Brook opened his violin case and took out his beloved violin. He did not play it, but instead... gently set it on the ground. Then he stepped back twice, pressed his palms together before his chest, and bowed his head as though praying.
Limejuice frowned, not understanding what the skeleton was doing. But years of combat instinct kept him from hesitating. His chains accelerated, shooting toward Brook's chest like black lightning!
Just as the chains were about to strike Brook-
"Hum..."
A strange "sound," one that did not travel through the air but acted directly on the soul, rang out across the Island of Silence.
No, it was not a sound.
It was a "vibration."
Brook's body began to emit a faint, spectral blue light. It brightened and dimmed like breathing, each pulse accompanied by a peculiar vibration on the level of the soul. This vibration ignored the Island of Silence's sound-absorbing rules and passed straight into the depths of Limejuice's consciousness.
The chains stopped three inches from Brook's chest.
They had not been blocked. Rather, Limejuice's movements had frozen.
He felt music resounding deep within his consciousness.
He did not hear it through his ears. It appeared directly in his mind-a distant, ethereal violin melody, tinged with faint sorrow yet incomparably warm...
"This... this is..." For the first time, Limejuice looked shocked. He tried to move his arms, only to find his body somewhat unresponsive, as though every cell were trembling faintly to the rhythm of that soul-born music.
"Revive-Revive Fruit ability: an advanced application of astral projection-"
Brook raised his head, the soul flames in his eyes blazing as spectral blue light enveloped his entire skeletal body.
"Soul Resonance: Requiem Prelude."
He raised his right hand toward Limejuice and pressed down on empty air.
"Thump!"
Limejuice felt his