After Garen and Onigumo reached an agreement, Onigumo's Marine subordinates hurried off to prepare the paperwork for signing the Shichibukai agreement.
The appointment of a new Shichibukai was no trivial matter. Even if the process was simplified, the formalities still had to be observed.
No matter how brief the process was, Garen at least had to leave the World Government with a photo suitable for official newspaper publicity.
During this brief period of rest, however, neither Garen nor Onigumo remained idle.
After Garen presented Moria, who was about to become his colleague, with his treasured Seastone Handcuffs as a gift, he and Onigumo jointly conducted an in-depth "friendly visit" to Gecko Moria's flagship.
Of course, in Moria's eyes, having nearly become a prisoner himself, this was simply a raid on his home.
And Moria, who worked in the zombie-making business, was naturally no clean entrepreneur. This raid uncovered scene after scene of horrifying hellish sights.
The moment they entered the ship's hold, Garen and Onigumo caught a wave of rotting stench mixed with the foul odors of blood, sweat, and excrement.
Onigumo remained expressionless.
To avoid showing weakness before Onigumo, Garen forcibly kept an expressionless face as well.
In truth, he desperately wanted to buy a gas mask, preferably with two built-in nose plugs.
Following a string of feeble wails, the two opened a tightly sealed cabin door, and the stench instantly grew countless times stronger.
Inside was a group of living people packed together like sardines in a can.
Moria was eager to rebuild his zombie army, so he naturally had no time to slowly dig up graves and steal corpses as he had before.
Without corpses, the red-eyed Moria could naturally create corpses himself without feeling the slightest guilt.
These people were all Gecko Moria's prisoners, "materials" he