## One Piece Chapter 455: Shichibukai Gecko Moria - Chapter: 455 - Pages: 0-17 - Characters: Enel, Dr. Tsukimi, Brook, Franky, Nico Robin, Talleran, Luffy, Gecko Moria, Hogback, Perona, Absalom, Usopp, Nami, Chopper, Sanji, Zoro, Risky Brothers, Kumashi, Cindry ### Summary Page 0: Chapter 455 is titled "Shichibukai Gecko Moria". The cover story is Enel's Great Space Mission Vol. 22, "The Professor's Revenge!! There are times when a man has to do what a man has to do." On the moon, Dr. Tsukimi's small automatons stand before a towering enemy commander amid smoke and ruined lunar machinery, preparing to fight back for their fallen professor. Page 1: Talleran collapses after Brook's cut, but Franky warns, "It's not over yet. He's still a zombie. Even if you cut him, he'll just get up again." Talleran twitches with a weak "...Ah!!" and stares at Brook, muttering, "... You~~~" before recognition surfaces: "Hmm? Wait...!? I've seen you somewhere before..." Brook is calm. "Yohoho! Don't worry, I've already dealt with that." Franky asks, "Dealt with it?" and Brook answers, "Zombies have a weak point, too!!" Robin, still catching her breath, watches the fallen giant. Brook has not merely wounded Talleran; he has struck at the secret that keeps the dead body moving. Page 2: A black shape rises from Talleran's mouth while he screams, "Haaaaaaaaaaa!!!" Franky shouts, "What is that!?" Brook identifies it at once: "That is the 'soul' of a zombie...!!" Then he corrects the word with practical clarity: "... Soul? You can clearly see it coming out!!" With a gesture, he sends it away: "Well, please return to your master!!" The shadow-like soul shoots into the sky. The spider-mice panic, crying, "Gyaaaaaa!! Commanding officer Tallaren!!!" and "Commanding officer!!! The commanding officer was defeated!!" Talleran's huge body lies empty and still, its stolen animating force gone. Page 3: Franky and Robin stare at Brook. Franky asks, "You stopped him completely... What did you do!?" Brook answers simply, "I purified him." One spider-mouse trembles, "Look!! It's definitely him... 'Humming'!!! The man who messed up Thriller Bark five years ago!!!" As the spider-mice flee to report, Franky realizes another weakness: "Haaaaaa, his spider web is strong against 'power' but weak against fire. That's true, it loosens up." Robin says, "It seems that you know a lot about this island." Brook confirms the danger: "Strawhat and the others were kidnapped!!" Franky asks where to start, and Brook gives the hard truth: "If they have already been caught, there is a high chance that we're already too late." Franky explodes, "Whaat!? Too late, you say!!?" Page 4: Franky gets angry at Brook's blunt warning, but Brook begs for quiet. "Pl-please don't shout so much. My ears will start ringing!!" Franky snaps, "Yohoho!!! Skull joke!!" and Robin dryly says, "Stop it. He's already dead." Brook tries to continue: "Anyways, please listen without fooling around." Franky still mutters, "Stop it. He's already dead." Brook explains his own arrival: "Like I said before, there was a time when my ship's rudder didn't work, and I drifted all alone in the sea for dozens of years... The rudder was broken, so I was just drifting with the tides. As much as I wanted to escape from this 'Devil's Sea'. Then, by chance... I arrived here five years ago. I was lured onto this Thriller Bark, just like you ladies and gentlemen..." Page 5: Brook tells them how he searched the island. "I, who wanted to get out of this 'Florian Triangle' at any cost, went around this island thinking that maybe they had... the parts to fix my rudder. But all I found were monsters and zombies." Eventually, he says, he was caught and brought to a building. Inside, he saw "the struggling dancer who had been caught before me," and "a patched corpse they called 'Mario.'" Brook remembers the moment the horror became clear: "When I looked up, a scary, big man appeared and... he pulled the man's shadow off of the floor!! And he cut it off!!!" Franky and Robin listen as Brook describes the impossible sight of a man's shadow being severed like a physical thing. Page 6: Franky struggles to understand what Brook saw. "He cut off... his shadow...!?" Brook says he would have doubted his own eyes too, but the truth followed quickly. He shouts, "Don't have eyes—!!!" and Franky yells, "Stop it or I'll hit you, you bastard!!!" Robin calmly notes, "You can hit him now." Brook continues: "I soon followed the same fate, but... the person whose shadow was taken fell, and his cut off shadow... was pushed into the motionless 'Mario.'" For some reason, that corpse that should have been dead began to move. The lesson is terrible and precise: the dead bodies are not alive, but they are animated by the stolen shadows of living people. Page 7: Brook explains what a shadow really means on Thriller Bark. Franky asks, "What do you mean!?" Brook answers, "A 'shadow' is... 'another soul' that follows a person wherever he goes....