One Piece: The Eternal Flame

"Yo Ho Ho Ho ~" the wandering soul sang, he floated in mid-air, passed through layers of fog, and followed the melodious sound of the piano to find the familiar huge three-masted sailing ship.

All the past came to mind, he looked at the man on the boat with his back to him, and kept guessing which of his companions he was.

"Yo Ho Ho Ho Ho ~" There was no answer, so he finally chose to face this man directly.

The green ghost floated in front of the man, and greeted excitedly, "Yo Ho Ho Ho~ Long time no see. Uh, who are you?"

The excited tone turned a corner, and the ghost's humanized facial features showed a confused expression. This person was very strange, at least the ghost didn't know him.

Startled by his voice, Bud also stopped playing. He opened his eyes and caught the ghost in front of him for a moment. He opened his eyes wide and stammered and shouted: "Boat, Captain——"

"Captain!!! There's a ghost——" When meeting for the first time, Bud was frightened half to death by the ghost.

"Ghost?! Where is the ghost???" The ghost was incompetent, obviously he was the scary ghost, but he didn't consciously start running with Bud, "Don't leave me, I'm afraid of ghosts too!"

"Go away!" Bud was about to cry, and rushed to the warship at the fastest speed in his life.

On the warship, Gray and the others looked over blankly.

Gray asked, "Bud, what's the matter?"

Bud hugged his captain in a bear hug, then pointed behind him, and cried miserably: "There is a ghost, Captain!"

"There's nothing wrong with this world, Bud, don't scare yourself." Alder was half sober, gloated and said to Bud, and was poked in the back by his younger brother.

Abel's tone was solemn, "Brother, it seems that there are really ghosts."

"Abel, why even you. Wow ~ a green ghost." Alder's meaning changed in the middle of speaking, because he saw a green ghost floating in the air, and he was relieved with a happy face, "Huh~ You ran so fast, didn't the ghost keep up with us? There are so many people here, there shouldn't be any ghosts following you~"

"Aren't you a ghost?" Gray didn't understand the meaning of this nonsense, so is there another ghost chasing them?

"Ah? I'm a ghost?" After hearing Gray's words, the ghost looked at the others inquiringly, only to see that everyone nodded seriously.

"Ah, yes, I am. I am a ghost!" The ghost laughed again, with a characteristic laugh, "I'm sorry, I'm Brooke, nice to meet you."

Brooke?Ace suddenly remembered what he had forgotten before.

It seems that among his younger brother's partners, there is a skeleton named Brook.

But he was already in prison at that time, and the information about his younger brother was something that the whale shark man told him when he entrusted Luffy to Jin.

"Song Brook, you didn't die, no, you became a soul after you died, right?"

After thinking of the Rumba Pirates, the name Brook can easily make people think of a member of the Rumba Pirates.

Perry's words made everyone take a step back at the same time. They are now right next to the Rumba pirate ship, and even the nose song Brook has turned into a ghost, so the other people on that ship should and are probably spying on them somewhere.

Maybe it wasn't an attack at all, but the ship was cursed, like David Jones, whose soul was forever imprisoned in the delta.

Gray also lived as a ghost for a while, so he wasn't too surprised or flustered by this existence. It just seemed that this person named Brook didn't have much consciousness of being a ghost.

"I'm Gray, the captain of the Black Firework Pirates." Gray stepped forward, "By the way, why are you being seen by us?"

The same soul, Gray is a transparent person, but Brook can be seen by everyone, which is a bit too unfair.

"Yo Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho, I don't know about this." Brook also met a living person for the first time after his death, and he didn't understand why he was seen. "I was lucky enough to eat a devil fruit once, maybe it's the credit for it."

"Look it up." Perry immediately beckoned Gary to get the devil fruit illustration. What kind of fruit can turn a person into a soul after death, which is like giving him a second life.

"Don't check, this fruit should be the fruit of the underworld." Xia Qi, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said: "A long time ago, someone returned to the present world from the underworld with the help of the fruit of the underworld. When the body was found, the body was already half-decomposed, so people called that person Dade the living dead."

"It's quite powerful, kid." Gray nodded approvingly, "So we need to find his body, right?"

"It's like this in the legend." Xia Qi accepted the compliment without hesitation.

They were discussing about this Mr. Ghost here, while Mr. Ghost on the other side focused on other things.

He floated to Latin's side, tilted his head and said with a smile: "Yo Ho Ho Ho Ho ~ beautiful lady, can you let me admire your panties?"

"what?"

Not only Latin was stunned, but the others also stared at Brook dumbfounded.

Latin turned his eyes, and immediately hid behind Gray pretending to be ashamed and angry, and said aggrievedly: "Ah ~ Captain, you see some perverts are bullying others~"

"I'm very excited to hear your voice." Alder pouted.

Although he looks like a gorgeous woman and wears a red dress, you can tell from his voice that Latin is definitely a real man.

Brook opened his mouth wide and didn't know what to say for a moment. He wasn't interested in men's underwear at all, so finally, he said dryly, "You're really rude."

"Well, if you want to pursue Latin, I support it." Gray touched his chin and said, "But try not to use such a rude way."

"No, I'm actually not interested in men." Brook immediately denied.

"Well, then just pretend I didn't say anything." Gray didn't mind, "Are you going to see your boat? Look for your body or something, we put them all together."

"Yo Ho Ho Ho Ho, I'm sorry, please allow me to say goodbye first." Brooke said goodbye politely, stopped after floating a certain distance, turned around and said, "Excuse me, do you want to come with me?"

It didn't feel like an invitation, more like a beg.

Brooke was not a fool to figure everything out when he saw such a dilapidated barque.

That's why he ran over with Bud, not leaving his companion behind, but not daring to face the corpses one after another.

Gray nodded, "Okay, I'll show you the way."

He stepped forward and came to the deck of the three-masted sailing ship first, "Hey, come with me when you are ready, you should not be so stupid as that."

Rather than questioning, Gray is reminding Brook of what he is up against.

"Excuse me." Brook had heard about this pirate captain, and when he saw him now, he was indeed as young as the newspaper said, but he was much gentler than they imagined.

Gray walked into the cabin first. There was no one there for a long time, and the lighting lamp was broken. He stepped on the creaking wooden boards to a room—the captain's cabin.

"I hope you don't mind." He said to Brooke, "I think they should like this room very much."

"Yes, I think so too." Brook smiled a little, and the past scenes came to his eyes. Unable to let him think about it, Gray opened the door of the captain's cabin.

The dust was flying, and the bones of the dead were neatly placed in the captain's room.

"Uh..." Brooke made a soft sound and floated into the room almost subconsciously.

Gray didn't go in, instead he walked out of the cabin and returned to the warship.

"Captain, where's that guy?" Bud worried.

"You always have to give a man some time to cry alone." Gray said with a smile: "Okay, let's all go to rest now, there is no need to stay here."

"Reggie, will he also become a living dead in the future?" Oden asked curiously.

"No, he'll turn into a living skeleton." Ace said, "Are you scared Oden?"

"How could I be afraid of skeletons?" Mitian raised his chin, "I'm just curious."

"If you're curious, I'll watch it tomorrow." Gray waved his hand, "Be careful if you don't get enough sleep, you won't grow taller."

"Then Reggie's short growth is due to lack of sleep?"

"Tsk, I just need to be a normal person. Who wants to compare with you mutants?" Gray said angrily, and drove everyone away to sleep.

Ace wanted to stay, but was kicked by Gray, and ran back to sleep angrily.

Perry glanced at Zhan Guo, and the latter looked at him without hesitation, showing no emotion.

After everyone left, Gray said to Zhan Guo: "Okay, let's get back to the topic. In fact, I really haven't had any contact with Cyborg in the past five years."

"That's right." Zhan Guo's tone was light, making it clear that he didn't believe Gray's words.

"It's true~ It's just my dad who knows me very well." Gray smiled. He really didn't say anything to Cyborg. After all, after he recovered his memory, he went directly to the new world. How could he easily contact Cyborg.

It was just unexpected that Cyborg seemed to realize that he wanted to do an important thing, and this thing could only be done as a pirate.

"I want to do something big, Warring States." Gray's tone was full of eagerness.

"What exactly do you want to do?" Zhan Guo frowned, no matter what he thought, he couldn't imagine what Gray said.

"You'll find out later."

"How soon?"

"Well, who knows, at least not now, there are still many places that I need to visit." Gray said to Zhan Guo very seriously: "I want to ask you one thing."

Zhan Guo frowned slightly, feeling a bad feeling.

"You can do it." Gray smiled at him, showing his white teeth, looking very sunny, but his words were full of willfulness, "Warring States, I want to escort Lockes to the process of advancing the city, he should find a way to escape, you help me let them go."

"Do you know what you're talking about? Gray, you're just messing around." Warring States seemed to have heard something unbelievable. It was indeed unbelievable. A pirate actually wanted a navy to let the pirate go.

"I always like to mess around." Gray shrugged, still grinning, "He is a bit special, except for him, everyone else can be sent to the city."

"What's so special about Rocks." Sengoku wanted to know, "Because of D?"

"You actually know this~ Hahaha, there is one reason, and more because he has a lot of things I want to know."

"You can torture him now."

"He won't tell me." Gray had no choice but to fix his eyes on Zhan Guo, very sure, "Zhan Guo, you will definitely help me."

I won't!Zhan Guo really wanted to categorically refuse, but he gritted his teeth, but couldn't speak. Finally, he thought of the reason for the refusal, "Let him go, and many innocent people will die in the future. I gave you a chance to transport Adam to save face."

Letting go of a vicious pirate comes with such risks.

Gray blinked. In fact, in the previous life, Lockes was never captured by the navy. Compared with this, even if Lockes is released now, the sacrifice he caused will not be as much as in the previous life.

But knowing the end of the future will bring a heavy sense of responsibility to people.

Gray nodded regretfully, "Forget it, I'm too selfish."

"." Zhan Guo pursed his lips. He didn't mean that, but as a navy, he couldn't violate his duty.

"I really should ask Karp and Zefa." Gray suddenly shouted, "Why didn't they lead the team here?"

"Tsk, I don't know where Garp is going. Zefa is not yet ready to lead a warship to sea." Warring States didn't want to compare with those two guys, especially from Gray's mouth, why did he seem useless.

"Is Zefa still the same? It's really worrying." Gray didn't know the ending of Zefa's last life. He only knew that when he was 42 years old, his family was killed by pirates, and then he became an instructor and trained the next generation of admirals.

After all, he was not familiar with these people at the time. To put it bluntly, when he was still there, everyone was his foil. There was only one genius in the navy, and Gray took it, so he didn't intend to give it to others.

Later, these news were of course hearsay. In that generation of the navy, only Zefa, a naive person, ended up miserable.

"He doesn't need you, a pirate, to worry about him." Sengoku snorted, but still told Gray honestly: "He's promoted very quickly now, instead of worrying about him, you should worry more about yourself."

"Me?" Gray blinked, "So you care about me."

"Tsk, you're thinking too much."