## One Piece Chapter 458, pages 10-11: Just Not the Afro! - Chapter: 458 - Pages: 10-11 - Characters: Brook, Ryuma, Gecko Moria, Absalom ### Summary Page 10: Brook and Ryuma clash. Ryuma's body uses the same sword style as Brook's, and Brook recoils, shouting, "What is that power...? Isn't this zombie... me!!?" Ryuma laughs, "Yohoho!!!" and Brook admits he cannot keep up. Ryuma explains the cruel advantage: "Although his sword style is the same as mine... I really can cut. If you want to run a little faster, I can cut..." Brook tries to stop him in panic: "Huh... sto... stop it!!! Please don't lay a hand on the afro!!" Ryuma presses the attack anyway, promising, "No matter how many times you come at me, it'll be the same!!" The joke of the chapter becomes deadly serious because Brook's greatest fear is not pain; it is losing the afro that connects him to Laboon and his old crew. Page 11: Brook begs his own shadow to understand. "...You don't understand why...!? If you are really my shadow... don't you know why this afro is so important!?" He explains the terrible fact of his body: "Since the growth of my body has stopped, I won't be able to grow it back, don't you know that!" Ryuma answers with chilling amusement: "Yohohoho, what is this? I've forgotten all about the days when I followed you!! Because now I have Moria-sama and Absalom-sama as my 'masters.'" For Brook, the sight is almost comic and almost unbearable: "A skeleton whose afro is important to him... is nothing but comical to me!!!" When Ryuma's attack blows Brook away, Brook pleads, "Just not the afro!! Just not the afro!!!" Ryuma only says that Brook has an honest shape and offers to let him run before he leaves the island.