At the same time.
After taking Sanji aboard the warship, Garp no longer delayed at East Blue and directly ordered the warship to set off for Calm Belt.
As the warship passed through Calm Belt, it officially sailed into Grand Line.
Different from the calmness of East Blue, the weather of Grand Line is unpredictable. One second it will be clear skies, and the next second there may be lightning and thunder.
Several brats on the ship were acting up and messing around almost all the time. Only Zoro, a master of self-discipline, did not participate in it. Even adding all the barbells in the training room on the ship was not enough. Apart from eating and sleeping, he spent most of his time training.
"Meat! Meat! My meat!"
Luffy's wails echoed across the deck again, and he watched helplessly as the last piece of barbecue on his plate was forked away by Sanji and placed on Nami's plate.
"Miss Nami, please enjoy." Sanji said diligently, quite gentlemanly.
Luffy's face fell instantly, and saliva flowed from the corner of his mouth into a small waterfall.
He suddenly turned his eyes to Usopp.
Usopp was shocked and immediately protected his plate, looking at Luffy in horror, "You, what do you want to do? This is my last ration!"
"Hehe, I'll just take a bite."
Luffy's neck suddenly stretched out, and his head shot towards Usopp's dinner plate like a cannonball.
"Bang!"
One foot accurately kicked Luffy in the face, causing his face to become deformed, and his long neck retracted with a "whoosh".
Sanji retracted his legs, adjusted his suit, and glared at Luffy, "Don't be rude to food and women, you idiot rubber man!"
Luffy covered his face and looked aggrievedly at Garp who was watching the show, "Grandpa!"
Garp yawned and stuffed a huge piece of senbei into his mouth, pretending not to hear.
At this moment, the sky darkened without warning.
It wasn't dark clouds covering the sun, but a weird, blinding darkness.
Thick fog came from all directions, completely swallowing up the huge warship, and the visibility instantly dropped to less than three meters.
The air also became cold and humid.
"What's going on?" Nojiko grabbed Nami's arm nervously, and the noise on the ship suddenly stopped.
Nami was also frightened by the sudden black fog and turned pale, hugging Nojiko tightly.
Usopp was even more exaggerated. Tears and runny nose burst out in an instant. He rolled and crawled to hide behind Ace, his body trembling uncontrollably.
Zoro stopped swinging his sword, Ace felt as if he was facing a formidable enemy, and Sanji also stood up straight. The three of them formed a cross-shaped posture and scanned the thick fog vigilantly.
Luffy was different, he scratched the side of the boat curiously and looked hard into the fog.
Suddenly, a melodious and somewhat eerie song came from the depths of the thick fog.
"Yo ho ho ho, yo ho ho ho..."
"Send Binks' Sake to you..."
The singing, accompanied by the melody of the violin, echoed in the dead sea of fog, making the already weird atmosphere even more gloomy.
A dilapidated sailboat that was so huge that it was beyond imagination emerged silently from the fog like a ghost. The hull was covered with broken sails and seaweed.
"Ah--"
"Ghost ship!" Nami and Usopp screamed like a duet.
"Ah hahaha, it seems I have found the right place!"
Garp's heroic laughter broke his fear. He bent his legs slightly and then kicked hard. His whole body shot into the sky like a cannonball, crossed a distance of tens of meters, and landed heavily on the deck of the ghost ship.
On the ghost ship, the singing stopped suddenly.
A skeleton with an explosive head was holding a violin and looked blankly at the uninvited guest falling from the sky.
It is Brook.
Because Moonlight·Moria has long since surrendered to the navy and become a subordinate of Akira, his stolen shadow has long since returned.
"Hello?" Brook tilted his skull head, his empty eyes facing Garp.
Garp took out the crumpled list from his arms, checked it in the moonlight, and then looked at the afro-headed skull in front of him.
"Yes, it's you."
As soon as he finished speaking, Garp's figure disappeared instantly.
Brook felt as if his eyes were blurred, and an irresistible terrifying pressure hit his face.
The next second, a Iron Fist wrapped around a pitch-black Haki expanded infinitely in his pupils.
"Bang!"
There was only a muffled sound, and Brook was hit hard on the head. The soul fire in his eyes flickered twice before being completely extinguished.
Immediately afterwards, the skeleton fell down softly.
"Eh?!"
"Is this done?"
Unexpectedly, Brook couldn't even bear his own punch. Garp blinked in surprise.
However, he didn't think much about it. After all, his mission was just to "catch" people according to the list. He casually put Brook on his shoulders, jumped again, and returned to the warship deck.
"Boom."
Brook was thrown on the deck like a sack.
"Ah!!!"
When Nami and Usopp saw a moving skeleton being brought back, they were so frightened that they rolled their eyes on the spot, fell straight down, and foamed at the mouth.
"Bone?"
Different from the reactions of Nami and Usopp, Luffy came over out of curiosity and poked Brook's ribs with his finger.
"Grandpa, can you eat this?" He asked innocently, "Bone soup seems to be very nourishing."
The mouth corners of Zoro, Ace and Sanji all twitched.
Foodies are foodies, even the skeletons!
At this moment, Brook, who was thrown to the ground, moved his fingers, and the blue soul fire rekindled in his eyes.
"Yo ho ho ho!"
"Did I fall asleep? I had a nightmare about being headshot by Iron Fist..."
Brook sat up unsteadily and rubbed his cracked skull.
"Skeleton... skeleton spoke?" Usopp, who had just woken up, was frightened to death again.
Brook ignored Usopp's reaction and looked around silently. When his eyes fell on Nami and Nojiko, two hearts seemed to light up in his empty eyes.
He jumped up from the ground in an instant, came to the sisters in an elegant gentleman's manner, and bowed slightly.
"Two beautiful ladies, although a little abrupt, but--"
"Can I take a look at your underwear?"
Huh?
Everyone in the audience was petrified by Brook's sudden words.
The air also solidified instantly.
After a brief two seconds.
"Go to hell you perverted skeleton!!!"
Nami's fear was completely replaced by anger, and her seemingly slender fist struck Brook's facial bones with terrifying energy.
"Bang!"
Brook responded and flew out like a kite with its string broken, hit the bulkhead of the ship, and bounced back again.
Nami was still not relieved, so he rushed over, grabbed one of Brook's legs, used a beautiful over-the-shoulder throw, and smashed him onto the deck.
Immediately afterwards, she jumped up and stamped wildly on Brook's body.
"I will step on you! I will step on you! I will step on you to death, you pervert!"
Usopp on the side looked at this scene and trembled. He felt that compared to this skeleton, the rampaging Nami was the real devil.
"Ah hahaha, okay, okay, Nami."
Garp smiled and pulled away the still angry Nami, "Maybe he will be your companion in the future."
With that said, Garp turned to Brook who was trampled to pieces and was assembling his own bones, "Your name is Brook, right? Marine Headquarters Vice Admiral Monkey·D·Garp, under the order of Navy Marshal Akira, you are recruited to go to Marine Headquarters."
Brook stopped assembling his own skeleton and held up the top hat on his head.
"Akira Marshal?"
"Is this the iron-blooded Marshal who rose to power through a mutiny? I have read about his deeds in the newspaper."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly let out his trademark laugh, "Yo ho ho ho... It sounds very interesting! Anyway, I have been alone for so many years, so I just want to go with you!"
"Ah hahaha, it's no longer a question of whether you want it or not!"
"However, you have saved me a lot of trouble by being so straightforward!"
After a slight pause, Garp turned his head and looked at Bogard not far away, and said boldly:
"Password--"
"Full speed ahead! Target, Drum Kingdom!"
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Please use love to generate electricity.
There's more to come.