Ghosts Fear the Wicked

Still, regardless of whether the Revive-Revive Fruit was his little brother, Yota was very interested in it.

After all, it was one of the rare fruits that involved the soul. In a sense, its essence was exceptionally high-level.

But right now, Brook was relying entirely on the Revive-Revive Fruit to keep himself alive. If Yota directly extracted the Revive-Revive Fruit, Brook would drop dead on the spot.

"Yohohohohoho! I haven’t seen a living person in a very long time!"

Aboard the Azure Dragon, Brook danced around, occasionally drawing his violin bow.

"My name is Brook. I used to be a member of the Rumba Pirates. Now I’m the only living member left… though I’m not actually alive!"

As Brook told everyone about his background, he spun around here and there. When he reached Violet, he suddenly asked, "Miss, may I see your panties?"

After a brief silence, Violet’s face darkened as she kicked Brook’s head flying.

After rolling several times, Brook’s head came to a stop by Pudding’s feet. "Ah, beautiful miss, actually, I’d like to see your pa—eh? What are you doing?"

"Nothing. I just want to take a look at your memories." A sinister smile appeared on Pudding’s face as she reached down and grabbed Brook’s head.

"I wonder whether a skeleton’s memories are the same as a normal person’s? You don’t even have any brains, do you?"

As soon as she spoke, Charlotte Pudding casually pulled out Brook’s memories and began examining them carefully.

After obtaining the Rinnegan, Pudding found examining memories incredibly easy. Once she used the Sharingan, no matter how extensive the memories were, she could copy them in an instant.

"Let’s see… this lecherous skeleton was actually telling the truth. He used to be the captain of a certain kingdom’s guard, then later joined the Rumba Pirates. Mm, and his musical skill really is quite high."

"Oh, no wonder he’s stayed in the Devil’s Triangle all this time. Gecko Moria stole his shadow, so he’d turn to ash the moment he saw sunlight?"

By the time Charlotte Pudding returned his memories to his skeletal head, Brook was already a little withdrawn. He hid in a corner of the ship, drawing circles. Why did the three beautiful women aboard this ship all seem harder to deal with than the last?

One had nearly stomped him into bone meal fertilizer, one had kicked his head away, and one had directly seized and peeked through his memories. All he wanted was to see those beautiful women’s panties. Wasn’t it a bit too tragic to be targeted like this?

"Hey, Brook, don’t you want to get your shadow back?" Yota asked as he looked at Brook.

Brook perked up at those words, then revealed a bitter smile.

"To get my shadow back, I’d have to face Shichibukai Gecko Moria. Are you planning to pick a fight with Gecko Moria?"

"It’s no use. That guy isn’t weak, and he has a huge zombie army under his command…"

Yota rolled his eyes. "Quit yapping. I don’t even take Kaido seriously, much less Gecko Moria, who lost to one of Kaido’s subordinates?"

"Besides, now that I’ve come to this Devil’s Triangle, even if I don’t go looking for trouble with Moria, he’ll probably come looking for trouble with me."

"Uh… that’s true." Brook did not take Yota’s initial claim that he did not even regard Kaido seriously to heart. In his eyes, it was merely the arrogant nonsense of a fledgling pirate who did not know fear.

Still, every ship that entered the Devil’s Triangle would be seen as prey by Gecko Moria. A clash with Gecko Moria was bound to happen sooner or later.

What was more, Gecko Moria’s Giant Ghost Ship was now right before them!

"Yohohohoho! In that case, I’ll take the lead and guide you all to Gecko Moria’s terrifying castle!"

Brook waved the Cane Sword in his hand, looking excited. But the hot-tempered Ulti was having none of it. With a casual smack, she nearly scattered Brook’s entire skeleton.

"Who needs a skeleton with no meat on his bones as a vanguard? Just be a proper guide!"

"He’s just Gecko Moria. He’s nothing in our eyes!"

Ulti was not the only one looking proud and disdainful; everyone else was brimming with confidence as well. They were people who had truly seen the world. They had either once been members of a Four Emperors Crew or had once served under, or fought against, a Shichibukai. Even if they encountered Gecko Moria one-on-one, they would never fear him.

Besides, they now followed a boss like Yota. He had already crushed two of the Four Emperors. Why would they care about a failure like Moria, who did not even dare enter the latter half of the Grand Line?

The moment Ulti finished speaking, she leaped onto Gecko Moria’s Giant Ghost Ship. The others each used their own methods to follow, and no one even bothered with the Azure Dragon.

"Uh, wait for me! Didn’t we agree that I’d be the guide?" Brook hurriedly sprang up from the ground and followed Yota’s group onto the Ghost Ship.

"Actually, I tried many times in the past to reclaim my shadow, but I never even got to see Moria. There are ambushes everywhere here…"

As Brook spoke, groans began to sound out. The Ghost Ship was already filled with a terrifying, gloomy atmosphere, making the sounds genuinely chilling.

Yota looked up and saw a graveyard. At that moment, a large number of zombies were slowly trying to crawl out.

Yota twitched his lips, recalling what Luffy had done in the original story. An idea came to him, and he stepped forward.

Yota had intended to press the zombies’ heads back down, but the sight of all that rotting flesh ultimately triggered his germaphobia. He planted a foot on one zombie’s head, intending to stomp it back underground.

That zombie’s head did not seem very round. When Yota stepped down, his force landed unevenly. With a crack, the zombie’s spine snapped, and its oval head rolled off its body.

The body froze slightly, then began groping around. Yota blinked and kicked the head over beside the zombie’s hand.

The zombie felt around for its head, placed it back on its neck, and let out a long breath. When it looked up, it saw Yota’s strange expression.

Then the zombie shrank entirely back into the grave, even reaching out to pat the dirt down so the grave looked exactly as it had before.

"So zombies are afraid of wicked people too," Ulti could not help commenting. Seeing Yota’s unfriendly gaze, she quickly covered her mouth.