Chapter 448

Snooping through a bedroom decorated with old photographs, Nami, Usopp, and Tony Tony Chopper piece together the tragic record of Victoria Cindry, a celebrated child actress who died in a stage fall more than a decade earlier. The realization that the woman walking around is long dead confirms their dread that the island's inhabitants are corpses brought back to life. Elsewhere, Luffy, Sanji, Roronoa Zoro, Nico Robin, and Franky cross the grounds, bickering and toying with the ghosts that drain their resolve on contact.

A saber-toting figure who laughs exactly like Brook prowls the halls, vowing to seize the trespassers. Out in a graveyard, the Straw Hats flatten a pack of dancing corpses with a combined finishing blow, then grill the buried zombies about their missing crewmates. One of the supposed undead turns out to be a genuinely injured old man who pleads for his stolen shadow to be returned. He names the thief as Gecko Moria.

Robin recognizes the name immediately, revealing that Moria carries a bounty larger than Luffy's and ranks among the Seven Warlords of the Sea. Cindry is established as a once-famous performer who perished ten years prior and now exists as a zombie, and Moria is identified as the one who robbed Brook of his shadow. The cover continues Enel's space serial, opening Spacey's flashback to the day the professor Tsukimi built him on Karakuri Island.