Thriller Bark

"The World Government? What a disgusting bunch." Enel brandished his Golden Staff, looking around. "But on our ship, a few bold little Nezumi have actually boarded."

"Gulp!" The two people in the shadows swallowed hard, as if they had seen someone extraordinary. Was it too late to escape now?

"They must be Moria's men. They really treat this place like their own home, coming and going as they please," Crocodile the Sand said, quite displeased.

Although the enemy was invisible, the ship was full of powerful individuals Observation Haki, making their concealment impossible to hide.

The howling sandstorm tightly bound an unseen figure, but the Crocodile the Sand frowned. "Is there another non-physical entity? This is a troublesome ability."

The figure trapped in the Sand Prison gradually solidified, and what finally appeared before everyone's eyes was a monster resembling a wild beast. Meanwhile, a large number of ghosts appeared in mid-air, surrounding a gothic lolita, as if they had arrived in the realm of the dead in an instant.

This scene would probably frighten an ordinary person into fainting instantly, but the people on Roy's ship were no ordinary people. All the officers observed this strange scene with great interest.

"Hmm? Is this guy from the 'Mink' tribe? It doesn't seem quite right." Crocodile the Sand said thoughtfully, looking at the bound monster.

"Release Absalom immediately, or else... Lord Moria will not let you off the hook." A weak and somewhat frightened female voice drifted through the mist, carrying a hint of a vengeful spirit.

Perona felt a little apprehensive. They had been drawn to the Golden Ship, thinking it was full of weak and easily bullied lambs, but instead, a ferocious prehistoric dragon emerged from it.

She wouldn't be so afraid of ordinary enemies, but this ship has Shichibukai like Lord Moria, and if you include Crocodile the Sand, it's a powerful force that combines the strength of two Shichibukai.

Let alone her, even her master, Gecko Moria, would feel hesitant to back down if he encountered such a combination.

This is also one of the inconveniences of the Devil's Triangle —the inability to receive timely information. Otherwise, if she knew that the Golden Ship they coveted was actually the vessel of Shichibukai, they would never have walked into the trap.

"Gecko Moria? Heh, I would have gone to find him even without you telling me." Roy watched the ghosts flying all over the sky with great interest.

Perona had recovered from her initial panic, and the fact that even the infamous former Shichibukai Crocodile the Sand couldn't do anything to her gave her a surge of courage.

"What a joke... I was almost scared out of my wits by your title. What's there to be afraid of? With my abilities, no one has ever failed to kneel at my feet..."

"Besides, your shadow must be quite powerful... Nightmare Roy, I'll take you down first and then leave, as a gift for Lord Moria, hehehehe."

Perona "cleverly" chose Roy as her enemy, after all, she knew the power of Logia Fruit users' Elementalization and was unsure whether her Devil Fruit Ability could work against the elements.

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone looked at the ghost floating in the air with admiration. Admittedly, this ability was indeed very strange, but it would be too naive to think that it could be used to deal with their captain.

"Negative Hollows! Plus Special Hollows!" The ghosts floating in mid-air launched an attack on Roy in an instant.

"Huh?" Roy's eyes widened, and a terrifying aura emanated from him.

"Woo-woo!" The diving ghosts braked suddenly, and finally, like little dogs, they whimpered and scattered, scrambling to hide behind Perona.

"..." Everyone was speechless. This is too much to be a case of starting strong but ending weakly. You made such a big show of it, saying you were going to capture the captain, and then you ran away after being scared like this.

"..." Absalom, who had high hopes for Perona, was completely bewildered. What the hell? Could it be that this cunning little girl didn't want to save him at all? He had only complained a few times that Perona wasn't his type.

"Aaaaa! How could this happen? Get out of here and get through his body!" Perona was going crazy. You see, these ghosts were all her spiritual clones. In a sense, these ghosts were herself.

But now, she can't even control her own clones anymore. The ghosts even transmit their fear to her, preferring to return to their original forms rather than face that terrifying man again.

"Is this the same level of Shichibukai as Lord Moria? The difference is so huge!" If she weren't in ghost form, Perona would probably be too scared to move. "Right, since I'm in ghost form now, even if my attacks don't work on him, he can't do anything to me."

After comforting herself, Perona looked at Roy and said coquettishly, "Hmph, although I don't know what ability you used to scare my ghost, I won't give up so easily."

"Excuse me, but I'm equally skilled when it comes to matters of the soul."

Before Perona could react, she was bound by an invisible force and unable to break free. "Ah! What did you do to me? Why can't I move?"

With her greatest advantage completely Extol, Perona could no longer contain her fear and almost burst into tears. (However, she was currently in a spirit state and couldn't cry at all, yohohoho.)

Perona knew that her physical body was her weakness, but she always believed that she was invincible in her soul form. She never imagined that her soul would be captured one day.

"Binding a soul is nothing difficult for me." Roy didn't think there was anything to praise about it. After all, although Perona's Devil Fruit Ability was strange, it didn't change the fact that her physical body was weak in combat.

"Let's go and see what this former hero of the West Blue looks like now."

"Captain, what should we do with this guy? Should we take him with us?" Crocodile the Sand asked Absalom.

"Hmm... kill him!" Absalom's eyes widened in horror. Could it be that he wouldn't even survive two episodes?

"Understood." The Crocodile the Sand had no intention of asking any more questions and controlled the quicksand to roll inward.

Wisps of blood mist dissipated into the air.

Perona covered her mouth in terror, tears welling in her eyes, but she dared not make a sound, her gaze towards Roy like that of a demon.

Although Perona disliked Absalom, they were still colleagues, and seeing his tragic death, she felt a sense of shared sorrow.

Roy nodded slightly. In the Pirate World, besides Momonosuke having to die, this guy also cannot be allowed to live.

Hmph, he actually obtained the ability that all men dream of. It would be merciful of Roy not to break his dick.