To the end of the sea [One Piece]

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They held a party to celebrate the return of Usopp and Robin, as well as the addition of Franky and the new ship Sonny.

Eina felt a chill in her heart while drinking.

She frowned and stopped, looking to the horizon.

I wonder if Ace has found Blackbeard...

But if her memory is confused, then what she saw in her dream may not be real.

She sighed and took a sip of wine.

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"Ena!" Luffy shouted from the deck, "Sanji told you to come down to eat!"

The silver-haired girl poked her head out of the library at the stern of the ship and responded, closing the book and walking to the platform on the top of the second floor.

She stretched out, smelled the fragrance from the orange trees, and looked at the sea.

This is the highest platform besides Zoro's gym and observation deck, and is connected to the library and bathroom behind it. Ena likes to run here when she has nothing to do.

She climbed down from the ladder to the dining room on the second floor and poked her head in. The blond man was busy in the kitchen.

"Ena! Reading for a long time is bad for your eyes. Let's have some drinks." He raised his head and said happily.

She walked into the restaurant and sat on the outside of the open kitchen counter, like sitting at the bar of a bar.

Eina held her chin up and watched him skillfully prepare the drink. The cuffs of his shirt were rolled up to his forearms, revealing his smooth muscles.

"Do you want to wait for me here?" Sanji tilted his head and glanced at her, "You can also go to the aquarium on the first floor. Miss Nami and Miss Robin are both there. I will use the lift to send them down after I'm done. of."

"No, I'll go later." She said with a smile.

So for a while, neither of them spoke, only the shaking sound coming from his hand.

She had never felt that this elegant and elegant man had such a sense of security for her.

Even in the memory fragments about their past, she was protecting him, comforting him, or the two of them depended on each other.

But as he held her in his arms, he told her not to be afraid.

Just leave everything to us, just leave everything to me.

"Dreams and lovers." He interrupted her wandering and pushed a drink with a light blue color in front of her.

Sanji placed the other two orange drinks on the teleporter and shouted downstairs.

Eina picked up the drink and sipped lightly.

"It tastes really good," she said with a smile. "Although it's sweet in the mouth, it's sour in the aftertaste."

When she lowered her head and looked again, she found that the color had changed to dark blue. There were stimulating bubbles in her mouth, a mixture of sweet and sour that bloomed on her taste buds.

"Love is like a storm." Sanji smiled as he wiped the bottle of wine. "A blend of sweet and sour - sometimes it may even be an adventure."

She looked at the bubbles rising at the bottom of the dark blue cup with some emotion.

Love is a dream that never ends.

She didn't understand why she had such thoughts.

It seemed that she had loved someone before, but in the end she only left a feather in her heart lightly.

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"Ena! Sanji!" Luffy called them again, "I caught a very strange barrel!"

They came to the deck and took a look and found that it was an offering bucket with the words "sacrifice to the sea god" written on it.

Luffy decided to open it and eat the food inside, only to have a red flash/bomb shoot out of the barrel.

Eina felt alarmed. This wooden barrel is like a signal flare. Have they entered some kind of sea area and been confirmed by someone?

Before she had time to think about it, Nami ran towards the platform.

"Everyone! Get ready! The storm will come in five minutes!"

They raised their heads and saw a clear sky.

But no one would question their navigator's predictions. Ena immediately ran to the jib mast and lowered the sail with Sanji.

Just when they had finished making preparations without stopping, a heavy rain suddenly came.

Dark clouds came over, the water surged rapidly, and the wind and waves prevented them from going any further.

The sail was useless. Fortunately, Franky had transformed the Wanli Sunshine into a more powerful sailboat. They furled the sail and activated Soldier Dock System No. 0.

The powerful outer wheel pushed forward against the wind and waves, and finally passed the heavy rain.

They looked at the sea area they were in, and Zoro frowned.

"What's going on here? It's not even night yet."

There was a gloomy and dark atmosphere of terror, and the visual range could only be maintained at a few meters.

"This is the ghost sea area I mentioned before." Eina looked up and said, "I wonder if there is a ghost ship."

"Ena, don't talk nonsense!!" Usopp hugged the mast tightly, "Wait, why do you all seem to know this!"

"Because you were not here when we discussed it before." Eina shrugged, "14 ships have disappeared."

"What what!!" Usopp hugged Chopper who was also scared.

Nami walked to Eina with trembling legs and tried to find shelter.

Then they actually saw the ship appear in front of them.

It was a ship that was twice as tall as the Wanli Sunshine. At first, it was just a vague, huge black shadow, but as it got closer, its appearance was revealed.

The hull and sails had been damaged for an unknown number of years, and an eerie, long voice was humming a song.

"Yohohoho~~Yohohoho~"

Nami, Usopp and Chopper let out a scream.

"That's a ghost singing! Don't listen! You will be cursed!!" Usopp covered his ears and shouted, and Chopper cried with him.

Then...a skeleton with an exploding head appeared on the side of the ship.

I have to say that in an extremely dark and scary atmosphere, suddenly a face with only bones looking at you from top to bottom is quite scary. The skeleton also obviously saw them, and the two sides looked at each other and slowly changed their angles.

"Hey, you just heard it! The skeleton is singing!" Luffy's surprise turned into excitement, "Let's go and see! It's so fun!!"

"What are you thinking, Luffy!!" Nami yelled, "I'm not going!"

Without saying a word, Sauron took out a bundle of wood chips and held it in his hand: "Let's draw lots."

"What are you talking about?! Whoever wants to go can just go! Why draw lots!" Usopp protested in horror.

Zoro shrugged in the direction of the railing: "Are you sure?"

Everyone except the three of them stood on the railing and eager to try!

If those who really want to go go, then the three of them who don't want to go will be left alone on the boat.

Nami, Usopp and Chopper immediately compromised.

In the end, lots were drawn to decide that two people would accompany Luffy on the ghost ship.

"Ena." Nami whispered in her ear before drawing the lot, "Please, if I get it, can you switch with me?"

"Wouldn't it be meaningless to draw lots like that?" Eina coaxed her, "It'll be okay, at least Luffy will definitely be there."

"I'm really scared, Ena..."

She looked at Nami's trembling hands and sighed inwardly.

The end result is Ena and Sanji.

"Yeah!!!" Nami, Usopp and Chopper cheered as if they had survived the disaster, "Fortunately it wasn't me!"

So Ena and Sanji walked towards the rope ladder of the ghost ship.

"I'm talking about you." Sanji lowered his head and whispered in her ear, "Is it really okay to spoil Miss Nami like this?"

Ena blinked innocently: "What are you talking about, Sanji?"

The blond man's ears suddenly turned red and he turned his head: "I know...I know, just pretend I didn't say it!"

Don't suddenly use that foul face to act cute!

Eina chuckled lightly and moved the piece of wood between her fingers.

Gambling skills are quite useful, actually.

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They walked onto the boat, and Ena frowned as she looked at everything in the dilapidated boat.

The skeleton they had seen earlier appeared before them.

"Yohohoho! I'm so sorry!" The tall frame actually acted at a loss. "I just passed by without saying hello. I was so excited. I haven't seen a living person in many years!"

He was wearing an old-fashioned dress, a top hat on his afro, and a pair of classic square-toed shoes.

Although Ena was not afraid, it still opened her eyes to see a skeleton talking and being polite while holding a black tea cup in her lifetime.

After introducing himself, the skeleton saw Ena and actually walked towards her and bowed.

Eina raised her head slightly and watched him say something in the most polite tone that made Sanji rush over and beat him up.

"Beautiful lady, can you let me see your underwear?"

"Die the pervert skull!" Sanji kicked him away.

Luffy laughed and chatted with him for a long time. In the end, the black-haired boy put his hands on his hips and said enthusiastically: "Hey, you can be my partner!"

silence.

"Yes."

silence.

Then everyone burst out with a "Eh!!?", including the ship guard team watching from the opposite side.

Even Ena was surprised. This is the first companion who has been invited so hastily, and he is also the one who agreed most happily.

Then the skeleton followed them back to the Wanli Sunshine.

Usopp had found a complete exorcism suit from nowhere and put it on himself, holding the cross and chanting.

Luffy happily invited him directly into the ship to eat with them.

There is almost no better word to describe the whole process than baffling.

During the dinner, the skeleton introduced himself and said his name was Brooke.

Ena has been looking hard at the clothes he is wearing, and somehow they feel familiar.

This style seems to be unique somewhere...?

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After eating, Brooke finally introduced his origins to them.

He is actually a resurrected person who ate the underworld fruit and died once decades ago. Originally, he could be resurrected when he returned to his body, but because his soul got lost in this misty sea, when he found his body, he found that it had become a pile of bones.

So he could only live with a skeleton body.

"So you are not a monster?" Usopp was slightly relieved after hearing that he was a devil fruit user.

"Of course not! I'm very afraid of monsters! If I see a monster, I will cry!" The skeleton was so scared that he waved his hands repeatedly.

"You said you're afraid of monsters, so why don't you look in the mirror?" Nami held up a mirror to Brooke's face.

Usopp and Chopper came over to take a look, and this time they jumped three feet high in shock. They raised the cross tremblingly again and shouted: "You still said you are not a monster!! We are in the mirror-"

"I can't see your face at all!!!"

"Speaking of which, you don't even have a shadow!!"

The atmosphere that had calmed down after just talking suddenly solidified to a freezing point.

"No..." Brooke took a sip of black tea and said slowly, "My resurrection and losing my shadow are two different things."

"My shadow was taken away by a person." Brooke said, "The person whose shadow was taken away cannot survive in the sun. I once watched another person who lost his shadow disappear in the sun. So I hid in Living an elusive life in this sunless sea, I haven’t seen any living people or sunlight for a long time.”

"Who took away your shadow!" Luffy stood up angrily, "Tell me and I will help you get it back!"

Brook looked at Luffy blankly: "You are such a good person...but I can't tell you."

"Is the enemy too powerful?" Franky asked.

"Yes... I can't let you who I just met die for me." He smiled, "Besides, to be honest, I don't know where that man is, nor do I know who I am before the end of my second life. Can I see him?"

"But if I see him one day, I will definitely fight to the death with him."