LRAB Chapter 82 west Yan's Conjecture: Powerful Demonic Power!
Chapter 82 west Yan's Conjecture: Powerful Demonic Power!
Chapter 82 west Yan's Conjecture: Powerful Demonic Power!
Zoro was dumbfounded when he saw Luffy and his crew bring back a living skeleton.
Weren't we just going to check on things? Why did we bring this guy back?
"Yohohoho~" Brook laughed loudly, "Hello everyone, I'm Brook, who's just a skeleton now. Nice to meet you all~"
"Are you kidding me?! What the hell is this thing?!" X3
"Yohohohoho~"
"Hey, hey, hey, what were you three up to?" Zoro asked, looking at the three of them. "Why did you let Luffy bring it back?"
"sorry......
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"Haha, isn't this great?" west Yan laughed. "Anyway, our pirate crew is pretty strange to begin with."
"strangeness?"
"Reindeer herder, ship spirit, pervert, lecher..."
"Hello!"
Sanji immediately rushed in front of Xiyan, opened his shark mouth, and roared, "You're not talking about me, are you?!"
Why did you even glance at that bastard when he said the word "pervert"?!
"Hmph, this lecherous cook is quite self-aware, isn't he?" Zoro mocked.
"You bastard, what are you saying, you green-haired baboon?!"
"I'm telling you, you're a pervert!"
"You bastard, take this!"
Enraged, Sanji immediately charged at Zoro, and the two started playing ping-pong on the board, leaving Brook completely stunned.
"Yo-ho-ho-ho, is this some kind of special welcoming ceremony?"
"Hmm..." west Yan said with a complicated expression, "Just take it that way."
"That's really enthusiastic."
"Who's being enthusiastic!" x2
The two, who spoke in perfect unison, exchanged a glance, then snorted and distanced themselves.
"Oh my, look closely, there's a beautiful lady here!" Brooke cleared his throat and walked up to Nico Robin, saying, "Could I please admire your plump...?"
"Shut up, you skeleton bastard!"
Nami punched Brook in the back of the head, knocking him to the ground.
"Hehehe, still as feisty as ever~"
"Oh, there's a beautiful little girl here?" Brooke asked, looking at the somewhat frightened Mary.
He immediately revealed a 'kind' smile.
Mary: ...
Is this guy laughing?
"Feed."
Nami's fist hardened again.
"Hehehe, I won't ask that, don't worry," Brooke said with a chuckle as he got up.
"Hahaha, Brook is really interesting," Luffy said with a loud laugh.
"So you're really not a ghost?" Usopp, dressed in exorcism attire, cautiously approached Brook and pointed the crucifix at him.
"Wow!"
Chopper's eyes lit up immediately. So this is the exorcist master's equipment? So cool!
"Of course I'm not a ghost, I'm terrified of ghosts," Brooke said, feigning fear. "Encountering a ghost while sailing the ocean is a truly terrifying thing."
"Isn't it a ghost...?"
.
"This thing has a physical form, so there's nothing to be afraid of."
west Yan walked over and patted Brooke's skeleton without any hesitation.
Brooke didn't resist, letting west Yan's hand pat her body as if they were old friends who had known each other for many years.
Clearly, Brooke enjoys this feeling of being with people.
"So it really was a skeleton."
Usopp's fear had lessened considerably; at least there were physical targets he could fight.
"Are you a ship spirit?" Melly asked curiously.
"A ship spirit?"
Brooke was visibly taken aback, then asked in surprise, "Why would you ask that?"
As they spoke, Brooke noticed something unusual about Mary; the little girl's ears were noticeably pointed, somewhat resembling those of elves in storybooks.
Could it be... that this little girl is an elf?
"Frankie said that ship spirits might be born in the Devil's Triangle," Merry said, stepping out from behind Nico Robin. "And those ship spirits can't leave this place, it's so pitiful..."
"So I want to free them."
"Is there really such a thing?" Brooke said in surprise. "I'm sorry, I'm not a ship spirit, and I haven't seen any ship spirits in the decades I've been wandering the seas."
"I'm sorry to disappoint you, beautiful little girl."
"I see..." Mary lowered her head and said with some disappointment, "I understand."
She thought she had met someone like her. Even though the other person looked strange, she wouldn't mind making friends with them if they were a ship spirit.
Well, that's not the case... I'm actually quite disappointed.
Seeing Mary's expression, Brooke said, "Think about it carefully, isn't it a good thing that no ship spirit is trapped here?"
"That's true." west Yan nodded and said, "Otherwise, if it were born here, it would be a problem whether it could even get out."
It finally managed to be born into a physical form, but it was unable to escape this terrifying devil's triangle and could only wait to die alone.
How cruel is this?
"Besides, the birth of a ship spirit isn't so easy," Franky said. "At least so far, I've only seen one: Merry."
"To be precise, there are only some legends about ship spirits," Nico Robin added.
She didn't know when the previous generation of ship spirits was born, but at least in the last hundred years, there had only been one ship spirit, Merry.
Mary blinked, and it seemed to be true; it was actually a good thing that no ship spirits were trapped here.
Thinking about this, the little guy became noticeably more cheerful.
"Is this little girl the ship spirit?" Brooke said. "I've really learned something new."
Having lived this long, this was the first time he had ever seen a legendary ship spirit, and it was truly... unexpectedly adorable.
"We've learned quite a bit from you," Sanji remarked.
"So, this guy is our partner now?" Zoro frowned.
"That's right, I've already brought him on board!"
"Luffy...."
"Hahaha, aren't we all getting along quite well?" Luffy said with a loud laugh.
Usopp: ....
Where was the enjoyment? He was the one being threatened from beginning to end, okay? He didn't feel any joy at all.
"Ah, everyone, it's dinnertime now, isn't it?" Brooke said casually as he walked to the cabin door. "Let's enjoy our meal together!"
"Who gave you the right to make that decision, you bastard!"
"But I'm hungry, yay!"
Hearing Brook say that, Sanji took a drag of his cigarette and said, "Then let's wait and see."
Although this skeleton bastard looks rather strange, he genuinely couldn't bear to see anyone go hungry, even if they were a skeleton.
"Yohohoho, thank you so much, Chef!"
Meanwhile, the ghost created by Perona using her Devil Fruit power was hovering above the Thousand Sunny, silently watching the group below.
"This skeleton monster talks just like Ryoma," Perona wondered. "Could Ryoma's shadow come from him?"
Although she didn't know why the skeleton was moving, it didn't stop her from doing what she was supposed to do.
After calling out to the zombie piloting the ship and ordering it to bring the entire island over, she controlled the little ghost to fly downwards.
After entering the restaurant, he lurked in a corner, silently observing the group, waiting for their pirate ship to fall into his trap.
"Yo-ho-ho, it's so great to meet you all!" Brooke exclaimed happily. "This is the happiest I've been in decades."
"I really enjoyed the meal, thank you head chef!"
"Haha, whatever makes you happy," Luffy laughed.
Sanji smiled too; it was something to be happy about that his cooking had been recognized.
"By the way, may I ask your name?"
"Me?" Luffy grinned, showing his teeth. "My name is Monkey D. Luffy, and I'm going to be the Pirate King!"
"The Pirate King, huh?" Brook said with a smile. "That's quite an ambitious goal; no one has ever achieved it before."
"Huh?"
"Brook, don't you know Gol D. Roger, the Pirate King?"
"Roger?"
Brooke paused for a moment upon hearing the name, then lowered his head and thought for a moment before saying, "Back then, there seemed to be a newcomer like this... but I can't quite remember."
"Has this person become the Pirate King? It seems a lot has happened in the last few decades."
Unexpectedly, a Pirate King has appeared in these decades, and it's Roger, whom I only occasionally heard about back then. This really surprised Brook.
"A newcomer..." Zoro looked at Brook in disbelief and said, "Roger is actually a newcomer in your eyes?"
"You must have some impressive background," west Yan said, also finding fault with him.
Gol D. Roger, the Pirate King, shocked the entire world, but in Brook's eyes, he was just a rookie?
Was this guy a top-tier expert before he died?
If that's really the case, then they've truly struck gold this time.
"What do you mean by 'great background'? I'm just an ordinary musician," Brook said with a smile. "But before becoming a pirate, I was indeed the captain of a country's guard."
"Then why did you become a pirate?"
"It's a long story..." Brooke said with some melancholy, "Anyway, after serving as the captain of the guard for a while, I went out to sea with my companions."
Seeing that Brooke didn't seem to intend to elaborate, the others didn't press him further. After all, everyone has a past that's difficult to talk about.
As partners, sometimes we shouldn't pry too much into things, and even Luffy knows that.
"So how did you become a skeleton?" Mary asked curiously. "Shouldn't ordinary people have this kind of ability?"
"Could it be because of... a Devil Fruit ability?"
"Yes, you're right." Brook glanced at Usopp and said, "I survived because of the power of the Devil Fruit."
"This is an ability called the Yomi Yomi no Mi (Revive-Revive Fruit)!"
"The Fruit of the Underworld?"
west Yan clearly showed surprise; the name of this Devil Fruit sounded quite intimidating.
Brook's ability to exist in skeleton form is probably due to the fact that this Devil Fruit involves the power of resurrection.
"That's right, it's the Yomi Yomi no Mi (Fruit of the Underworld)!"
"Oh, excuse me, let me wipe my face first."
Brook, whose face was covered in food, took out a white napkin from his pocket and elegantly wiped the food off his face.
"It's white...."
Franky stared dumbfounded at what Brook was holding. This guy had been wandering the seas for so long...
How can there be such a white meal coin?
"Life needs a sense of ritual," Brooke said with a smile. "Otherwise, I'll go crazy."
Upon hearing this, everyone fell silent.
As mentioned earlier, he hadn't seen a living person in a long time, which means he had spent a considerable amount of time alone.
It's hard to imagine how he managed to persevere and not go crazy.
After carefully stacking the coins neatly, Brooke continued, "Decades ago, my companions and I entered this Devil's Triangle and encountered an incredibly powerful enemy."
"After a fierce battle, we won, but due to poisoning, everyone died that day."
"What I didn't expect was that this Devil Fruit, which had no other use besides making me unable to swim, would actually unleash astonishing power at this moment!"
"Demonic power has summoned my soul back from the underworld. As long as it returns to my body, I can be resurrected!"
"Then why are you in skeleton form?" Sanji asked, puzzled.
It can't be that this guy likes becoming a skeleton, so he was resurrected in this way.
However, Sanji said that he could not communicate and that without a physical body, he would lose the meaning of living.
"Because we're in this area of the sea," Brook sighed. "We never see the sun, and it's always shrouded in fog, so we can't tell which way to go, let alone find a pirate ship."
"I wandered the sea for over a year before finally finding my body, but... by then, I had already turned into a skeleton."
"I was so shocked my eyes practically popped out, even though I don't have eyeballs, yay hohoho~"
"What an astonishing encounter," Franky said. "Is this the power of a Devil Fruit?"
"Even the dead can be resurrected... :．:" west Yan said, stroking his chin, "Then does that mean there's also the ability to make people grow old and never grow ugly?"
"How could that be, you idiot!"
"Hey, what if there is?" west Yan grinned. "Even the Devil Fruit that revives people exists, so why can't there be a Devil Fruit that grants longevity and makes people ugly?"
Upon hearing this, everyone fell silent.
"Don't think about that," Nico Robin said. "Even if we had them, the World Government would take them."
Those guys living in the Holy Land of Mary Geoise wouldn't let go of such a Devil Fruit, so Nico Robin felt the chances were slim.
"Longevity? I don't care about that," Sanji suddenly said. "I want another Devil Fruit instead."
"Oh?"
"What is it?"
west Yan looked at Sanji curiously, not expecting that this guy would also want to eat a Devil Fruit. Didn't this guy like swimming?
"Hey~" Sanji gave a thumbs up, revealing a mouthful of sharp white teeth, and said, "The Clear-Clear Fruit!"
Nami: !!!
"bump!"
"Go to hell, you bastard!"
Nami punched Sanji squarely on the head, knocking him to the ground without mercy.
"Nami's fists are so fast!"
Lying on the ground, Sanji suddenly remembered what Xiyan had told him earlier: perhaps Nami really possessed some kind of magical power.
At least when you're hitting him, you can't dodge it.
Seeing Sanji lying on the ground, Nami opened her shark-like mouth and roared, "You bastard, I absolutely cannot let you eat this kind of fruit!"
"How could this be..." Sanji first said with a pitiful expression, then said with a determined look:
"No, even if it means death, I'll eat it!"
Seeing how determined Sanji was, Nami was actually silenced.
"You bastard, do you have some other reason for eating this Devil Fruit?"
Sanji paused for a moment upon hearing this, then loudly proclaimed, "Of course not! I ate this fruit so that I could openly and honestly bathe..."
Double "Bump!"
"Go to hell, you bastard!"