What Does the Appearance of This Shadow Mean?

At that moment, Gecko Moria's face suddenly darkened, as though a black cloud had settled over it. His gaze fixed tightly on a shadow drifting back toward him, and an ominous feeling rose in his heart. What did the appearance of this shadow mean? The answer was quickly revealed—one of the zombies he had painstakingly created had been killed!

Hogback and Perona, standing nearby, also noticed the change in Gecko Moria's expression, and their eyes narrowed slightly. After exchanging a glance, they reached the same conclusion almost simultaneously: "Intruders!"

Gecko Moria turned to Perona and said in a low voice, "Go take a look." There was a trace of gravity in his voice. Clearly, he took this situation very seriously.

The corners of Perona's lips lifted into a sly smile. "Horohorohorohoro..." She let out her signature laugh, then activated her ability without hesitation.

A faint purple glow spread around Perona's body, and transparent ghosts drifted out one after another, like messengers answering her summons. Under her control, they swiftly flew toward the harbor, like a ghostly army carrying out an important mission.

However, just as those ghosts were about to reach the harbor, they ran into two figures who had just stepped onto the island—Moke and Ata.

"Ghosts?!!!!"

Ata's eyes nearly popped out of her head. It had to be said that plenty of people in the pirate world were afraid of these things.

Brook's out-of-body soul had scared quite a few people.

So Ata's reaction was perfectly normal.

Moke immediately reminded her, "Gecko Moria has three subordinates, also known as the Three Freaks. The first freak was Absalom, whom you just killed. The other two are Hogback and Perona. And these ghosts in front of us were created by Perona, one of the Three Freaks. She's a Paramecia-type Hollow-Hollow