Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 287 Happy Skeleton Gentleman Brooke

In the restaurant, Sanji is preparing meals on the stove, and the usual table of 9 people also took out an extra chair for the incredible guest.Usopp and Chopper, who were holding crosses and other things, were sitting on the couch against the wall, and they were still pointing the cross at the skeleton; except for Luffy, who was sitting next to him, everyone else was sitting quietly. Farther away from him, of course, a certain chick sat between Luffy and Zoro almost semi-forcedly.

"Yohohohoho~~ What a luxurious restaurant and kitchen~~~", the excited bone raised his hands and praised, "This ship is really amazing~~"

Hearing someone praise the Thousand Suns, Franky didn't mind that the other party was a skeleton, so he smiled proudly and said, "Of course, this is a super ship I built~ You have a good eye~~"

"Don't get too close to him, Franky." Sanji said lightly, turning over the frying pan and pouring the dishes onto the plate.

"However, I'm really looking forward to the food~~ I haven't eaten serious food for decades..." Brooke suddenly felt a little emotional. Although his expression could not be seen from the skeleton, he could still hear his heaviness. "I'm so hungry every day that my chest sticks to my back and it's super uncomfortable..." After lying on the table for a while, he suddenly sat up straight, and then opened his shirt to reveal his white ribs, "Although As a skeleton, I have neither a chest nor a back, yohohoho~~~"

"Hahahahaha...", Luffy was directly amused by him, and laughed heartily in the somewhat dull restaurant.

"Because I'm a gentleman, I like the leisurely time of waiting for the meal the most~~", after gracefully tidying up the messy bow tie and clothing due to the previous action, Brooke immediately picked up the knife and fork and tapped excitedly, " eat eat eat eat~~~"

"Eat, eat, eat~~~~", Luffy immediately followed suit, holding a knife and fork, with a bright smile on his face.

After arguing for a while, Brook unceremoniously ordered Sanji in the kitchen, "Chef, please give me milk for drinks~~~"

"It's so noisy, shut up and wait!!"

"Hahaha, so interesting~~~", Luffy, who was amused again, smiled for a while, looked at Brook, and said, "By the way, Holulu..."

"I'm Brooke..." After Brooke politely corrected Luffy, he asked with doubts: "Well, I'm sorry, I don't know your last name~~"

"Me? I'm Luffy~~", finally remembering the topic, Luffy folded his arms and looked at him, "By the way, what the hell are you?"

"You don't know each other at all!!" Sauron, who was driven mad by the idiot captain's words again, roared, completely unclear about how a certain straw hat's head grew.I didn't understand it at all, and as soon as we met, I said that I wanted him to be my partner.

"Calm down, Zoro. Luffy's character is just like this." Encore, who was still very understanding, stretched out his hand to pat a certain green algae, and then said narrowly: "Besides, when you first met Luffy, Didn't he also directly call you a partner?"

"It seems to be too..." Zoro frowned and thought for a while, only to realize that when he first met Luffy, the straw hat guy really wanted him to join his pirate team as soon as he met, and he still didn't introduce himself at all. premise.

"And, he's really interesting~~~", Anke looked at the bone with a smile, and narrowed his scarlet left eye with interest.

Brooke, who trembled inexplicably, looked to the right and then to the left strangely, and then asked suspiciously, "Do you feel a little cold?"

"Is there?" Luffy shook his head without feeling it at all.

"It's an illusion, Mr. Brook~~~", An Ke smiled and narrowed his eyes, and the closed eyelids covered the deep meaning in his eyes.

"Okay, it's done~~", Sanji quickly brought up today's sumptuous dishes, and said with a smile: "I'll talk about getting rid of the bones later, anyway, let's eat first, octopus feast~~"

"Oh! It looks delicious~~", Luffy looked excitedly at the three-layer cake with octopus as the main ingredient in the middle, and greeted Brook on the side: "Hey, Brook, eat more. Sanji cooks the best dishes~~~”

"But compared to my stomach, my heart is more satisfied..." Brooke covered his face and sobbed when he saw the dishes on the table.

Seeing him like this, Sanji was a little shocked, "You..."

Unfortunately, there was not a second of sobbing, and a certain skeleton immediately picked up the knife and fork, and stared eagerly at the plate in front of Robin, "Miss, your portion seems to be more than mine~~ Can you change it with me?? "

Sanji yelled frantically in an instant: "There are too many in the pot!! Eat your own!!!"

So, when everyone was eating.The captain with his mouth full of food began to chat with the guests inarticulately: "#￥@!%#%!@#"

"Is it still in the fish pond just now?? There is such a facility on this ship??"

"@￥#@%@#%￥#@#￥"

"It's such a powerful ship~~I've never seen this kind of ship~~"

"#%@!￥￥%#@"

"Yeah! Please let me visit~~~"

"...", Nami looked at the two people who had a good conversation with shame, completely unable to understand, "Why can I understand..."

After a short meal time, everyone started chatting, and finally knew why Brook could still speak and move even though he was a skeleton.

"The fruit of the underworld?" Nami was a little surprised

"Is it really a devil fruit..." Franky, who had already guessed about the same
"That's the way it is," Brooke, whose face bones and afro's head were full of food residue, nodded, and began to explain the reason for his appearance after drinking and eating, "Actually, I died a few decades ago. once……"

"Wipe your face first." Sanji, who couldn't see it, threw a towel over, "Really, how do you eat to get so dirty..."

After wiping his face according to the words, Brook began to pick his teeth and said: "The so-called fruit of the underworld is the resurrection of the dead, that is, the resurrected person who has been resurrected. It has the incredible ability to give the capable person a second life."

"Resurrected people??" Luffy's eyes flashed with excitement when he heard this.

"Is it possible to bring a person back from death once?" Franky felt a little unbelievable.

"Yes. Ah, I'm sorry, hiccup!" Brooke hiccupped loudly before continuing to say, "And I was a pirate just like you when I was alive. Once, you and I just watched The ship that arrived came to this magical sea with our partners. Unfortunately, we met a powerful colleague. After the battle, our group was wiped out. Naturally, I died too. I always thought The fruit of the underworld is just something that turned me into a landlubber, but on that day, the fruit's ability was revealed. My fruit returned from the underworld to the present world!"

Hearing this life experience like a fantasy story, Lu Fei and the others were shocked and unable to digest.But Enke was unusually calm, and didn't think it was unusual.It's just that she has been staring closely at the two black holes in the skull's eye sockets, her eyes are deep, as if she wants to see what's inside.

"As long as I return to my body immediately, I should be able to revive. But as you can see, this sea of ​​magic is filled with thick fog. I lost my way. Then I wandered in the form of a soul in this thick fog for a year , I finally found my body. But at that time my body had turned into a pile of white bones!! I was so scared that my eyeballs were about to fall out..." After Brooke finished speaking with fear, he immediately put on a cheerful expression of scissorhands He smiled and said, "But I'm a skeleton~~ I don't have eyes~~~~"

Hearing that he couldn't return to his body on time because he was lost, Luffy immediately laughed and said, "It's so stupid, it's about the same as Zoro~~"

The swordsman who was also shot while lying down glanced at Lu Chi No. [-] on the boat, curled his lips and said nothing.

"So it became a talking skeleton?" Frankie folded his hands and looked at the skeleton. "Even if you become a skeleton, you can be resurrected. That's the scary thing about devil fruits."

Sanji shrugged and said, "But the fruit has fulfilled its mission, and you are just a landlubber now. This can be regarded as a curse, right?"

"But if you turn into a skeleton, you usually don't have hair?" Sauron frowned and looked at Brook's thick hair, "Forget about the skeleton, but it's still an afro?"

Hearing this, Brook stretched out his hand to pull his afro, and said a little proudly: "My hair has deep roots~~"

"It's up to you..." Sauron was a little ashamed.

"That is to say, you are a human..., no, you are not a human..." After hearing what happened to him, Usopp finally mustered up the courage to move forward, but he still put the cross in front, "Anyway You're not a monster, are you?"

"Of course not! I'm most afraid of monsters! If I see monsters, I'll cry!"

Usopp and Chopper breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the fear was not fake.

"Are you lying, and you said you are most afraid of monsters??" Nami looked disdainful, raised the mirror in her hand to Brook standing there, and said coldly: "Have you ever looked in the mirror and seen yourself? ?"

"Ah! Don't! Don't look at me in the mirror!! I'm most afraid of looking in the mirror!!", Brooke immediately frantically tried to block his own mirror, turned his head and didn't want to look at the mirror at all, as if he couldn't accept himself in the mirror.

"What's the matter??", Usopp turned his head to look at the mirror, and shouted in shock the next second: "What's the matter?? Why can't I see you?!"

In the bright mirror, there are only Usopp and the decorations in the restaurant, and Brook, who is facing the mirror, has no shadow at all.

"Really??", Nami wanted him to look at her face, but unexpectedly learned that he did not appear in the mirror at all, and immediately hid in the farthest corner in fear, shrinking Standing up and looking at him, "A vampire??"

Unexpectedly, the mutated Sauron, Sanji, Robin and Franky immediately became vigilant, while the frightened Usopp and Chopper hid beside Nami.

Encore drank tea calmly, while Luffy was excited as if he had discovered a new world, "So handsome~~~"

"Let's understand first~~, isn't it a matter of course that the mirror didn't reflect it?" Anke put down his teacup and said lightly, pointing to the clearness under Brook's feet under the surprised eyes of his partners, "He can't even see the shadow. No, how could there be a reflection in the mirror?"

"Ah!! Really!!", Chopper's eyes widened in fright, "What the hell are you??"

"Alas..." Brooke sighed when he saw that they realized this, sat back on the chair and started drinking tea with his legs crossed.

Anke narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with a light smile, "Mr. Brook seems to have gone through a lot of hardships. If you don't mind, tell us? After all, you scared them a lot~"

"Oh, it's hard to describe everything..." Brooke sighed, "I've been floating in this sea for too long. It's completely different from being a skeleton and having no shadow. My shadow was killed by a person a few years ago. The man took it."

"The shadow was taken away?" Robin was a little surprised, after all, she hadn't heard that the shadow could be taken away.

Sauron has calmed down to the point where he can accept all the incredible things, "Since you have become a skeleton and can walk, nothing can surprise me now."

"Moreover, once the shadow is taken away, it means that there is no way to live in a place with sunlight. Once I am illuminated by the sun, I can't live. Now in this sea of ​​​​thick fog, I finally survived by avoiding the sun. "

"Oh~~", Anke propped his chin and looked at the skeleton with interest, "What would happen if you were exposed to the sun?"

"Once exposed to direct sunlight, my body would be reduced to ashes."

"Turned into ashes?!", the unexpected consequences made everyone stunned. They didn't expect that even the sun couldn't touch it after there was no shadow.

"Well. I saw that with my own eyes." Brooke lowered his head, telling the scene he saw with a little fear, "After being taken away from the shadow, I went to a sunny town, of course , I avoided the sun completely. However, in front of my eyes, a man whose shadow was also taken away rushed out, but within a few seconds of coming under the sun, he howled and turned into ashes.

In just a few seconds, that person was left with only a pile of clothes proving that he once existed.Witnessing all this with my own eyes is really a creepy fact, although I am a skeleton without hair..." Brook trembled, and then began to explain the principle, "Shadows are cast on the ground through light, is there any Same thing with shadows.Things like mirrors and cameras, which show objects through reflection, cannot reflect my body.In other words, I am an existence rejected by the light, and my companions are all dead..."

"It sounds like you are really miserable." Sanji looked at the white skeleton with some sympathy.

"Even so, I survived tenaciously. A pile of white bones survived~~~" Brooke, who didn't look sad at all, raised his hands cheerfully, "I'm dead, Brooke with only bones~ ~ yo ho ho ho ho ~~~~”

Seeing him like this, Sanji was a little ashamed, "You are really cheerful~~"

"Yohooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... it? In the fog-shrouded dark sea, all my companions died, and I was alone guarding the big ship with a broken rudder. I drifted like this for decades. I was really lonely, lonely and scared, and I really wanted to die... …

But longevity is good, people can bring joy..." After he had finished murmuring his sentimental words, Brook immediately smiled optimistically and cheerfully, as if he wasn't the one who was sad a few seconds ago, "For me, You are my joy! !If I still have tears, I will cry happily now! ! "

Everyone just watched the emotional bones talking in silence, and didn't interrupt.

"Did you invite me to join you just now? I'm really happy, thank you very much." Returning to the topic at the beginning, Brook bowed gratefully to Luffy before expressing his true wishes, "But actually I must be rejected."

(End of this chapter)