"You can't be lewd!"
Sig unleashed a deafening roar as he smashed "air," and then Absalom appeared in the corner, his face bruised and swollen.
"It's precisely because you're always harboring lustful thoughts that you're so easily discovered!" Sig said, quite reasonably.
Of course, the reason Absalom was being "lewd" towards Sig was entirely because he was under the influence of "Fallen Shadow".
The Fallen Shadow is a new skill developed by Sig using 40% of his Shadow-Shadow Fruit power and 15% of his Spirit-Spirit Devil Fruit ability, called the "The Hanged Man Path." Its effect is that when one's shadow overlaps with the other's, a portion of the shadow is "left behind" and merges into the other's shadow, continuously applying the "fallen" effect to disrupt the other's mind.
Besides the power of the "The Hanged Man Path," the Hypnotist's abilities of the "Visionary Path" also played a role, indirectly simulating some of the abilities of the "Sequence 4 Black Knight."
However, the effect is definitely not comparable to the actual capabilities of "Sequence 4"; it can only be described as a simulation and a way to familiarize oneself with the system beforehand.
Using this against Absalom would be like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut—it was just that Sig, with the idea of "curing the disease and saving the patient," was helping Absalom to make up for his character flaws, which was also part of "providing as much help as possible"!
After repeated Psychological Suggestion, Absalom now only has time to have any "lustful" thoughts when he is disturbed by the "Fallen Shadow." Normal methods can no longer stimulate his lustful thoughts, so he is basically useless... no, he is basically trained.
After training Absalod, a Zombie Dog came over and informed Sig that Captain Moria had something to discuss.
When Sig arrived at the control room, he learned that a pirate fleet was approaching Thriller Bark...
Moria naturally didn't want to be "monitored" at all times, so he stopped Sig from using the magnetic field to probe the entire ship. Moreover, when Sig used Observation Haki with the magnetic field, he couldn't hide it from Moria, so he had to restrain himself.
Therefore, Moria, who was still monitoring the surveillance, was the first to notice the approaching fleet.
"That's Captain John's flag, isn't it? Looks like it's one of his pirate crews... their own pirate flag, do you recognize it?" Moria wasn't very familiar with these things anymore.
The pirate crew before him was flying two flags. The one on the mainmast was Captain John's flag—behind a skull were two crossed swords, one a straight sword and the other a Bari Saber with a handguard. Moria recognized it as the flag of Captain John's pirate crew.
Captain John was simply called Captain John; "Captain" was his nickname, not his official title.
As for the skull and crossbones flag hanging on the secondary mast, featuring a canine skull, Moria didn't recognize it.
All I know is that this must be Captain John's affiliated pirate crew...
"It's the Remnant Wolf Pirates. The Captain's bounty... was over 300 million six months ago, it shouldn't have changed much." Sig recited the information he had seen, relying on his memory.
The Remnant Wolf Pirates have been under Captain John for a long time, though not as long as Moria was imprisoned. Captain Kaoli, with a bounty of over 300 million, is considered a notable figure in the New World.
At this moment, the Remnant Wolf Pirates dared not be careless and cautiously approached the Thriller Bark.
Whether it's the sheer size of this "ship" or the pirate flag with "Flame Bat" on its enormous sails, nothing should be taken lightly!
As the Thriller Bark, an island-class vessel, continued to approach Mayo Island, Captain John naturally noticed it; Kaoli was essentially making a probing contact.
"Open the ship's doors." Moria gave the order over the Den Den Mushi, and immediately a large number of zombies appeared underground, pushing a massive winch with hundreds of handles.
Amidst the creaking of machinery, the gaping maw of Thriller Bark opened, and the Remnant Wolf Pirates charged straight in.
"Should we try diplomacy first, then resort to force?" Sig asked.
"No need, the script is already written... Let's take them out first, consider it a flag-raising ceremony before the battle with Captain John!" Moria said, standing up.
Sig could sense that Moria was also feeling a stirring of desire within him.
Moria recently sparred with Sig, and he also gained some inspiration from Sig's manipulation of shadows.
If it weren't for the "mutual benefit" principle, Moria would have given up long ago...
As a user of the Shadow-Shadow Fruit, it would be easier for him to borrow Sig's techniques in the field of shadows than for Sig to borrow them.
After all, the effect of Devil Fruit is essentially to irrationally alter a person's genetic material, making them seem as if they were born with this ability. For Sig to "imitate" it would be equivalent to making a controlled mutation of the genetic material.
"Captain 'm going to teach... these newbies a lesson!" Moria rubbed his shoulders, shook his neck, and went out to greet them.
Sig, dressed in Vampire attire, merely smiled slightly, seemingly oblivious to Moria's provocation.
She looked very intellectual, picked up a medical book from the bookshelf next to her, sat down, and began to read it quietly.
Hogback, who was also in the monitoring room, saw this scene and immediately moved closer, revealing a "like-minded smile"...
A month ago, when Sig asked him for his medical books and notes, Hogback didn't take it seriously—you silly Fish-Man, you want to learn medicine? Especially my surgical genius's notes...
At first, when Sig was browsing through the medical books at an extremely fast pace, Hogback didn't take it seriously, thinking he was just pretending. Medical books aren't something you can understand just by "reading through" them; even with a superb memory, rote memorization is useless!
However, after only a few days, he discovered that Sig had started comparing his notes, and... the order in which he compared them was indeed correct.
Just a few days ago, Sig began to question him about some issues in the medical books—the authors' medical skills were no better than Hogback's, especially in surgery!
Hogback was increasingly amazed by Sig's incisive analysis and became more and more suspicious... that this Fish-Man had truly understood and was rapidly becoming a skilled surgeon.
Hogback then gave Sig some real "notes" and discovered that Sig's interests largely overlapped with his own: human anatomy!
Sig noticed this too...
Now Sig not only thinks that if Hogback eats the Op-Op Fruit, he can immediately perform the "Eternal Youth Surgery," but he also thinks that Buck would be very suitable to play the role of the Rose Bishop!
Indeed, Sig's interest in human anatomy stems from the discovery that research into flesh and blood could advance his portrayal of the Rose Bishop. It seems the "rose" in the Rose Bishop's name is a metaphor for "flesh and blood"...
Sig also discovered that some obviously "medical unethical" studies of flesh and blood increasingly facilitated the role of the Rose Bishop — the Hanged Man Path was already rather sinister.
Sig was somewhat uncomfortable with this, and was only studying Hogback's notes out of a sense of obligation to his role, while Hogback was different... he genuinely enjoyed it!