Adrian passed through the coffin ship without a single obstacle.
He soon found his target in the captain's cabin.
The man was a hulking giant in a work jacket and tall black boots. His beard and hair merged into a wild mane, and he radiated bloodthirsty brutality.
Even inside his cabin, the giant remained on guard. A massive scythe rested on his shoulder, and an Iron Clown Mask covered the upper half of his face, with two five-pointed stars painted over the eyes.
A closer look revealed a ring of iron nails around the mask's edges.
The Iron Clown Mask had been nailed straight into the giant's face!
"Cluck, cluck..."
Drago Pyclo's verbal tic was strange. He sounded just like a hen.
"Have we reached Totto Land?"
Adrian offered a friendly correction.
"No. You've reached the land of the dead!"
"Where did you—"
Drago Pyclo was about to sneer when his mind suddenly went hazy.
By the time his senses returned, he was a disembodied soul. He could not even speak.
Adrian quickly sifted through the Funeral Parlor Tycoon's soul, clicking his tongue now and then.
"You look like a musclebound brute, but you're actually a Special Paramecia Blood-Blood Fruit user... Squeezing every last drop out of people. That nickname really suits you... Found it!"
Once Adrian had uncovered Drago Pyclo's exact relationship with Charlotte Linlin and the Big Mom Pirates, he promptly extinguished that wicked soul. He could not be bothered to look any further and dirty his eyes.
With the soul utterly destroyed, the body lost all signs of life.
Adrian did not rush to dispose of the Underworld king's body.
After studying it for a while, he quietly activated Disguise!
He had never used the ability since acquiring it by mastering the Six Powers!
Under Adrian's precise