpse stands upright with swords and spears still stabbed through its body. Franky cries, "Wooo!! It's a moving armor!!" Brook immediately sees the truth: "...It's definitely a zombie...!! He's moving even though his body is stabbed with spears..." The zombie has good armor, Franky admits: "That zombie has some nice armor...!!" But he refuses to be intimidated. When the armored corpse lunges, Franky shouts, "Don't surprise me!!!" and fires his signature attack from Brook's body: "Strong Right"!!! His extended fist smashes forward, but the armored zombie takes the blow and remains a threat, forcing Franky to fight against a body that does not react like a living opponent. Page 5: The armored zombie answers Franky's punch with swordsmanship. Its blade flashes with a sharp "girara!" and Franky gasps, "Haa?!" as the weapon is drawn and swung in a blur. The exchange becomes pure speed: Franky yells "Whoa!!!" while the corpse's sword cuts through the arena with enough force that the wall itself splits apart. Franky is knocked back and realizes, "...!! The wall was...!!!" He catches the zombie's form in his sights and admits, "His sword skills are pretty good...!!" The fight is now clearly more than brute strength. Whoever's shadow is inside that dead body knows how to use a blade, and Franky has to read attacks coming from a heavily armored corpse that should not be able to move at all. Page 6: Franky changes weapons without hesitation. From Brook's body he unleashes "Weapons Left"!!! and blasts the armored zombie point-blank. The explosion catches the target, and the others stare at the impact: "!!!" But the zombie endures, smoke rising around the armor. When Franky rushes in again, the corpse counters with its sword, and the two clash at close range. Franky is thrown across the hall, but he forces himself back into the fight with a shocked "!!?" The body he is using is weaker and stranger than his own, and every exchange reminds him that his usual cyborg confidence does not translate cleanly into Brook's stolen zombie body. Page 7: The armored zombie drives its blade into Franky with brutal precision. Franky cr...