Sea Circle Calendar, year 1620.
The Terrifying Sea.
Hachinosu.
Before rows of graves.
Brook had just climbed out of his coffin.
"Good heavens, that was such a wonderful sleep."
"I really want to set off on a new adventure with everyone."
He rubbed his skeletal head.
He recalled that the last time he fell asleep was when Shane moved into the City of Heaven and defeated Imu.
He had spent most of his time afterward on Hachinosu, and during that time, his Devil Fruit Awakening had laid him flat in his coffin.
He had slept for over a hundred years.
"Mom! There's one of the Skeleton Star People over there!"
The child clung to his mother in fear.
But his pirate mother patted his head.
"It's all right. The Skeleton Star People aren't bad. They're just ugly, and they're all very musically gifted."
"But they're nothing but bones!"
The child still dared not approach.
"I'm terribly sorry. I didn't mean to frighten you. I just missed my old companions, and after finally waking up, I couldn't wait to come out."
"But, beautiful madam, may I see your panties?"
Smack!
A slap sent Brook's head spinning more than a dozen times.
"Just like the old days."
Brook turned around.
What he saw, however, was a cemetery!
Every name on the graves was incredibly familiar.
Kaido, Dragon, Aokiji, King, Kuma, Ginny, Moria, Morley, Sanjuan Wolf, Urouge...
"They're all dead!"
"Captain!"
Brook threw his arms around Shane's gravestone and burst into tears.
But before his sobbing stopped.
Spaceships came to a halt behind him.
"It really is the Soul King!"
"So the God of Skeleton Star really was inside the Dark Vortex!"
"We've finally found you after so many hardships!"
Brook was crying, and the skeleton people behind him were crying too.
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