Cat Claws

The Cat Claws are the main weapons of Kuro. They are first seen vaguely being used against Merry, and then properly seen and introduced against the Nyaban Brothers.

Appearance
The Cat Claws are a pair of furred gloves, at the end of each finger and thumb is a katana blade. This is a reminiscence of overly long cat claws.

Abilities
Due to the length and sharpness of the blades, one swing can inflict multiple aggravating wounds and cut through walls and rocks. However, they may not be durable enough, as Luffy managed to snap the right claw. As a reference to remembering how to kill, Kuro pushes his glasses up with his palm, in order not to scratch his face with his claws.

Kuro primarily uses these giant claws in conjuncture with his superhuman speed to strike his opponents with such swiftness that they will not know what struck them until it is too late; he can reportedly kill 50 highly skilled assassins before they notice his presence.

Though Kuro's raw speed — which is roughly the same as that of CP9's Soru technique — and long claws makes him a deadly fighter, his weakness lies in his inability to see clearly while running, causing him to strike anything his claws randomly connect with, whether it be an enemy, the surroundings, or his subordinates.

Attacks

 * Shakushi (杓死): Kuro's ultimate technique. A fearsome attack that allows him to sweep a large area, killing anything his claws connect with at random, including his own crew. The order in which he inflicts his attacks are so random that they range from mediocre scratches to fatal evisceration to both friend and foe alike. He moves so fast even he does not know what he's attacking, and only stops when tired out (or when someone can catch and physically stop him, as Luffy did). He initiates this move by swaying back and forth sideways in a fluid manner — this is necessary in order to enter the "trance" needed to perform the move. In the anime this move has the side-effect of generating purple clouds of smoke to rise from the ground as Kuro moves at his topmost speed. It is said that he killed many of his own crewmates in the past with this technique. In Unlimited Cruise, Kuro seemed to have refined this attack, by focusing onto his opponent with multiple strikes, rather than a widespread carnage.
 * The name of this attack comes from the Japanese phrase "neko mo shakushi mo" (猫もしゃくしも), which is a Japanese figure of speech, meant to mean "absolutely everything", reflected in the fact that this attack indeed attacks "absolutely everything". The word "Shakushi" is homonym with "Rice Ladle". It's also a pun of the Japanese word, Sakushi which means schemer, hence Kuro's personality.
 * This is called Out of the Bag Attack in the Viz Manga and 4Kids and FUNimation dub, this translation appears to be in reference to the phrase "Cats out of the bag", this is also coincidental to the fact that he uses it after his secret is "out of the bag" and he uses it in an attempt to kill everyone in the area who knows his secret.

Trivia

 * These weapons are possibly based on the real life weapon the Tekagi-shuko, also known as the Neko-te.
 * The Nyaban Brothers fight with similar gloves to that of their captain, albeit much shorter, and are instead long nails as opposed to katana blades.

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