Chapter 473

Nami leaves the electrocuted Risky Brothers behind and sprints from the Mast Mansion, determined to stop Perona from making off with the ship and treasure. She spots Oars collapse across another bridge and hurries on, pretending she saw nothing. The giant grows angrier at the crew, then realizes his own horns have wedged him into the ground after his upside down fall. Grinning, the crew piles on while he is helpless, until he tears free. Chopper and Usopp bait him with a fake meat sighting so Zoro and Franky can buckle his knees.

Franky urges the crew to merely stall Oars until Luffy beats Moria, but Zoro intends to settle it himself, eager to test his new black blade Shusui. Nami catches Perona at the island's edge, only for a towering figure to loom behind the Ghost Princess. Perona names him Bartholomew Kuma of the Seven Warlords, then prepares to fight, but Kuma removes a glove and makes her vanish with a single touch. Recognizing Nami as the Cat Burglar, he confirms through her that Luffy has a brother named Ace, then departs. Elsewhere, Luffy catches only another of Moria's Doppelman shadows.

Set in the Thriller Bark Arc, the chapter has Zoro and Sanji resolve to defeat Oars rather than stall, Kuma make Perona disappear, and Kuma show pointed interest in Luffy's link to Portgas D. Ace. The cover continues Enel's Great Space Operations, with Enel surveying his Fairy Vearth and the loyal automata. The Risky Brothers and Unigaro also appear.