Forgotten by the World

"Yohohohoho! Have I stayed here too long? Are my eyes playing tricks on me again? How could a gigantic ship appear here... Though I have no eyes, yohohohoho!"

"Hiyori, this guy really doesn't have a speck of flesh on him. He's completely and utterly a skeleton!"

"Really. And he has that strange afro too. What a bizarre creature. Is this one of those legendary rare beasts?"

The young, crisp voices echoed through the empty ghost ship. Brook looked around, then lowered his head.

Two young girls stood before him, commenting on his current body from top to bottom.

One carried an iron club on her back. Her foreign-style shrine maiden outfit, paired with the crimson horns atop her head, made her seem to possess the bloodline of another race.

The other wore robes of a similar style. Her glazed-colored hair was casually tied in a princess style, and her sparkling glazed eyes and exquisite features seemed destined to make her a beauty who would astonish the world.

"Um, may I ask why the two of you are on this ship? And why didn't you make any sound at all?"

After thinking for a moment, Brook cautiously asked, only to receive confused looks from Yamato and Hiyori.

"Why wouldn't we make any sound? Isn't that basic training? Mr. Skeleton, you're strange too! You obviously don't have any blood, yet you can still live in this world..."

"And, and, you should be a Devil Fruit user, right? Why don't you have any Haki?"

"Idiot Yamato, Haki is something found in the New World. Most people in the outer seas don't even know what Haki is, so the outer seas are far weaker than the New World."

"The Marines in the four outer seas are generally two minor ranks weaker than those at