Chapter 484

While the Rolling Pirates tend to comrades Kuma has struck down, Lola calls it cruel that a new Warlord turns up to slaughter them the instant their long fight for their shadows is won. The Rolling Pirates start to rush Kuma, sure he is nothing beside Moria and Oars, but Zoro orders them back, reminding them the Warlord singled him out and warning them not to shame him. Kuma remarks that the crew has built quite a name and that Luffy has assembled skilled hands, drawing bashful pride from the others until Lola tells them not to swell up over it. Ignoring Usopp's plea to stand down while so hurt, Zoro declares that falling here would mark the ceiling of his worth as a man, then attacks, only for Kuma to blink behind him and raise a palm.

Something about that palm strikes Zoro as wrong, and he twists clear; the swat leaves a paw-shaped print stamped in the debris. A second paw blast nearly clips him. As the crew points out the pads on Kuma's hands, Zoro's cannon-style slash is bounced straight back, and he grasps that Kuma can repel anything. Kuma reveals he ate a Devil Fruit that turned him into a paw-man with that very power. Franky scoffs at such a cute-sounding ability until a paw strike drops him, and Robin works out that the Warlord repels the air itself, which is why ordinary fire does nothing. Zoro dodges a thrust-flurry only to have his own counter bounced away, slamming him to the ground. Sanji's heel finds Kuma's face yet only injures his own leg, leaving him to wonder if the body is made of steel, and Usopp's flaming shot is brushed aside as Kuma names the two of them. Tiring of how weak they all are, Kuma offers to spare them in trade for Luffy's head; everyone refuses outright, and he replies with a massive compressed-air attack that erupts in a tremendous explosion.

Kuma is shown to wield the paw fruit, repelling all matter and even air. His seeming invulnerability to Sanji's kick leads the cook to suspect a metal body. The crew's unanimous rejection of the bargain to hand over Luffy triggers the chapter's closing Ursus Shock detonation.