The Paper Fruit Among the Pirates

  Chapter 176 The Shadow of the Lonely Man Recaptures

   "Yo y y y, hello everyone!"

  On the Sunshine Merley, the exploded skull takes off his hat and introduces himself to everyone.

   "I am Brooke who died with only skeletons left. Please take care of me!"

  "Why did you bring a skeleton back!" X4

   Facing the shocked crowd, Luffy replied with a grin, "How about it, is it fun? I got him aboard!"

  "Get on board?"

  Sauron frowned, the boarding at Luffy’s mouth was ‘coming in’! but:

   "I can't agree!"

  The straw hat group has come along, and friendship has been established in blood and fire! Even Frankie, who just joined, was because the other party enlightened and rescued Robin on Judicial Island, and also saved Melly while building the Wanli Sunshine! Now it's just one person...

   "Roman, why don't you care about Luffy?"

   "Don't panic,"

   Facing Sauron’s unrestrainedness, Roman waved his hand, "You have to trust Luffy’s vision, and—"

  "Do you think Luffy will listen to others in this kind of thing?"

  Luffy never pulls people randomly, because he ‘hears’ Brooke’s voice.

  Simply put, it is Luffy’s knowledge and experience reading Brooke’s decades of ‘loneliness’ and his love for his partners, so Luffy will invite each other decisively.

  "This restaurant is so beautiful, and so is the kitchen~~"

  After sitting with everyone in the dining room of the Golden Merley, Brooke kept talking, as if it was not enough to express his excitement.

  "This ship is amazing, yah yah!"

"certainly,"

  I heard someone praise his masterpiece, Frankie and You Rongyan.

  "You are quite discerning, who made this super awesome ship I made~~"

   "Hey, Frankie, don't catch his compliment."

  Sanji maintains a high level of vigilance against strangers who come from unknown sources. -The premise is that the other party cannot be a beautiful woman.

   "Yo, I haven’t eaten for decades, and I’m so hungry that my chest sticks to my back—"

  "Although I only have bones, I don’t even have the skin on my chest and back~~~"

   "Hahahaha, it's so fun!"

  Luffy is the only one who can laugh so brilliantly in the face of the silly jokes of skeletons. At least everyone else looks like ‘I don’t know what expression to use, I can only smile’.

  Roman understood each other a little bit, all his partners died in front of him, and another person was trapped here for decades. -Brooke is not going crazy, it is considered strong-willed! Even so, I was immersed in the memories and wasted the years...

  People have no pressure, and it really is impossible to get stronger by relying on gossip.

  Shadow was taken away by Moria, but it was considered a ‘fortunate’, at least it could make Brooke divert his attention and find something to do.

   "Right, Krub—"

  "My name is Brook..."

   "So, haven't you asked your name?"

   "I am Luffy, this is Roman, Sauron..."

   "You don't even know each other's name?"

  Sauron is furious!

  So you can pull people on the boat? Why do you make us old people feel so bad? ?

  "Don't panic," Roman calmly stopped Sauron. Luffy's natural knowledge and color allowed him to distinguish who is an enemy, who is a friend, and who is a partner.

   "If you have anything, let's talk about it after we finish eating."

  "Hey, hey, you can eat as a skeleton," Sanji glanced dissatisfiedly at Brooke on the dinner table, "Why are you eating so messy?"

  —This is very simple, because Brooke really hasn’t eaten in decades.

  Although I drink tea every day with an empty cup, eating has been a very long time for Brooke. It is so long that I am full of food like a child.

   "Forget it, Sanji."

  Roman ordered the table, and a stack of napkins automatically flew in front of everyone.

   "Let’s say something else, such as Brooke’s identity—"

  Wow~~

  A wanted order appeared in Roman’s hands. Of course, this wanted order was ‘painted’ by Roman himself. Although it is definitely different from the real wanted order, no one on the scene will point out this error.

   "The acting captain of the Rumba Pirates: Brooke."

  In the hands of Roman, it is a wanted order for an exploded man with small round sunglasses. The iconic top hat, exploded head, and gown all explain:

  "Is this... Brooke's wanted order?"

   "Yes," Roman clicked below, "33 million Bailey's bounty."

   "Of course, this is 3,300 fifty years ago, and it will more than double at least now."

  Who is making this world inflation more and more serious? Lao Sha was only 81 million Baileys, but how many of the hundreds of millions of pirates in the New World dare to shake in front of Lao Sha?

   "Yeah, it turns out that someone still remembers the name underneath. I am really grateful."

  "Unfortunately, I am dead. This is my wanted order decades ago."

  Brook looked at his own ‘portrait’ sighing,

"My crew and I fought with people here, and they all died of poisoning. And because I ate the'Yellow Spring Fruit', my soul came back from Huangquan and had a second life.-As a result, I lost my way in this sea. , When the soul finds its own body, it has become like this..."

   "Sauron, he is just like you~~"

"What did you say?!"

   "It turned out to be a devil fruit... Wait!"

  Nami suddenly reacted, and she looked at the exploded skull man in disbelief, "Are you from the Rumba Pirates?!"

   "It's true—"

   "It's the Rumba Pirates that Raab has been waiting for for fifty years!?"

  ? !

  "Rab·····"

  This familiar name made Brooke stand up. The reason why he has not gone mad up until now, has not completed the agreement with Rab, is his motivation to live!

  "Have you seen... Rab?"

   Facing the trembling Brook, Luffy patted his belly.

   "Of course, the Rab we met in Shuangzixia, where he hit the red earth continent every day, and almost knocked us all!"

   "By the way, we still met Uncle Kurokas in Rabu's stomach! I also had a fight with Rabu..."

"Yes?"

   Standing up, Brook lowered his head, a sincere voice in his slightly trembling figure.

   "Thank you, thank you!"

  The Rumba Pirate Group has been completely wiped out. Brook's only concern in this world is the whale Rab who has followed them into the great route. Why didn't he want to go back to see this last partner for so many years? but:

  Whether Rab is alive, whether Kurokas of Twin Gorge is still alive, and once agreed with the other party to reunite around the world for a week, carrying the last wish of the entire pirate group, how can he go back in a desperate way...

  Tick, tick,

   "Hey, hey? Brook, you are crying!"

   "Ah, sorry," Brooke raised his head to look at the young pirates in front of him, wiping the tears from his hollow eyes.

   "I want to thank you again: Thank you, thank you very much~~"

   "Not only did I meet a living person after a long absence, but I was also invited to have a full meal," Brooke straightened his hat.

  ?

  "Here is a guy hunting people's shadows everywhere! Very dangerous..."

   Picking up the cane beside him, now that he knows that Rab is still waiting for his news, Brook is determined not to be decadent anymore, he must regain his shadow, and then surround the world for a week to complete the agreement with Rab!

  Brook looked at Luffy, he still remembered the other party let him board the boat.

   "Your invitation, I forgive me for rejecting it."

"Why-"

   "Because my shadow has been taken away, I cannot appear in the sun, or it will be wiped out.-So I cannot be your partner."

   "Why do you see outsiders like this?"

  Luffy stood up anxiously.

   "Whoever took your shadow, we will help you take it back!"

  ······

   "You are such a good person, but I can't hurt you—"

  Boom~~~

  At this moment, the Sunshine Merley shook suddenly, causing everyone to subconsciously look towards:

   "Roman?"

   "Ah, don't panic." Roman waved his hand, "Someone invited us to visit his house."

  ? ?

brush-

  Brook was the first to rush out of the cabin at a very fast speed, and the rest of the straw hat group also rushed out immediately, and the sight was an island!

  Remnant eaves and broken walls, old trees and faint crows, and a gothic building in the distance! Everything is visible in the mist, like a real haunted house scene, and like a dark fairy tale.

   "This is...Oops!"

  Behind everyone’s boat, is a slowly closing ‘giant mouth’—or a giant valve. The vibration just now was caused by the closing of the ‘wall’ outside the island.

  Sunshine Merley has been trapped here!

   "Hurry up and try to find a way to open the valve behind and leave!"

  Brook looked at this gloomy island, and war was ignited in the hollow skull eyes.

   "I'll hold it—"

Snapped,

  A palm fell on his shoulder, making Brooke startled! Roman's calm voice sounded behind him.

   "If I am not mistaken, this is the home of Qiwuhai's Moonlight Moria."

  ? !

   "What? It's another Qiwu Sea!"

  The other people in the straw hat group frowned. Is this Qiwuhai worthless or what's the matter? How long did it take to meet the second one...

   "Moonlight Moria, the person with the ability of shadow and fruit, think of it as the one who took the shadow of Brooke. So—"

  Roman placed one hand on the opponent's shoulder and ‘retained’ Brooke, and the other hand had his thumb backward.

  "Don't underestimate my captain,"

  Behind is Luffy gearing up and eager to try!

   "It's just a Qiwuhai. — You think so, Luffy?"

"certainly,"

   "Brook! I will help you regain your shadow!-Then you will be our partner."

"you·······"

   "Alright," Roman waved his hand, and a white table appeared on the deck with a clattering sound, and the table was a rolling wooded building, which was a shrinking sand table of an island not far away!

  "Come on, Moria's dungeon is open! I will explain the quick-swipe clearance strategy~~~"

  ? ? ? X9

  (End of this chapter)