Brook

On the tranquil sea, a pirate ship was fleeing for its life in panic. Not far behind it lay a sea region filled with darkness.

Most astonishingly, that sea region was actually surging forward without pause, as though it had come alive and intended to swallow the pirate ship whole.

"We’re done for! We’re definitely going to die this time!"

"Quit whining and row! If it catches us, then we’re really dead!"

"That’s the Florian Triangle! No ship it targets has ever escaped!"

"Then row already if you want to live!"

The entire pirate ship was in chaos. As they watched the black mist draw ever closer, the pirates were practically on the verge of tears.

However, at that moment, a black speck faintly appeared in the distance. Since the two ships were heading toward each other, the pirates soon saw the pirate ship on the other side.

"Isn’t that the flag of the Whitebeard Pirates?!"

"Are you kidding? Why would a pirate crew like that appear in the first half of the Grand Line?"

"Stop talking! Run for your lives!"

"Is that pirate ship heading for the Florian Triangle?"

"Oh no! It caught up to us!"

Right before the eyes of everyone aboard the Azure Dragon, the boundless black fog engulfed the entire unnamed pirate crew. The pirates’ screams rang clearly in their ears.

Charlotte Pudding shivered as she squeezed up beside Yota. "Um… maybe we shouldn’t go in? Something feels wrong."

Yota rolled his eyes. "Of course something’s wrong. The black fog in the Florian Triangle isn’t dangerous. Even if those pirates get sucked in, nothing will happen to them."

What truly kept people from escaping the Florian Triangle was Gecko Moria. That black fog was merely ordinary fog at most capable of making people lose their way. Those pirates had acted as though it were deadly sulfuric acid, which Yota found rather amusing.

"Let’s go in directly. Gecko Moria supposedly has plenty of zombies under him… which is perfect. I’ve been wanting to test out some special abilities." Ignoring the trembling Charlotte Pudding leaning against him, Yota had everyone sail straight into it.

Strangely enough, they had entered the Florian Triangle only moments apart from that unnamed pirate crew, separated by no more than a hundred meters at most. Yet once inside the Florian Triangle, they could no longer see the other ship or even hear its crew.

"So this is the Florian Triangle? Violet, how far can you see?"

Violet frowned, forming hand seals with both hands. Veins bulged at the corners of her eyes as she activated her Byakugan ability.

The Glint-Glint Fruit could see far, but when using Clairvoyance, it could not use its X-ray vision. Once combined with the Byakugan, however, that flaw was completely made up for.

"This black fog doesn’t seem like ordinary mist. Even with the Byakugan, I can only vaguely see through some of it."

"That’s fine." Yota spoke directly. "Gecko Moria’s giant ship is practically the size of an island. You should be able to spot its outline easily."

"Oh, now that you mention it, I really do see an island shaped like a ship. So that’s Gecko Moria’s Thriller Bark?"

"But are you sure it’s Gecko Moria’s pirate ship? How did a pirate ship that large get over Reverse Mountain? Even if he got the ship in the Grand Line, how did he get to the New World?"

"Who could even coat a ship that big?"

How would I know how Gecko Moria got to the New World? It was probably another bug Oda left behind, or perhaps one of Gecko Moria’s old companions had some way to make his ship fly?

"I’m not too sure about those questions either, but that isn’t important. Just hurry up and guide us," Yota said to Violet.

Violet had merely asked a few questions. With the guidance of her Glint-Glint Fruit, the Azure Dragon soon arrived near Gecko Moria’s pirate ship.

"It’s huge. It really does look almost like an island."

"Wait, why do I hear a violin? There’s a small Ghost Ship over there." As though she had sensed something, Charlotte Pudding turned her head and saw a skeleton covered in white bones playing the violin aboard the Ghost Ship in the distance.

"Waaah! What the hell is that thing?!"

It was not just Charlotte Pudding. Even Violet, Kyros, and the others were startled by the sight before them.

However, the reactions of people like Kyros, Ulti, and Page One after being startled were completely different from Charlotte Pudding’s.

Kyros was the first to act, slashing out a Flying Slash that nearly blew apart the white skeleton’s skull and cut off quite a bit of his hair.

Before the skeleton could speak, Ulti had already leaped onto the Ghost Ship. Pitch-black Haki appeared around her head as her body transformed into a partial dinosaur form.

Ulti Mortar!

After a chaotic barrage of attacks, all that remained on the Ghost Ship was a pile of bones.

"Hah, what was that? It was that easy? So it could only scare people, huh?" Ulti let out a breath, then spoke disdainfully.

"Ahhh, help! My bones, my bones are flying everywhere! My head fell off! I’m dead, I… oh, I’ve already died once."

"This guy isn’t dead yet!" Ulti said in surprise, preparing to raise her foot and grind the skeleton to dust.

"Wait!" Yota hurriedly stopped Ulti from preparing to beat Brook’s corpse. "He isn’t some monster! He’s a Devil Fruit user!"

"Oh?" Only then did Ulti stop her raised dinosaur foot and ask curiously, "What Devil Fruit is it? Could it be a Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Skeleton Form? But that would be way too pathetic!"

"No, no, I am not a Human-Human Fruit user. My Devil Fruit ability is the Revive-Revive Fruit, which allows me to revive once after death," Brook hurriedly explained.

"However, when I revived, I did not find my body right away. By the time I did, it had already become a skeleton, which is why I look like this."

"Ah!? That sounds even more pathetic. You revived but couldn’t even find your own body?" Charlotte and Pudding could not help mocking him.

Yota nodded in deep agreement. Compared to his Eight-Headed Serpent Fruit, the Revive-Revive Fruit was pathetic when it came to resurrection.