One Piece: Reborn and Skypiean

119

Chapter 119

Title: It won't work at least not on me.

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The mat!

Amon put the tea cup on the table.

Right now, he was sitting on the creepy old ship with Yona beside him and the skeleton talking in front of him.

The ship was in a foggy area with nothing else around it. But neither Amon nor Yona seemed to be bothering about it.

Amon got here after wandering the sea for several hours. It was possible to find him even in this grand line since there were already quite famous rumors about this misty place.

Yona had a frown on her face when she saw that skeleton. "My lord, is this an evil spirit?"

In this misty sea, Amon had an unexpected encounter.

"Hoo!" The skeleton jumped. "E-Spirit Evil?! You mean Ghost?! A-Where?!"

Amon laughed at this. He doesn't mind some humor once in a while. "He's kidding, Brook."

After calming down the skeleton, Brook whom he had just met a few minutes ago, Amon patted Yona on the head. "Well, now, he's not an evil spirit. I think it's the effect of the Rise-Rise fruit."

Brook laughs. "Yoho! That's right, you're quite knowledgeable. It was indeed the effect of the Revive-Revive fruit, it revived me after I died." Brook shed tears. "Ahh, you are my first meeting who is not afraid of me. I'm so happy, yo-ho-ho!"

Amon laughed with her.

Yona was suddenly interested. "Fruit that brings people back to life? Like the one in our legend?"

Amon shook his head. "No, the one in Birkan legend is not this one. It's not the devil's fruit, but something.. scientific(?)."

Even Amon was at a loss as to whether this was scientific or not. What is in the Birkan myth is clearly just a myth, and nothing more. Even if it's something more, it doesn't matter at all.

Amon then looked at Brook. "Then Mr Brook, what do you think of joining me? I am the King of a Kingdom, an Emperor of the Sea. Although I assume you are not familiar with the term. I'm looking for a strong man, even though I need a musician."

Brook suddenly became emotional. "Yohoho, I've been stuck here for 50 years. I'll thank you if you'll accept me."

Brook bowed slightly as Yona looked at him with narrowed eyes. 'I must be careful of evil spirits.'

"But" Brook continued. "It's a pity I can't leave this foggy area."

"Why is that?" Amon pretended not to know.

"My shadow was stolen by a big-bellied man. A shadow is the second soul of a creature, if I go out in the sun without it I will be burned alive by the sun."

"Is that also the devil fruit's ability?"

"Yes" Brook answered Yona's question.

"Without taking my shadow, I can't join you. I'm really sorry."

Brook apologizes while Amon smiles reassuringly. However, he frowned internally.

'This is supposed to happen 2 and a half years from now. But Brook's meeting Gecko Moria now? Butterfly effect...'

Amon just sighed. It was not something bad, but rather, it must have been due to his presence.

"Do you know who that is?" Amon pretended not to know anymore. "Bad man I mean."

Brook fell silent, searching for his memory. "Moria Gecko...? Yep! His name is Gecko Moria..."

Amon put on a surprised face. "Oh, now I understand. He is one of the 7 Warlords, a newly formed system without your presence."

Amon had already chatted with Brook and Brook talked about how he roamed the sea for so many years.

continued Amon. "He was someone who ate the Shadow-Shadow fruit, I can see what you mean by 'my shadow stolen'. That is the power of the fruit. Taking a shadow from him wasn't too difficult, but it wasn't easy either."

Brook nodded. "I know it's hard, I've experienced it myself. But I still plan to do my second experiment today, yo-ho!!"

Amon smile. "You don't have to, I have business with Gecko Moria, when I'm done, you'll get your shadow back."

Brook frowned with his absent burrow. 'I'll just get my shadow back..? Wait, he was planning to kill her?!'

It made sense that his shadow would come back even with him not being there only if Moria died.

After thinking for a moment, he sighed. 'Besides, it's none of my business, even I'm a pirate who does bad things. Even so, here the bad guy seems to be Moria.'

Still, "I can't let you do this for me. It goes against-"

"Quiet, it's okay. I'll be done in half an hour, if I fail you can come to help. You did say you had stormed there once, but seeing you here, it must have meant you lost" Amon said. "Then consider it a favor from me, your future leader, because you decided to join me. I need a musician."

Amon gave a charming smile. "Then I'll see you in 30 minutes."

Amon did not teleport but flew at an astonishing speed. The teleportation would create a flash of lightning, thus creating a light that would then injure Brook without a shadow.

'If subordination doesn't work-no. Only if the subordination does not succeed will I take the fruit from today.' This is the line Amon drew. 'Now that I need strong people right away, I don't have enough time to extract the fruits then give them to someone who is under me and then train them. It'll be too long and troublesome.'

Even though that's the case, there can be variables. Like the fruit of the Shadow... Gecko Moria doesn't deserve it.

zzzz~

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After flying away from Brook, Amon expands his Observation and searches for Thriller Bark island. Its 300 km range easily captures floating islands as it can only hide in foggy areas.

He teleported at the top of Thriller Bark and looked at him with glowing red eyes. Amon is looking for a certain person.

'Phantom Princess, Perona.'

He found it after a second.

Holders of one of the OPest, Hollow-Hollow. With his ability, he was truly terrifying. He might even manage to defeat the Emperor, although certain people would be immune to 'depressed ghosts', like pessimists. People who are already depressed cannot be more depressed.

After examining her, Amon teleported into her room secretly.

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"hm hm hm~"

A pink haired girl was playing with a half-transparent white creature, a ghost!

The girl was Perona, a subordinate of Gecko Moria.

Amon will kill Gecko Moria today, Amon is useless to him. But other people along with the Person are different. Killing them would not benefit him, so he would only recruit them.

'I want to take over the world, sign my name as the leader of this planet on a space station on another planet. For that, I need strong people below me. They don't have to be super loyal, fear alone is enough.'

If they say 'No', he will then proceed to brainwashing.

While Perona lay on his stomach bed, Amon walked from behind him.

He placed his hand on his shoulder silently.

"Aahh! Who's that?!" Out of annoyance, the girl turned around. "Asalom, how many times have I told you not to sneak into my room–?!?!?"

Perona's eyes grew as his brain caught the situation. Who sneaks in, isn't Absalom? Except for someone he doesn't know?!

'Killer...!'

The moment that thought flashed through his mind, he immediately prepared for battle. He pointed his palm at the killer.

"!"

A ghostly figure came out of Perona's hands and rushed forward.

It was a ghost that would drain the desires of anyone who came into contact with it, making them extremely negative and depressed about themselves. Everyone would be affected by it, even if they had the Conqueror Haki.

Ghost passes through 'killer', Amon's body.

There is a way to defend against this ghost. As long as the person is depressed, they will be fine.

"Meh" Amon patted his chest.

She. is fine. A depressed soul couldn't be more depressed, could it?

"Don't bother, it won't work." Amon stretches his body while the shocked Perona starts spamming the ghosts.

Shoo Shoo Shoo!

None of them worked, in fact, some of the ghosts even became depressed!

«...★...»

On Brook, it's only 50 seconds since Amon left.

Brook was surprised. "Geez, he's so fast. I didn't even see it, yo-ho!"

He then slowly turned his head towards Yona. "Then...will you let me see your underwear–kyaaha!"

Before she could finish her words, Yona's hair started to float in the air as they rushed towards her.

"As I thought! You are an evil spirit, or what kind of man would like to see*********woman?!"

Yona's hair was about to catch him, but Brook barely got out.

"Yoho..I'm sorry, yoohoo!"

Brook starts running while Yona chases after him.

"I'm going to drive you out, evil spirit!"