"What way?"
Shanks's words made him the focus of every gaze in the Straw Hat crew, and Nami, Chopper, and the others were practically ready to pounce on him.
Even Robin and Zoro, who had always seemed calm, had faint tremors in their voices.
The bonds between the members of the Straw Hat crew were certainly deep, but Luffy was their center and their link. If they lost their captain...
This crew would probably fall apart.
Under countless burning stares, Shanks said without changing expression, "Look, normally speaking, Luffy should already be dead. His soul has gone to the underworld, and his body has died, so that should have been the end of it. But Brook's Yomi Yomi no Mi gave him a sliver of a chance."
"Yohohohohohoho!"
Brook had no idea what to say, so he could only perform a bout of skeleton laughter.
"However, as the user of the Yomi Yomi no Mi, Brook can let his soul attach itself to a body that has long since died and be reborn, but Luffy doesn't have that ability. When a body dies, it's dead. A dead body can't serve as a vessel for the soul again."
Shanks continued.
"Then what do we do?"
"There are two ways. One is to find Luffy a new body. The second is to make his already-dead body come back to life."
"Find him a new body?"
Everyone thought about it, then shook their heads in unison, feeling unable to accept Luffy turning into some other form.
"But when it comes to bringing a corpse back to life..."
Nami's eyes lit up. "I remember Moria can use shadows to revive zombies!"
"That probably doesn't count as resurrection, does it? And zombies are controlled by Moria."
Robin denied it. "They say the Ope Ope no