Night had fallen, and the sky was dim.
On the outskirts of Rosanna Town in the Ilusia Kingdom, at a mass grave.
Karasu cawed now and then from the trees in the dense forest.
More than twenty figures emerged unhurriedly from the woods and stopped before the scattered burial mounds.
"Heyhihihi...! Boys, dig up all these graves for me."
The speaker had short purple hair and stood nearly seven meters tall. A pair of enormous scissors hung at his waist, while the slight bulge of his belly stood out rather conspicuously against his otherwise sturdy frame...
Following his order, the more than twenty zombies behind him picked up their shovels and spades, beginning to dig through the graves in the mass burial ground...
"Lord Moria... why are we digging up these ordinary corpses? In terms of combat power, they should be of no help to you at all, right?"
A mummy dressed in a kimono, with a long blade at his waist, stood beside the purple-haired man and looked at him in confusion.
Hearing this, Moria folded his arms and explained with a grin:
"Heyhihihi...! I'm planning to turn a small island into a three-masted sailing ship, so I need a great deal of manpower right now. Combat power is secondary. As long as they can work, that's enough!"
The mummy standing beside Moria was the corpse of Sword God Ryuma, which he had stolen from Wano Country. Moria had now used the power of the Shadow-Shadow Fruit to place inside it the shadow of a swordsman with a bounty of thirty million Belly...
The West Blue was not like the Grand Line, where powerful fighters appeared one after another. Moria was already lucky to find a pirate worth thirty million Belly and steal his shadow!
The corpse of another