Come On Out, Strawhats!!

In the ruined hall, Hogback stares at Cindry and loses control of his certainty. "Hey, hey, what happened, Cindry-chan!?" he shouts. "Your body can't move? What on earth are you saying!? And stop those false tears of yours!!" Cindry stands still with tears running down her stitched face and whispers, "My body... can't move..." Hogback insists that obeying her master is the only meaning to a zombie's existence, but she answers with the fact he cannot explain: she has a soul and can move her body, yet the tears keep falling. Chopper asks, "Who do you think is responsible for that!?"

Robin interprets Cindry's tears with quiet clarity: "It's just as if the owner of the body is resisting." Chopper thinks it through, saying that although the person herself died ten years ago, even a soulless body may still have a will. Robin adds that this is something one would not know even after researching in all the libraries in the world. Hogback, delighted for the wrong reason, cries, "Yes, that's right! You finally regained your sanity, Cindry-chan!! Alright!! Buy me enough time until I manage to escape!!" But Robin restrains Cindry with "Doce Fleur!!!" and says, "Unfortunately, although we imagined some kind of miracle..." while Cindry struggles and gasps, "Agh!!"

The hall shakes violently. Hogback screams, "Ugh!" as the whole room lurches, and then asks, "What's this shaking!? Is it that Oz again?" Chopper turns on him with fury: "Unu... damn!! You pirate deer...!! By behaving like a normal human being, you are holding the shoulder of a 'corpse'!!! Although, you'll never be considered a human being, you beast bastard!!!" Chopper answers without backing down. Their captain may be a beast or a cyborg, or a magical beast, a pervert, or a negative person; he says Oars will be accompanied by anything, and he will not need quiet corpse subordinates like Hogback's zombies.

The floor gives way, and Chopper grabs Hogback. Robin calls, "Robin!!" and says, "It's fine, leave it to me!" She sprouts legs with "Pierna Fleur!!" and lifts them upward, while Hogback flails and shrieks, "Woooooooh!!!" The doctor panics, "Wai, wai, wait a minute, what are you doing, Dr. Chopper!? If we fall from this height, you might hurt my head, too! The world's fortune!! You'll be destroying the brains of a prodigy!!!" Chopper answers with cold disgust: "I don't care!! What is more rotten than zombies is... what's inside your head!!! Eat this! 'Robiccho Suplex'!!!"

Elsewhere in the same mansion, in the special refrigerator, Luffy sees Oars and can barely believe his eyes. "... He is much bigger than a giant... Is this it!? My zombie!?" Oars stands over him, massive and stitched, and Moria laughs, "Kishishishi, I've been waiting, Oz...!!" He explains that Oars's body and Luffy's shadow have finally become familiar with each other and asks, "Did you become an 'obedient zombie'?" Luffy demands, "Answer me!! Who is your master?" Oars, breathing heavily, answers with terrifying obedience: "My master is... Moria-sama!!!"

Luffy explodes at Oars's answer: "Hey!! What did you say!? Are you really my shadow!? Don't listen to what that guy says!!! What is it? You are that Strawhat!!!" Moria laughs, "Kishishishi...!! So I'll give you the first mission you should commemorate!!" He identifies the people currently running around Thriller Bark as the "Strawhat's crew" and orders Oars to beat them all without mercy and get them to their ship. He does not care if they die; those who got past one hundred million will not die just by getting beaten. Oars replies, "Yes, Moria-sama," while Luffy notices, "... Ah! There, a Strawhat!!!"

Moria flees with a grin, calling, "Good bye, Strawhat!!" Luffy shouts, "Ah! You are running away!!" but Oars tries to imitate Luffy's rubber technique, stretching his arm and crying, "Go~~~mu~~~ go~~~mu~~~no~~~!" The attempt fails because it will not stretch, and Luffy panics at the danger anyway: "Kane~~~!!! Wait a minute, that's dangerous!!!" Oars drops a huge attack into the building, sending the floor and walls collapsing. Robin watches the destruction and asks if this is Luffy; Chopper and the others realize the floor is collapsing and call, "Chopper, come here!!" while someone cries, "Oz~~~~!!! Luffy's zombie!!!"

Hogback and Cindry fall through the collapsing floor beneath the enormous force of Oars's attack. Someone reports, "Hogback and Cindry both fell to the floor beneath!!" Hogback groans under the weight of rubble: "Damn...! Heavy...!!!" and then panics as Oars approaches, "Cindry-chan!!! Get this stone out of the way!! Quickly...!! Hurry!!! Save me!!!" Cindry tries to move, but only whispers, "Again...!!" and "My body... won't move..." Hogback yells that he is her master and that she should save him quickly, but she answers only with silence and the sound of resistance. He rages, "You zombies have no will, only loyalty!!"

For a moment, Cindry's face is overlaid with the memory of Victoria Cindry's living smile. Below, Hogback screams, "Hey!! Hurry, Cindry!! Oz is coming here...!!" and then turns his terror into abuse: "Oz!!! Look beneath you, you stupid bastard!! It's me!! You ingrate fool! I am the one who remodeled your body so you can move!!!" Oars does not understand. Hogback keeps screaming, "Hey!! Haaaaaaaa!" as the giant's foot comes down and Cindry, still unable to obey, simply watches. The page makes the irony brutal: Hogback treated bodies as tools, and now the largest body he helped restore is about to crush him.

In the corridor to Perona's room, Usopp feels the building shake and panics. "Wai, wai, wait, what, what, what!? This vibration is different in magnitude than the one before...!!!" he shouts as the ceiling acts strangely and debris drops around him. Then Oars crashes through the hallway with a roar, "Dowaaaaaaa~~~!!!" and Usopp runs for his life, screaming, "Luffy's zombie~~~!!!" The corridor erupts into rubble behind him, and the scale of the crisis becomes clear: this is not another small fight inside the mansion, but a giant tearing through the same building everyone is trapped in.

In the church, Sanji holds the unconscious Nami and tries to wake her. "Hey, hey, hey, hey... What is this vibration!?" he says as the room shakes. Oars's huge leg bursts down through the ceiling, and Sanji stares up in disbelief: "Luffy's zombie!? Wooooo!!!! This leg...!! No way!!" He yells, "Nami-san! Wait, this is no time to sleep!!" and decides they have to run, but when he looks back, Nami has disappeared. "Huh? Nami-san!? What!? Nami-san disappeared? What!? Why!?" he cries. The overturned tables and a growl from the darkness reveal that Absalom has used the chaos to take her.

Outside, Oars bellows "Yyooooooooh~~~!!!" while the mansion erupts around him. The Straw Hats and their enemies look on as something massive appears, and someone identifies it: "A zombie!! Luffy's zombie!!" Sanji realizes Absalom has taken Nami and shouts, "Damn, give me back my Nami-san!! What are you!?" Absalom, carrying Nami, laughs that she is still alive and says, "I'll take my bride this time!" He promises to let Sanji play with the strongest zombie while he escapes. Zoro looks up at the giant and mutters, "What is that moron cook doing?" while Brook recognizes the cook who came out with Absalom.

Absalom runs through the church district carrying Nami and laughs, "Kishishishi, so you are gonna chase me till the end!" Sanji, panting with rage, shouts, "Wait~~~!!" and gives chase. Luffy follows Oars with a different urgency: "I'm worried about that huge thing, too. But, to get everyone's shadows back... I have to beat you!! I won't let you run away!!" Moria watches from the church with satisfaction, noting, "The one who laughs in the end is me!! The sleeping pill is working well..." while Absalom says, "Let's get back to where we were... Finish the ceremony with me... haa, my quiet bride...!!"

The special zombies gather in Perona's Wonder Garden, where Perona's followers worry, "Is Perona-sama safe?" and note that she is foaming but seems to have no serious wounds. They report that Kumashi and Vice-Commander were beaten by the Long Nose, and that the special zombies will avenge her. At the same time, the mansion keeps collapsing. The crowd shouts, "Get away from the collapsing mansion!!!" and "The special zombie is fighting~~!!! We can see his head beyond the mansion, he's huge!!" Usopp runs in, yelling, "Ah, Usopp!!" and warns, "Chopper, Robin!! W-w-were in trouble!! Our wanted posters... are in Luffy's zombie's hand!!! He's aiming for all of us!!!"

Oars towers over the garden, arms spread wide, and roars, "Come ooooouuut!!! Strawhats~~~!!!!" Sanji, still pursuing Absalom, snarls, "... So, that bastard is gonna interfere with us!!" Chopper asks Robin, "Luffy, you bastard, are you gonna beat your crew yourself!? Is the real Luffy okay...!?" Brook asks, "What is that thing!? Can we beat it!?" Zoro watches with a grin and says, "Interesting...!!!" The entire crew understands at once that the enemy now hunting them is not merely a giant zombie, but a huge body carrying Luffy's shadow and instincts turned against them.

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