Chapter 183: The Mist of the Florian Triangle! The Singing Ghost Ship and the Skeleton Who Joined in a Second
Just a few minutes ago, the Thousand Sunny was still sailing on the open sea under the bright sun.
However, the weather in the Grand Line changes faster than turning a page.
It was as if they had crossed an invisible, eerie boundary.
The originally bright sunlight was completely cut off in an instant.
The surrounding light suddenly dimmed, replaced by a thick black fog that seemed impossible to disperse.
The sea breeze stopped, and a suffocating silence fell over the surroundings.
Only the thousand sunny cutting through the water echoed in the mist.
"It's no good! It's completely messed up!"
On the deck, Nami frowned deeply, her fair fingers tapping hard on the Log Pose on her wrist.
The needle inside the glass ball was spinning wildly like a headless fly, completely losing its function of guiding the way.
Nami looked up at the thick black fog where she couldn't even see her own hand:
"The air pressure readings are completely abnormal, and the surrounding magnetic field is a total mess!
"We've really entered the legendary 'Florian Triangle'!"
At the Navigator's announcement, the deck of the thousand sunny instantly erupted.
"Waaaaaaaah!!!"
Two extremely shrill screams pierced the silence of the thick fog.
Usopp and Chopper had somehow completed an extremely ridiculous "full armament."
Their necks were densely hung with a large string of garlic and Onion found somewhere in the kitchen, along with various crude wooden crosses.
"Evil spirits begone!! Monsters begone!!"
"Hmph... so noisy."
Zoro's scarred upper body was bare, and his forehead was covered in sweat.
He was holding up a massive barbell of terrifying weight with both hands.
He turned a deaf ear to Usopp and Chopper's wailing below and muttered coldly:
"Even if there really are ghosts... just draw your sword and cut them. What's there to be afraid of?"
And at the bow of the ship.
"Wahahaha! Don't panic! Guys!"
Franky pushed up the sunglasses on his face.
He strode to the control console at the lion-head bow and excitedly pulled down a heavy red lever.
"SUPER————!!"
"Watch my brilliance light up the darkness!!"
"Vroom——!!!"
Accompanied by a strong electric hum, the super searchlights in the eyes of the Thousand Sunny's lion head instantly turned on.
Two extremely penetrating beams of bright white light cut through the thick black fog ahead, casting two bright pillars of light onto the sea surface.
However, just as everyone's tense nerves had slightly relaxed.
"Yohohoho Yohohoho"
An extremely melodious and ethereal baritone drifted from the deepest part of the thick fog without warning.
"Bringing Binks' Sake... to your side..."
"Riding the wind and waves as I roam... the waves accompany the setting sun..."
The singing echoed across the dead silent sea, as if coming from the depths of hell.
As the singing drew closer.
Franky's two dazzling searchlight beams suddenly illuminated a massive silhouette in the fog ahead.
It was a super ancient sailing ship, several times larger than the Thousand Sunny.
However, this ship had long lost its former glory.
Its massive mainmast had been tragically snapped in the middle.
The remaining sails were tattered, fluttering in the cold wind like pieces of rotten cloth.
This giant ancient ship was like a behemoth that had been dead for hundreds of years, without even a hint of engine or sail power.
Just like that, it glided out of the fog like a ghost along the eerie current, its massive shadow instantly enveloping the thousand sunny.
"Clatter."
The cigarette Sanji was holding in his mouth slipped from the corner of his lips and fell onto the grass.
"Hey, hey... you're kidding, right? Is this really a Ghost Ship?!
"And... there's actually someone singing on it?!"
"Eek!! Turn the helm, quick!!"
Nami was pale with fright.
She turned around without hesitation and threw herself into Tatsuya's arms beside her:
"Tatsuya! Tell Franky to turn the helm!
"Get out of this place quickly!! I don't want to go near a Ghost Ship!!"
"A ghost?! A singing ghost?!"
Luffy stood on the lion head, his eyes instantly turning into two stars so bright they could blind someone.
Instead of being afraid, he was so excited that he jumped around on the deck like a spring:
"Awesome!!! There really is a Ghost Ship!!"
"I want to go up! I want to go up and see what that singing ghost looks like!!"
"No way!! Absolutely not!!" Usopp, Chopper, and Nami shouted in protest simultaneously.
But with Luffy's personality, once he decided on an adventure, not even nine oxen could pull him back.
"I don't care! I'm going on that ship to see it no matter what!" Luffy began to act like a spoiled child.
Finally, for safety's sake and to prevent this idiot Captain from going up alone and being caught by evil spirits, everyone had to compromise.
Sanji brought several wooden sticks of different lengths and suggested letting fate decide.
To see who would be unlucky enough to accompany Luffy to explore that gloomy Ghost Ship.
A minute later.
Nami looked at the wooden stick in her hand, which was clearly much shorter than the others, and felt as if her soul had been drained.
With a "thump," she knelt on the deck in despair.
"Why... why me..." Nami wanted to cry but had no tears.
Looking at the Miss Navigator whose eyes were brimming with tears.
Tatsuya immediately stepped forward and naturally reached out to pull Nami up from the deck.
"I'll go along and take a look too."
"Someone needs to keep an eye on our reckless Captain, lest he gets excited and does something stupid on that Ghost Ship that can't be fixed."
Actually, besides wanting to protect Nami personally.
Tatsuya volunteering had another extremely important private reason.
The intellectual and mischievous female archaeologist was currently crossing her arms, her deep and charming eyes watching him with a half-smile.
That look seemed to hide a thousand words.
To briefly escape Robin's "mischievous gaze" that seemed able to see through his guilty conscience.
This gloomy and terrifying Ghost Ship was, in Tatsuya's eyes, a perfect safe harbor.
Hearing that Tatsuya was willing to accompany them, Nami felt as if she had been granted a grand pardon.
She tightly grabbed Tatsuya's sturdy arm, her fingers clutching his sleeve.
"Ah, I love you, Tatsuya."
Luffy laughed and stretched his Gum-Gum arm, grabbing the Ghost Ship's dilapidated railing.
Then his arm retracted, carrying Tatsuya and Nami—who was clinging to Tatsuya like a koala—as the three of them jumped onto the towering, gloomy ancient ship.
"Thud."
The three of them landed on the rotten deck, which was covered in slippery moss and layers of spiderwebs.
The surroundings were deathly quiet, with only the thick fog weaving through the dilapidated masts, making whimpering sounds like ghosts weeping.
"Creeeeeaaaak——"
Suddenly, an extremely piercing and grating sound of a wooden door rubbing echoed in the fog.
Not far ahead, a rotten wooden door that was about to fall off actually opened slowly.
"Eek!!" Nami buried her face in Tatsuya's back.
As the wooden door opened, an extremely tall figure slowly walked out from the darkness and mist behind the door.
It was a bizarre figure nearly three meters tall, with a body so slender it was extremely disproportionate.
On his head was an extremely exaggerated, massive afro that looked like a black thundercloud.
He wore a set of long-worn, dusty, and hole-filled black tailcoats, and held a purple cane in his hand.
As the person walked out of the cabin.
A cold wind blew, slightly dispersing the thick fog in front of him.
At this moment, everyone finally saw the true face of this figure.
That wasn't a human at all!
It was a skeleton with nothing left but white bones!!
"Ah!! A ske-skeleton!!"
However, this terrifying skeleton did not make any aggressive moves.
His fingers, which were only white bone, steadily held a cup of tea that was still steaming.
He performed an extremely standard noble's hat-tip to the three people in front of him:
"Nice to meet you, Dear friends."
The skeleton's voice was gentle and polite:
"Today is a fine day, isn't it?
"Ah... although in this sea area, we can't even see a shadow of the sun."
He straightened up and looked at Luffy and the others with his two hollow eye sockets:
"Suddenly appearing here must have frightened you, right? I am truly sorry."
"After all... I'm just a pile of old bones who died who knows how many years ago.
"Yohohohoho~"
This extremely contrasting scene made Luffy's jaw drop straight onto the deck, while Nami's mind went blank.
Brook, the skeleton who was standing a few meters away just now, suddenly performed a quick sliding step.
With a "swish," his tall skeleton frame instantly teleported in front of Nami.
Brook bowed with great gentlemanly grace.
He looked intently at the stunned Nami with his hollow eye sockets and asked with extreme sincerity and politeness:
"This beautiful lady..."
"May I have the honor of seeing your panties?"
The air fell into a dead silence at this moment.
Nami's beautiful large eyes instantly widened.
The moment Tatsuya heard these words, his face became as dark as the bottom of a pot.
His long and powerful right leg suddenly lifted.
He delivered a heavy high-whip kick, slamming it hard into the skeleton's long jawbone.
"Bang!!!"
The poor skeleton didn't even have time to react.
His skull, topped with the massive afro, was kicked right off his cervical spine by Tatsuya's loving-husband flying kick.
The skeleton head flew high into the air, spinning three times like a helicopter propeller, then landed on the distant deck with a "thud" and rolled all the way to the corner.
"Whoa!!!"
Seeing this, Luffy's eyes didn't show fear but instead emitted an even more dazzling light. He pointed at the headless skeleton and shouted excitedly:
"Not just a skeleton! But a skeleton that talks and can move even when its head is off!! That's so cool!!!"
"Oh dear, how rude of me, my head..."
The headless skeleton felt around on the ground for a bit, then picked up its own skull with great familiarity.
With a "click," Brook reattached his skull to his cervical spine like a building block.
He twisted his neck twice, and he was actually unharmed!
He brushed the dust off his tailcoat and bowed repeatedly in apology:
"I am so sorry! I am so sorry!
"This was just an old-fashioned skeleton joke that's been around for fifty years! No ill intent!
"Yohohohoho~"
Looking at this extremely bizarre and dorky skeleton.
Luffy's heart, which wanted to collect all sorts of weird creatures as companions, completely boiled over at this moment.
He put his hands on his hips, strode in front of Brook, and shouted at him:
"Hey! Skeleton!!"
"Be my companion!!!"
Hearing this sudden invitation.
Brook's hollow eye sockets seemed to freeze for a moment.
He looked into Luffy's sincere eyes and nodded quite readily:
"Okay."
On the Ghost Ship.
The sea breeze blew, picking up a few strands of afro hair that had fallen from Brook's head.
A full three seconds passed.
Nami, who was in a state of extreme shock, finally erupted completely.
Nami transformed into a demon form with black lines on her face and fangs, roaring frantically at Luffy and the skeleton who was still leisurely drinking tea:
"You agreed way too fast, damn it!!!!!!!!!!"
"Hey Luffy!! What kind of thing are you inviting onto the ship!!!"
"And you, you bone bastard! You agreed without even asking a single question! What the hell are you anyway!!!!!"
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